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Thursday September 20, 2007

- 8 Afghani President Hamid Karzai has urged Canada not to withdraw troops in 2009, saying that his country would be enveloped by terrorism without Canada’s help. Yeah, but if the terrorists take over, it won’t really be your country anymore, will it Hamid?

+2 In an effort to make up for July’s lazy, boring travel piece on Vancouver the New York Times covers Main Street. Or as we like to call it, Yaletown Jr.

- 4 Replanting all the trees that have been devastated by BC’s pine beetle infestation would take an estimated 1,300 years, but surely by then Jesus will have come back to save us. Everyone will just be like “meh, trees are sooo pre-salvation.”

- 2 Speaking of Jesus, The View co-host Sherri Shepherd admits that she doesn’t believe in evolution, and then (seriously) goes on to question the spherical nature of planet Earth. Her excuse for pulling a Miss South Carolina? She’s been too busy worrying about what to feed her son to have ever, even out of the corner of her eye, seen a globe even once in her life. No globes, just maps. She’s a map lady.

- 5 A former CSIS (Canada’s spy agency) official said, ‘I wish dearly' that the wiretap tapes relating to the Air India inquiry weren’t erased. Since his retirement a new CSIS department run by some of Canada’s best and brightest has been established. Taking advantage of the most advanced technology, the department will wish for things like clues and world peace around the clock.

- 1 Even with the huge Kanye/50 thing, album sales are down nine percent compared to the same week last year.

+3 Rupert Murdoch may follow the Times’ lead and abandon the Wall Street Journal’s online subscription model for 100% free access. But then again, what sort of poor bastard without the income to pay for the Journal would actually read it?

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