I was going to write a SERIOUS BUDGET RESPONSE, like everyone else’s doing, but that just wouldn’t suit our… style. Instead, here’s this.
On Monday, two older men – their hair graying, their eyes full of doe-eyed innocence – stepped back in front of the cameras with their finest suits freshly dry-cleaned, ready to return to [...]
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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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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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Everyone loves interviews, because it gives a chance to meet people, learn about their ideas, and – most importantly – it means we have to do less writing! Here’s a new feature, Ask A Party Hack, where we ask the tough questions of the day to a totally biased partisan we find! If you love [...]
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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 [...]
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As I type this, Your Honourable Leader of the Opposition His Iggyness is engaged in an online live chat! Not with the media, or a newspaper… with a Facebook group! Oh God, the political parties are becoming aware of “The Internet”! Soon it’s gonna be all, Facebook Michael Ignatieff’s Twitters On Youtube To Blog A [...]
Filed under: Current Events, The Interweb | Comments (3) Article tags: chat, facebook, grassroots, iggy, ignatieff, interweb, liberals, punctuation, quotegate, that's what she said