Women recently made up half the candidates in a nationwide election for chief of the Assembly of First Nations, and First Nations (native Canadian) women say they're gaining political power. Says Michele Audette, president of the Quebec Native Women’s Association, “We started to think, we have to work with the men, and have a healing process. And we have to work with the women, and empower them."
BBQ Chip Bandits? I can’t make this stuff up.
Happy Canada day! You’re really not just America’s hat, Canada. We love you for these reasons and many more.
The actor is currently filming a biopic about Casey Anthony in Winnipeg and managed to upset everyone who lives there by calling it a “hellhole.” Well, kind of.
Sad and touching. Residents of White Rock, British Columbia gathered yesterday to pay their respects for a beached humpback whale.
In the remote northern Canadian territory of Nunavut, food comes with a shocking price tag due to transportation costs. The mostly Inuit population there has started a Facebook group with images of food prices to bring attention to the issue. (via grist.org)
“It’s raining everywhere! It’s amazing! Victoria! She sounds like she’s hot!”
What do Joseph Stalin and Madonna have in common? Luka Magnotta. Here are the weirdest bits from the Facebook profile of the Canadian Cannibal Porn Star. Some of this information, in retrospect, is chilling. Thankfully he was captured today. (via facebook.com)
Thank goodness for the apprehension part, not so much the BuzzFeed user part. Luka Rocco Magnotta, on the run after murdering and eating a man, was finally arrested in an internet cafe in Berlin. Also, he posted bare-assed photos of himself on our website.
Not even kidding. This is the almost too-ghoulish-to-be-true story of Luka Rocco Magnotta, currently wanted by Interpol for murdering, eating and dismembering a man — all on video — then mailing the body parts to Canadian politicians. WARNING: Graphic details.
A new law in Quebec would severely limit the legality of non-violent protests. Naturally, there’s a protest. In Montreal, people meet in the street every night at 8pm with pots and pans, making all the noise they can.
Complete with bare-knuckle boxing, spearing, flipping off parents in the crowd, fighting referees, and both benches clearing.
Jenna Talackova, born a man and nearly disqualified from the pageant, dominated the swimsuit and evening gown portions of the Miss Universe Canada competition. The winner will be crowned on Saturday night.
I hope to experience the same satisfaction of paying off my loans too someday (in about 114 more payments).
At least that’s what focus groups saw. It’s in fact the Vimy Memorial in France, dedicated to Canadian soldiers who lost their lives in World War I. Certain participants in focus groups said the new bill contained imagery too reminiscent of the World Trade Center and was too pornographic.
Yet again, Canada kicks the USA’s ass in WTF-ness.
I did not know this; but then, Canada has always been a mystery. Yahoo Answers to the rescue.
You are not hallucinating at home, Toronto news viewers.
Her tour bus, people, her tour bus!
The former VP cancelled his trip to Toronto because, “Canada is too dangerous.”
You just got pandabombed, Harper!
Just 42 St. Bernards out for a casual forest walk. Filmed on Lasqueti Island, Canada.
I would trade Ferris Bueller and those dogs that bark the Star Wars theme for this in a second.
Photographed in Mirabel, Quebec. Very cool. (Coooool, get it? Sorry.)
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?
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)
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.
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.
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).
