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[24 Feb 2010 | One Comment | 215 views]
2 Teachers 1 Chair – Are Lap Dances Appropriate Behaviours for Teachers?

Two high school teachers from Churchill High School in Winnipeg were taped putting on a lapdance show that would make Elizabeth Berkeley jealous during a school rally, before hundreds of high school kids in the school gymnasium. Like all good lapdances, there was a modest amount of ass-to-face, crotch-to-face, ass-to-crotch, face-to-crotch action with a hint of spankings. Brilliant.

The clip was posted on YouTube titled “Two Teachers One Chair” (hehe, nice). It is not known whether the teachers were aware of the filming, but with hundreds of pubescent …

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[21 Feb 2010 | 2 Comments | 111 views]
Canada Does Not Guarantee Canadian Rights and Freedoms

On January 29th, 2010, Canada’s Supreme Court declared that Omar Khadr, a Canadian arrested and detained for seven years without civil trial under Bush’s Military Commissions Act, had his “right to life, liberty and security of the person” violated in Guantanamo Bay after evidence surfaced that harsh interrogation methods were used on him by CSIS (Canadian Security Intelligence Services) and foreign affairs officials. And, well, that’s all, folks!
The highest court of Canada made a declaration that one of our citizens’ basic rights have been violated, yet stopped short of doing …

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[31 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 204 views]
Understanding the Rage Behind the Canadian Parliamentary Prorogue

On December 30th, 2009, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper rang up Canada’s Governor General, Michaelle Jean to prorogue the Canadian Parliament.  Jean granted permission (as a good Governor General always does), and the Canadian legislative assembly was officially put into suspension until March 2010.
Since then, Canadians have been divided into two camps:
A) ones who are appalled by Harper’s seemingly despotic power and
B) people who just don’t care.
(Personally, I do not know anyone from a camp C who is ecstatic for prorogation.  If you do, let me know.)

It’s an interesting …

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[24 Jan 2010 | One Comment | 107 views]
Obama: Too Much Respect for the Constitution?

After Senate passed their version health-care reform on Christmas Eve, the prevailing wisdom was that Congressional Democrats would quickly resolve the differences between the House and Senate versions so that the President could sign the bill and use his State of the Union address to pivot to a new job-focused legislative agenda. Scott Brown’s victory on Tuesday in the Massachusetts Senate election now means the era of the Democratic Party’s senatorial “supermajority” is over and brings the fate of American healthcare reform into question.
An obvious solution would be for …