Culture Buzz Just 42 St. Bernards out for a casual forest walk. Filmed on Lasqueti Island, Canada.
Sports Buzz I would trade Ferris Bueller and those dogs that bark the Star Wars theme for this in a second.
Culture Buzz Photographed in Mirabel, Quebec. Very cool. (Coooool, get it? Sorry.)
Culture Buzz A seagull got its head stuck between braided power lines in Canada this week. Luckily, Nova Scotia Power lineman Yvon Blin came to the rescue. Blin’s now a hometown hero, as he should be.
This should help the QLP shoot up in the polls. Wait, what?
TV Buzz Like, reaaaly can't. Here's a clip from '80s Canadian kids show Switchback about a new phenomenon called “rapping”—which the host describes as “one of the hottest, hottest items today”—that features not one, but two secondhand embarrassment-inducing performances from some of the whitest teens to ever hock a rhyme. (via The Daily What)
Culture Buzz Brian M. Calvert of Vancouver endorses his own country to run ours. But before you get all knee-jerk about it, just listen to what he has to say.
Culture Buzz Winter is coming. The Calgary Philharmonic Orchestra Chorus asked fellow Canadians to tweet in there tips on how to keep warm, and then (appropriately) used the tweets as vocal warm-ups.
Politics Buzz This is what happens when you have socialized medicine…death panels and forced cleavagectomies. Canadian MP Rathika Sitsabaiesan, a 29-year-old rising political star, had her boobs philifustered by Photoshop on the official site of Parliament. You may think this is a silly political scandal amongst conservative Canucks, but the same thing happened to Chris Christie (no it didn't).
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Ottawa resident Richard Osborn is currently on trial for making and possessing pornography, as well as voyeurism. Among the videos seized at his arrest were several depicting him, um, penetrating a Cabbage Patch doll, which had been altered to provide easily accessible…orifices…I don't think I can continue. This man just ejaculated all over my childhood.
Take comfort, America. There are friggin’ idiots friggin’ everywhere. Now gimme a cigarette, ey.
On July 25, 2011, Jack Layton stepped down as leader of the New Democrat Party in order to concentrate on his second battle with cancer. Sadly, this morning at 4:45am, surrounded by family and loved ones, Mr. Layton passed away. You can read his final message to Canadians here. (via cbc.ca)
Celebrity Buzz Soon to be displayed in an “adult store” in Dallas, Texas. From Daniel Edwards, the same modern-day Rodin who brought us this. The Canadian Maple Leaf and Texas Lone Star are indeed part of the piece. As are the goose and armadillo. Symbolism, y'all. (via uproxx.com)
Food Buzz I love roadtrips. And food. And what better way to celebrate both than to read up on the most famous monuments of food, located at famous road trip destinations? This list is second only to me being there myself. (facts via roadsideamerica)
Not just because it's big, beautiful, laid-back, and sophisticated, but because these people call it, “home.”
Sports Buzz Riots broke out in Vancouver not long after the Canucks lost the Stanley Cup to the Boston Bruins last night. It looks like a warzone.
Culture Buzz American Apparel recently received a stay of execution thanks to investors pumping $15 million into the near-bankrupt clothing company. Let's celebrate by looking at their naughtiest ads. Their naughtiest ads from this year, that is. A mega list of every American Apparel ad featuring nudity or blasé soft core would stretch longer than Dov Charney's court docket.
Food Buzz A whole smorgasbord of menu items available at McDonald's restaurants abroad that we in the United States can only salivate over from afar. Those creeps at McDonald's International are holding out on us.
Oh boy! A woman's sexual history is like car value depreciation! Ugh, how else can we objectify women!? The ad was spotted in London Free Press, a newspaper in London, Ontario.