Got those Budget-Shoe Blues
![As per tradition, Canada's Finance Minister Jim Flaherty buys new shoes for delivering the Budget: steel toed to make it easier to give charities the boot! [The Conservative Govt. has threatened to pull charitable status from some environmental groups.]](https://hungdrawnandcultured.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/1002201409022014.jpg)
As per tradition, Canada’s Finance Minister Jim Flaherty buys new shoes for delivering the Budget: steel toed to make it easier to give charities the boot! [The Conservative Govt. has threatened to pull charitable status from some environmental groups.]
Black Out!
Media Mogul Conrad Black, convicted and imprisoned for fraud, was ousted from the Order Of Canada and told to return the insignia.
Congratulations Alice Munro!
Canadian Author Alice Munro wins the Nobel Prize for Literature
Life [and Death?] of Pi, if in Vancouver
Federal Government closes Coast Guard Station, replaces it with 2 summer students and an inflatable boat
Tuba Mirum: Requiem for the Book Warehouse
"..a book will be brought forth in which all will be written by which the world will be judged.." but you won't be able to buy it at Book Warehouse any more.
“Publish and be Vanzer-damned”
Bill Vander Zalm found guilty of libelling Ted Hughes in self-published autobiography
M&S to S&M? Canadian Literary Icons sold.
Canadian publisher McClelland & Stewart sold to Random House, {German conglomerate Bertelsmann AG}
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