Sometimes our job’s too easy!
Background: Helena Guergis (pronounced Jore-Jis, in case you want to re-tell this story to your water-cooler buddies but don’t want to look silly saying Gur-Giss) is a former beauty pageant contestant with a community college certificate in Real Estate. She fell into the job of Conservative MP by running in a [...]
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Our roundup of stories not important enough to merit their own post:
> CROSBY CROSBY HOCKEY HOCKEY SWITZERLAND GOAL WIN SHOOTOUT CANADA CROSBY CROSBY 87 CROSBY. This is what most Canadians are currently discussing – most of them very drunk – so we’ll stick with that theme for every other bullet point.
> Both are also carbon-based, [...]
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Well, we already did this stupid, horrible thing for the Scotties, it would be unpatriotic if we didn’t do it for Canada’s Greatest Olympics(tm), right? [Editor's note: "He did", not "we did", as always I have nothing to do with this - Your Female Editor]
As always, attractiveness will be judged using the terminology of skip’s [...]
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First, for those of you who aren’t big hockey fans (e.g. Un-Canadian traitors) let’s try to explain the essence of Georges Laraque using a single video:
Georges Laraque is a man born with such God-given badassery that he says “Good luck, man” before casually deciding to enter into a bare-knuckle face-punching contest with a loose acquaintance.
He’s [...]
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Ahaha. What the hell did I just watch?
HIGHLIGHTS:
> Wolverine from Hell tearing a fiddle apart: In what I guess was a tribute to the East Coast, a horrifying mixture of Newfies, the cast of Stomp, Seattle fashion circa 1993, and Irish goths on acid fused to stomp their feet, fiddle up a storm under the [...]
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Exciting news!
THE MAPLERAG STORE IS NOW OPEN!
There’s a very common problem sweeping our nation: people with shirts that suck. In some cases, people wander this world without even bothering to put on a t-shirt, exposing their sinful bodies to the world. It’s about time that someone has stepped up with fine, high-quality shirts relating to [...]
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In our earlier days, we complained that covering Canadian politics had none of the glitz and glam of covering American politics. Americans have got no less than three 24-hour news networks covering quasi-celebrities fighting for the future of the Earth, while we’ve got a few sleepy hosers banging on their desks on CPAC2. The other [...]
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