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Jun. 16th, 2011
Wednesday Night Icons
Jun. 16th, 2011 03:15 amA dinner date goes wrong, and Peerless walks away with a stack of determination points.
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"war minus the shooting"
Jun. 16th, 2011 04:42 am
Riot police fired a dozen flash bombs in downtown Vancouver Wednesday night to try to disperse angry hockey fans who set cars on fire and started fistfights after the Canucks' 4-0 loss to the Boston Bruins in the final game of the Stanley Cup.
Police have declared the downtown fan zone area near the CBC building and the central post office a riot zone, Ian Hanomansing of CBC News reported. Anyone not leaving the West Georgia Street area immediately would be arrested, they warned.
Title taken from Orwell's "The Sporting Spirit":
Now that the brief visit of the Dynamo football team has come to an end, it is possible to say publicly what many thinking people were saying privately before the Dynamos ever arrived. That is, that sport is an unfailing cause of ill-will, and that if such a visit as this had any effect at all on Anglo-Soviet relations, it could only be to make them slightly worse than before.
Big Surprise
Jun. 16th, 2011 01:41 pm
The federal government has served notice that it intends to introduce back-to-work legislation to end the contract dispute between Canada Post and its 48,000 urban postal workers.
Labour Minister Lisa Raitt made the statement in the House of Commons during question period Wednesday.
Raitt said the government served the required 48-hour notice in the House of Commons Wednesday night, which means the legislation that would strip workers of their collective bargaining rights could be introduced in two days.
How likely would you say someone following up
with but we should definitely excuse the perpetrators would be?
Obviously we shouldn’t blame the victims.
with but we should definitely excuse the perpetrators would be?