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Anthrax Bull-shift!

Canadian Food Inspection Agency will no longer investigate, quarantine, clean up, vaccinate or test for deadly anthrax. It will shift that responsibility to livestock producers and private Veterinarians.

Canadian Food Inspection Agency will no longer investigate, quarantine, clean up, vaccinate or test for deadly anthrax. It will shift that responsibility to livestock producers and private Veterinarians.

“Brenting his Rath”

Canadian MP Brent Rathgeber resigns from Conservative caucus and attacks the Prime Minister and the Conservative Government for betraying its principals and "morphing into what we once mocked"

Canadian MP Brent Rathgeber resigns from the Conservative caucus and attacks the Prime Minister and the Conservative Government for betraying its principals and “morphing into what we once mocked”

Super Mario: Passing the Baton

Famed Canadian Mario Bernardi, conductor of National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic and CBC Radio Orchestra, dies at age 82

Famed Canadian Mario Bernardi, conductor of National Arts Centre Orchestra, Calgary Philharmonic and CBC Radio Orchestra, dies at age 82

Farewell to Henry Morgentaler

We can all walk taller thanks to Morgantaler

We all walk taller thanks to Morgentaler:

From Forests to Boards

Eco-activist, Tzeporah Berman,once branded an "enemy of the state" and a "whacked-out nature-worshipper" receives honorary doctorate from UBC for her work taking her environmental message into the boardrooms of the most powerful corporations.

Eco-activist, Tzeporah Berman, once branded an “enemy of the state” and a “whacked-out nature-worshipper” receives honorary doctorate from UBC for her work taking her environmental message into the boardrooms of the most powerful corporations.

Hear no evil, see no evil, speak no evil

Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin, Prime Minister Harper remain evasive on Senate expense scandal.

Senators Mike Duffy and Pamela Wallin, Prime Minister Harper remain evasive on Senate expense scandal.

Johnny Depp: from Oscar to Ossifer

Newly discovered Canadian fossil named "Kooteninchela deppi" in honour of Depp's "Edward Scissorhands" charactor.

Newly discovered 505-million-year-old marine fossil named “Kooteninchela deppi” in honour of Depp’s “Edward Scissorhands” character.

Disorder of Canada

Senators and Order of Canada recipients Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy resign from caucus over Senate expense-claim scandal

Senators and Order of Canada recipients Pamela Wallin and Mike Duffy resign from Conservative caucus over Senate expense-claim scandal

5.2 Quake hits Toronto

[It was caused by Mayor Rob Ford  taking a tumble]

[It was caused by Mayor Rob Ford taking a tumble after alleged crack-smoking video]

The Wright Duff

Canadian Conservative Senator Mike Duffy accepts $90,000 personal cheque from Prime Minister Harper's Chief of Staff Nigel Wright, to pay back falsified housing expense claims.

Canadian Conservative Senator Mike Duffy accepts $90,000 personal cheque from Prime Minister Harper’s Chief of Staff Nigel Wright, to pay back falsified housing expense claims.