1 A BUSY DAY FOR IDLE NO MORE Protests are planned across Canada. In Regina, they’ll be entering the city on Highway 6 and 11 around noon and heading to the legislature. More here.
2 NEW STADIUM, NEW TAXES Story here. We’re going to need more than an additional .45 per cent increase if we’re going to meet the city’s needs as well as pay for a stadium, though. Even the nearly five per cent increase in property taxes scheduled for 2023 probably won’t cover everything. We do accept this, right? Hello? Anyone?
3 SNOW AND RAIN MAKES ROADS BAD None shall argue.
4 OBAMA TO PROPOSE BANNING ASSAULT WEAPONS AND HIGH-CAPACITY CLIPS Story here. “Oh noes, teh freedom!”, critics will whine. Because assault weapons — we’re not even talking about handguns here! – -are somehow essential to liberty. Idiots. Thugs. Lunatics.
5 YOU’VE ALREADY HEARD ABOUT THE HELICOPTER CRASH IN LONDON But here’s the Guardian and BBC anyway.
6 YEAH, IF SHE’D BEEN HONEST SHE TOTALLY WOULD STILL BE EMPLOYED A school teacher who lied about acting in the adult film industry before she became a teacher can’t have her job back. I’m calling it: this is sex-negative malarkey and slut-shaming. It’s also pretty goddamn infuriating that it’s a female science teacher being fired. The world needs more of those. Fuckers.
NORWAY’S CHANGING SEASONS, AS SEEN FROM A TRAIN Wowwww. Read more here.
