Oh for the love of (hr1$7 already !! WTF are people thinking (or maybe I should ask what they’re smoking) when they answer questions about what defines Canada? A piece of foliage is the number one thing that defines Canada? …… closely followed by a sport where people strap pieces of metal on their feet and fight over a round black thing with sticks?

Fµ(k m3 g3nt£¥ w1th 4 £0ng h4nУ3Ð w1r3 brµ$h — we are doomed.

A Saturday Calgary Herald editorial asks “What’s up with voter apathy?”, states that there are few defensible reasons for not going to the polls, and laments the fact that fewer than 25% of eligible voters put Stelmach in his majority position of power. In my opinion there are a multitude of very defensible reasons for not going to the polls, first and foremost among them being, “maybe they just came to their senses“, immediately followed by, “what’s the point?“

– even the acts of religious stupidity sanctioned by their Supreme Court

In a decision regarding a girl who was traumatized by a church exorcism to the point of self-mutilation and post-traumatic stress disorder Justice David Medina writing for the majority said “Religious practices that might offend the rights or sensibilities of a non-believer outside the church are entitled to greater latitude when applied to an adherent within the church,“

A military cover up, a coup, and Sharia law.

The winner of the Stageleft “Hyperbole of the Zillenium” prize goes by an enormous margin to Right Girl, who scooped 32% of the vote with her paen to Mark Steyn, and her poignant description of saluting ovaries.

The Canadian military is being criticized by a UN investigator for a lack of accountability for civilian deaths in Afghanistan, where more than 200 civilians have been killed by international military forces this year, a recent report suggests.

If CSIS is responsible for collecting, monitoring, and analyzing intelligence on threats to Canada’s national security what is it doing monitoring domestic Aboriginal rights protests?

House Republicans lost three recent elections when customary campaign themes failed to sway voters and their candidates could not overcome the “negative perception of the national party,” according to an internal review that underscores the potential for widespread losses this fall.

In a what many see as a final desperate bid to ensure a legacy more positive than hundreds of thousands of dead Iraqi’s, millions of homeless Iraqi refugees, untold hundreds of thousands of the maimed, crippled, orphaned, and the widowed, and, of course embracing torture, US president George W. Bush today developed a heavy French Canadian accent and started hanging out with biker chicks.

Kids from Nakasuk Elementary School in Iqaluit headed out for a picnic at the river yesterday and got a bit more excitement than they bargained for… fortunately there’s no shortage of people with guns in Iqaluit so there’s no bad news to report.

Simply not believable.

Here’s the moment you’ve been waiting for - your opportunity to vote for the most hilariously overblown, hysterically exaggerated description of the BC Human Rights/MacLeans Tribunal.

The findings of the WorldPublicOpinion.org poll put the United States alongside countries like Russia, Egypt and the Ukraine and lagging far behind allies like Great Britain, Spain and France in how its citizens view torture.

It seems that both the Barack Obama and the John McCain campaigns have got themselves into a wee spot of bother - oddly enough, for speaking the truth.

I see no end of no smoking signs on coffee shop windows that happen to have an overhang that is large enough that the city considers it “inside” being ignored by the management of the coffee shops, their patrons, and people walking down the street — good on them all I say.