Posts Tagged ‘Canada’
The Pursuit Of Beaver Opened Up Canada
CANADA’S Senator Nicole Eaton wants the polar bears to replace the beaver as the country’s emblem.
Said New Democratic Party MP Pat Martin. ”
“Polar bears are cool but the beaver played a pivotal role in the history of Canada. It was the relentless pursuit of beaver that opened the great Northwest.”
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Posted: 31st, October 2011 | In: Politicians | Comment
Men Who Sent Thousands Of Messages In Bottles Receives Thousands Of Replies
HAROLD Hackett has over ten years set sail over 4,800 messages in bottles from Prince Edward Island, Canada.
Every one of his missives asks that the finder replies via more conventional means.
Since 1996 Hackett has received over 3,100 responses.
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Posted: 27th, September 2011 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Face Of Lord Voldemort Forms In The Skies Over New Brunswick: Cloud Video Of The Day
OVER the fields of New Brunswick, Canada, a face forms in the clouds. Is is Lord Voldemort? Dr Spock? Tony Blair?
Denis Farmer grabs his camera. From his yard in Grand Falls, Canada, he records the face in the skies looming large.
Says Farmer:
“Face! It’s a face! Holy frig!’
Posted: 5th, August 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Girl Rips Out Brother’s Tooth Using Motorbike And String (Video)
YOU will now see a young Anna Nicole Smith rip out a tooth from the mouth of a young Shane Warne…in Canada…using a motorbike, garden furniture and a piece of a string…
Posted: 17th, July 2011 | In: TV & Radio | Comment (1)
Canada Marks US Independence Day With Duke And Duchess Of Cambridge: America Gets Sarah Ferguson (Photos)
ON July 4, the day America celebrates the death of monarchy, nepotism, divine rule, taxation without representations and the rise of Kennedys, Clintons, hanging chads and Bushes, the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge were wowing the Canadians.
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Posted: 5th, July 2011 | In: Royal Family | Comment (1)
UK Bans Circus Animals: Canada Shoots Dead Cute, Tame Bear Cub
HURRAH! So cheers the Independent from its front page. “Victory in the campaign to ban circus animals.”
MPs of all parties unanimously backed a ban and the Government signalled that it would introduce one, ending forever the days of lions, tigers, elephants and other wild animals in the big top.
Lions and tigers can keep their jobs presenting death and sex shows on the BBC, but they will do so in the grasses of Africa, Spearmint Rhino or wherever it is that circus animals go to be wild. Their handlers can get work herding cats.
So. Good news. And mindful of it we look at the killing of a black bear cub in Canada.
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Posted: 24th, June 2011 | In: Reviews | Comments (2)
Canadian Drivers Encouraged To Kill Schoolgirl In Sick Video Game
A 3D optical illusion of a girl chasing ball across a road is to feature in the street outside the École Pauline Johnson Elementary School in West Vancouver, Canada.
By the illusion is a sign declaring:
“You’re probably not expecting kids to run into the road.”
The aim is to make drivers drop their speed. The image appears when the approaching vehicle is 30 metres away. If travelling at 30km/h, the driver has plenty of time to stop. When within 30 meters of the image, the girl disappears.
Indeed, he might stop so fast that the car behind goes hurtling into the back of him, perhaps squashing a cyclist between the two vehicles
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Posted: 8th, September 2010 | In: Technology | Comment (1)
The Queen, The Duke And The Canada Dancing Girls – In Pictures
HER Majesty the Queen is in Canada. The Duke of Edinburgh is also there. They get to meet lots of soldiers and knobs and, occasionally, a local. The media follows. And picture 4 gives you an idea of what life is like for a hack on the gand tour. Pictures of the Queen’s tour of Canada now follow:
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Posted: 2nd, July 2010 | In: Royal Family | Comment
Earth Hour: Canadian Environment Minister’s Cat Catches Fire
EARTH Hour in Canada and heat and light is being provided by a Canadian minister’s cat, which is, helpfully, on fire. B.C. environment minister Barry Penner says Ranger the cat is ablaze.
Penner kept the lights off and put out the light. But that smell:
“We thought about using the fan but we couldn’t do it,” said Penner. They opted instead to open windows to air out the house without using any electricity.
And Gaia breathes in…
The London Bar That Sprays Drinkers With A Mist Of Alcohol
IN the Tlicho aboriginal community of Behchoko, Canada, locals have voted to ban alcohol from their community.
In a plebiscite held Wednesday, 256 voters supported the alcohol ban, while 237 voted against it. The plebiscite asked residents if “the consumption, possession, purchase sale and transport of liquor be prohibited” in the community, located about 95 kilometres north of Yellowknife.
In Canada no one can hear you scream. Bansturbation is rife.
Meanwhile in Endland, where everyone is screaming all the time. In the Alcoholic Architecture bar, London:
Adults are often reminded to drink
responsibly but customers entering a new cocktail bar where they are
literally enveloped in a mist of alcohol are warned to breathe
responsibly.
Just 40 minutes inside the venue – which
delivers an intoxicating vapour of gin and tonic – will leave you
feeling slightly merry.
Punters are also advised to don special
protective suits as they enter the walk-in cocktail to avoid going home
smelling like a brewery.To complement the whiff of G&T the bar is decorated with giant
limes and massive straws to make visitors feel as if they are inside
the drink.
The experience is further enhanced by a special soundtrack featuring the noise of liquid being poured over ice cubes.
Both venues are, of course, uttely horrible places, locals for those who crave boundaries and are unable to appreciate free will…
Posted: 17th, April 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Bus Driver Clubs Fake Seal To Death
IN Halifax, Canada, a bus driver is being suspended with pay while Metro Transit investigates why he “jumped out of his bus and used a stick to beat a toy seal being used as a prop by anti-seal hunt protesters”.
Says Metro Transit general manager Pat Soanes:
“This behaviour is unacceptable.”
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Posted: 17th, March 2009 | In: Strange But True | Comment
National Kick a Ginger Day Replaced By Kill A Kenny Day
IT’S National Kick a Ginger Day in Canada.
Says one parent at St. Francis High School, Calgary:
“It’s worse than bullying. It’s prejudice . . . it’s not just ‘kick a red head today,’ it’s ‘kick them tomorrow,’ ‘kick them at a party.’ It goes on and on.”
Red-head. Ginger. Auburn. Compare and contrast. And does the one-thread rule apply?
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Posted: 23rd, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (13)
You’ll Believe A Fat Canadian Can Fly
IN Canada it just got a lot harder to book an airline ticket. The planes are full – to bursting:
Obese people have the right to two seats for the price of one on flights within Canada, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled on Thursday.
The high court declined to hear an appeal by Canadian airlines of a decision by the Canadian Transportation Agency that people who are “functionally disabled by obesity” deserve to have two seats for one fare.
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Posted: 21st, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment (1)
In Canada Everyone Can Hear You Scream
IN Canda everyone can hear your scream. Canadian students are being told what to talk about:
“Queen’s University in Kingston, Ont., has hired six students whose jobs as “dialogue facilitators” will involve intervening in conversations among students in dining halls and common rooms to encourage discussion of such social justice issues as race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, ability and social class…
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Posted: 19th, November 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (2)
Call Me An Australian Paedophile And We’ll Split The Winnings
THE District Court Judge in Australia hears that when the man’s daughter answered the door, the grandmother told her:
“You know your dad’s a paedophile – a complete stranger came up to me in the street and told me.”
The man, the grandfather of child in a custody and access dispute, launches defamation proceedings.
Judge Gibson awards him $30,000 in compensation.
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Posted: 22nd, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comment
Man Killed By Parents’ Headstone
TO remember in our prayers:
A 77-year-old man died in an accident at the Saint-Gregoire cemetery in Buckingham Monday evening.
Local police said the man had gone to work on his parents’ headstone.
“It appears he moved the stone and was digging a hole around the foundation when the concrete block fell on his back,” said Const. Isabelle Poirier.
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Posted: 16th, October 2008 | In: Strange But True | Comments (4)
Noel Gallagher Supports Global Warming And So Should You
NOEL Gallagher, the Oasis cretive force and stage diver, considers global warming and opines:
“I think global warming is brilliant.”
And we should listen. Over in Canada:
Dozens of prominent Quebec artists, scientists and media personalities joined about 60 environmental and social groups yesterday to launch a vast campaign to pressure Quebec’s Liberal government to cancel plans to refurbish the province’s only nuclear reactor.
David Suzuki beats the traffic to tell everyone:
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Posted: 10th, October 2008 | In: Celebrities | Comment
David Suzuki Runs On Diesel
DAVID SUZIKI is an environmentalist. He looks like a cross between David Ballamy, Rolf Harris and Burt Kwouk.
He’s on tour. He’s on the road:
Winnipeg Sun columnist Tom Brodbeck tells us:
I notice David Suzuki himself didn’t “walk the talk” when he did his 40-city, rock star tour of Canada last year.
Remember that one? The chief frog counter driving all over hell’s half-acres in his own private diesel tour bus?
That’s right. Not a train or a hybrid vehicle as his foundation wants everybody else to travel in.
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Posted: 4th, October 2008 | In: Reviews | Comment (1)
The Trig Palin Death Cult
VIA Hot Air and Rachel Lucas, Canadian Dr Andre Lalonde has “concerns” about Sarah Palin’s son Trig Palin not being aborted.
Yeah. It’s the Trig Palin death cult. You gotta have a death cult:
Dr. Andre Lalonde, executive vice president of the Society of Obstetricians and Gynecologists in Ottawa, worries that Palin’s now renowned decision may cause abortions in Canada to decline as other women there and elsewhere opt to follow suit.
He says not every woman is prepared to deal with the consequences of Down babies, who have developmental delays, some physical difficulties and often a shortened lifespan.
Lalonde says his primary concern is that women have the choice of abortion and that greater public awareness of women making choices like Palin to complete a pregnancy and give birth to their genetically-abnormal baby could be detrimental and confusing to the women and their families.
“The worry is that this will have an implication for abortion issues in Canada,” Lalonde tells the Globe and Mail.
Any American too stupid to understand will be too stupid to care…
Posted: 11th, September 2008 | In: Politicians | Comments (4)
