China: Olympic Boycott Not Very Nice
China threatening over threatened boycott...... errrr, right, that's it.
Olympic boycott calls 'will fail' I'm not taking either side here, but the US is hardly in a position to lecture other nations over selling arms: "...some European and US politicians have called for the 2008 games to be boycotted because China continues to sell arms to Sudan."
Labels: China, Olympics, Sudan, US
Note to Canada: Strippers are People Too!!!
As per usual I am embracing procrastination the way it should be, and then I stumbled across this...
From the same country that wanted to protect Bigfoot, and I'm not talking about the film...
Foreign exotic dancers to be banned from Canada
Updated Wed. May. 16 2007 3:31 PM ET
CTV.ca News Staff
The federal government is set to bring in a new law that will ban immigrants who come to Canada as exotic dancers. The change to the Immigration and Refugee Act is expected to be announced Wednesday by Immigration Minister Diane Finley, who told the House of Commons that the move will protect "vulnerable foreign workers," such as strippers. Under the current laws, the onus is on strip club owners to prove there is a shortage of Canadian dancers each time they apply to bring in a foreign exotic dancer.......The Tories have been touting the move as a response to the so-called Strippergate scandal when former Liberal immigration minister Judy Sgro resigned amid accusations that she fast-tracked the immigration papers of a Romanian stripper who worked on her campaign. "The Liberals gave blanket exemptions to foreign strippers to work in Canada," a senior government source told The Canadian Press. "We're putting an end to the Liberal Strippergate in order to prevent the exploitation of women." I have a problem - "Blanket exemptions to foreign strippers", doesn't that defeat the purpose of stripping?
Labels: Canadian Politics, Strippers
BBC Reporter Petition
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Canadian Political Petitions
Whilst I would usually leave Canadian Politics to an actual Canadian, I couldn't let this one slip up...
It seems the people of Canada have espoused great concern in regards to the protection of a certain species... One so rare that it's doubtful existence makes it worthy to protect...
Confused?
The debate over their existence is moot in the circumstance of their tenuous hold on merely existing," reads a petition presented by Mike Lake to Parliament.
"Therefore, the petitioners request the House of Commons to establish . . . legislation to affect immediate protection of
Bigfoot."
Lake is the Conservative MP for Edmonton - Mills Woods - Beaumont, I'm not sure if that means anything!
Labels: Bigfoot, Canadian Politics
