It’s been a couple weeks of protests, earthquakes, tornadoes, royalty and a dead hockey goon. Here’s some brewing news stories that might’ve slipped through the cracks!

> Oh wow, hey, there’s a new Governor General? I’d just planned on mailing in a News In Briefs today, but the changing of our head of state’s official representative [...]

Happy Cinco De Mayo (Spanish for “a fifth of Mayonnaise”), a Mexican holiday celebrating the, uh… some sort of revolution, or war, or… historical thing… hey look, Coronas are half price at the bar today! Here’s what’s going on in the country of Canada, which joins Mexico as America’s other bookend:

> Did you hear about [...]

Here’s your round-up of what’s going on in the nation of Canada:

>> And NDP goes Last Call With Carson Daly: Liberals Go Letterman, announces the Globe&Fail! Of course, MapleRag readers (HI MOM) will know that we already predicted this trend ages ago. The Liberals made a “Ten Things I Hate About You” list about Harper, and [...]

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, [...]

A round-up of the rumblings on the web which don’t deserve their own post…

> A purse by any other name: The Globe & Fail have continued their Pulitzer-worthy pursuit of Stockwell Day’s manpurse. In the third (!) such article about Doris’ murse, Jane Taber has bravely nailed down this story using Woodward & Bernstein-style investigative [...]