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May 19, 2008

Tibet supporters demonstrated outside the Chinese consulate in Toronto yesterday, marching with the Tibetan Freedom Torch, which is supposed to be the symbolic opposite to the Olympic torch. Which doesn't make sense, because how can a torch be the opposite of another torch? Shouldn't it have been a large bowl of water instead? The Victoria Day weekend produced record fatalities, with eight dead as of Sunday night. The OPP stated that they were not......

Continue Reading "Tibet Protesters Protest, Transgendered Get Health Coverage, And Russia Gets Back At Us For '72"

May 13, 2008

WestJet and Porter Airlines both added fuel surcharges to their ticket prices, because it turns out jet fuel is getting more expensive what with, you know, oil prices and all. So obviously this means that you should plan your expensive, environmentally wasteful trip sooner rather than later, when all the gas runs out and the only airline left is the Gyro Captain from The Road Warrior. The company head of Taser International told a......

Continue Reading "Plane Ticket Prices Rising, TSX Likewise Rising, And Nothin's Safer Than Tasers!"

May 5, 2008

A ten-year-old Toronto girl with a lemonade stand is more than three-quarters of the way to raising $100,000 for heart and stroke research. For purposes of comparison, when I was ten years old, I really liked riding my bike. Former Liberal MP Charles Caccia died of a heart attack on Saturday. The highly respected MP represented Davenport for approximately seven thousand years and was both a former Minister of Labour and Minister of the Environment.......

Continue Reading "Lemonade Girl Makes Everyone Else Feel Inadequate; RIP Charles Caccia; and Take That, Latvia!"

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