Oh Canadian

Apparently, HBO recreates some super secret rooms in Mormon temples that non-Mormons, and even some Mormons, aren't permitted to visit (it also shows one of the characters in typical temple garb, above). The Mormons are so freaked out about the episode, and the show overall, that they've sent an email to their "public affairs representatives"

A proposed B.C. law would allow municipal officials to enter homes to seize unauthorized and possibly anti-Olympic signs on short notice, civil libertarians say.

Violators could be fined up to $10,000 a day and jailed up to six months, the B.C. Civil Liberties Association said Friday.

US bullied us into an ill-founded trade complaint. Now we look silly. Late last month, the World Trade Organization released a much-anticipated decision involving a U.S.-led complaint against China over its intellectual property laws.

A former Soviet KGB agent has taken sanctuary in a Vancouver church in order to avoid his scheduled deportation early Wednesday morning, CBC News has learned.

Mikhail Lennikov lost his last chance to stay in Canada on Monday when a Federal Court Judge upheld a decision by the Federal Public Safety Minister that Lennikov could not remain in Canada.

"I have never heard of such a thing in all my days: The main representative of the people ordering a corporate chieftain to step down — today! And not just any corporate CEO, but the head of the company that has spent more years at #1 on the Fortune 500 than any other corporation in the world." – Michael Moore

The Pirate Bay, the most popular P2P files sharing website has been brought under trial by the recording and movie industries. Already, the 'Pirate Bus' has appeared, and 50% of charges have been dropped. Will there be a Pirate Party in Canada?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pirate_Party

And the rapist, no prob. This, friends, is yet another reason many Catholics have had it with the reign of Prada Papa Ratzi. When it's not a 24/7 homo hate blast coming out of the Vatican, or another story about enabling pedophile priests on the loose, it's about underscoring the second-class citizenship of women.

LISBON, Portugal – Portugal's parliament passed a bill Friday that would make the predominantly Catholic nation the sixth in Europe to permit gay marriage.

Sexually explicit photos of some of China's most famous female stars spread like a virus over the Internet, and now the man who took them says he wants to protect the innocence of those women - even if it means refusing to testify in court. Chinese film star Edison Chen told a Vancouver judge Monday he will not reveal anything of an intimate nature regarding any of the women in the photos.