“Those ships must be here someplace”. Canadian Prime Minister Harper’s Arctic Sovereignty Strategy seems entirely dependent on finding The lost ships of the Franklin Expedition.
Canadian Prime Minister Harper, off on another photo-op-rich tour of the far north, stated in a speech: “The North is a great treasure-house and its resources must be, er, utilized.”
Though negotiations continue between CP Rail and the City of Vancouver over the sale of the Arbutus rail corridor, CP moved in with bulldozers to clear community gardens that have grown for years along the unused route.
Some metro-Vancouver cities are considering banning “In Memorium” park benches after citizens complained that the proliferation of these memorials created a “cemetery-like” environment in parks.
Statistics Canada has admitted that its July Jobs report contained major errors. The survey showed a mere 200 jobs were created rather than the 20,000 predicted.
The CBC is looking for pet cats with “adventurous and unusual characters”,[which would be everyone’s pet cat!], to star in its Feline Documentary: “The Lion in Your Living-room”.
A Calgary radio station , using the slogan “Now Twice the Music!”, has cut all the pop hits it plays in half in order to cater to listeners’ decreasing attention spans.