From The Globe and Mail:
The federal government plans to name Toronto a “cultural capital of Canada” and give the city $500,000 for that designation, effective this September through August, 2006.
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A couple of years ago, Girl Guides switched their cookie manufacturer. You just don’t do that. Changing Girl Guides cookies is kind of like…I don’t know, moving from Movable Type
This article is a year old, but it’s still relevant:
Approximately 1.7 billion people worldwide now belong to the “consumer class”
From the movie Collateral, after a taxi driver (Max) sees a man killed:
Vincent: Max, six billion people on the planet, you’re getting bent out of shape cause of one fat guy.
It was -35 degrees Celsius yesterday. Absolutely freezing. It was one of those days you ask what in the world you are doing living here. You even think nasty thoughts about those in