The tories take over! Hahaha Burn! Burn!

so... if you were dressing Barbie, would any of these appeal to you?

now imagine she's supposed to be a teenage Barbie... would that change your mind at all? really, what teen/pre-teen dresses like any of those? even if she is Barbie... maybe that's just me though, perhaps teens and pre-teens really like to wear mini skirts that barely cover their bum, and tops that expose either tummy or a whole lot of cleavage... maybe I live in a different world. what do you think?

if you're curious, it's from Bravo's Project Runway

The BBC's been carrying some quirky stuff surrounding our election, like this one:

French President Falls For Canadian Radio Station Hoax

And just after the election, the Beeb wrote how Harper won the election by becoming more of a "progressive conservative". Preston Manning, your work was in vain.

so... if you're curious, this is one of the locations at which I will be conducting research. (the little white blotch in the middle of the image). If you zoom in, you'll get an idea of the size of Rainbow Lake - I think it's the nearest community - and if you zoom out, you'll see how far freakin' north it is. woo hoo!

okay, so the HBC is being bought by an American investor whose company is called Maple Leaf Heritage Investments?? what is this? is his specialty buying up canadian companies? this is mildly creepy, to say the least.


so, yeah, not only is Stephen Lewis the UN Special Envoy for Aids in Afrika, but he's been a huge social demonstrator for years. I saw him talk in 2000 on the subject of racism in Canada, and it was phenomenal. he's also Avi Lewis' dad... if that helps you out too...



oh, and... BUST magazine has a photo essay of Feist on the road and Martha Wainwright's recipe for roast chicken and vegetables. sweet stuff

Yo Eric, here's that "something-feathers" band I was trying to tell you and Jason about last night:

the Lovely Feathers
Whoever dropped one of their tracks played "Wrong Choice", but I still haven't figured out who played it.


Also, I've been feeling this band:

Didley Squat
They're like if Hot Hot Heat actually made a really, really, good record last year instead of a shitty one. I'm kickin it.

"Call me lazy, or call me crazy; but don't you dare try to save me. Every bone in my body was made to broken!"
I'm lovin that song (Tigerlily). Too bad it's not on their myspace. ;(

Funny... I clicked on that link and I was taken to the cbc main site: http://www.cbc.ca/ . And the lead story there was: Asthma rates in children have jumped fourfold: report

God, he's sick already? Harper treated in Ottawa Hospital:

"I got whisked as much as you can get whisked in our health-care system."

Oh, and another one bites the dust, as it were. I don't know why, but my dad's been anticipating this forever.

So much for the better relations with Washington: New Canadian PM rebuffs US envoy:

Canadian Prime Minister-elect Stephen Harper has defended plans to send military ice-breakers to the Arctic in defiance of criticism from Washington.

US ambassador David Wilkins said on Wednesday that Washington opposed the plan and, like most other countries, did not recognise Canada's claims.

Mr Harper said his mandate was from the Canadian people, not Mr Wilkins.

Mr Harper's Conservatives have promised to defend Canada's northern waters from claims by the US, Russia and Denmark.