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Now that anger is being expressed in an unusual way: An Italian group on the social networking Web site Facebook is urging people to post condoms to the pope in protest over his remarks. It expects 60,000 subscribers will send a condom to the Vatican on Friday.

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.

Stephen Harper just couldn't hold it in any longer.

The prime minister had kept his Wolverine-style, dagger-like claws retracted for a spell, calling a smiling truce with the Liberals late last month for the greater good.

OTTAWA — The Prime Minister's Office moved swiftly Wednesday to refute allegations that Stephen Harper pocketed a sacramental communion wafer at the funeral mass of Romeo LeBlanc instead of consuming it.

Harper's move called affront to democracy.Yesterday's rally to protest against the prime minister's year-end move to shut down Parliament until March went peacefully, even as it gave Stephen Harper a sound hammering.

Switzerland’s private banks have started to ban their top executives from traveling abroad, even to neighbouring France and Germany, because of fears they will be detained as part of a global crackdown on bank secrecy.

"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

Hey, here's a truly hot-looking art opportunity: Eyelevel Gallery and the Halifax Audio Club has just put out a call for submissions to "Audio Bathhouse", where Sea Dog's, the "largest private men's club east of Quebec City" is given over for an evening to audio and video installations.

Afghanistan - The children who were killed and wounded in an explosion outside a tiny Afghan village this week were likely scavenging for bits of metal. Village elders in Salehan, about 15 kilometres outside of Kandahar city, say today that the children found what may have been unexploded munitions in a field after Canadian soldiers conducted a range practice.