Today in Kabul we’re expecting a balmy high of 38 celsius, overnight low of 0, chance of raining shrapnel stands at 20%, chance of a Canadian pullout in 2011… ehhhh… depends who you ask.
The Harper government’s original plan was to abandon all military operations in Afghanistan by 2011, a war Canada had entered to kill [...]
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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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Alright, let’s break down the players in this story in case you’ve been in a coma for 23 years:
This Hour Has 22 Minutes was a popular CBC news-parody political-satire series. About 10 years ago. Apparently it’s still on! Honestly, have any of you watched 22 Minutes lately? It’s basically a horrible, walking zombie corpse of [...]
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What’s the absolute most annoying television commercial ever?
Head On?
This indescribably awkward Miracle Whip ad about how their slightly-off-tasting mayonnaise is really a punk-rock parkour party lifestyle?
SLAP CHOP?!
All worthy entries, but there are a slew of ads on the TV right now that are so horribly cheap, deceptive and downright slimey that they’re [...]
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