Category: news

In Melbourne, Australia, two masked bandits robbed a gas station at gunpoint yesterday. After threatening the gas station attendant with a sawed-off shotgun, the thieves made off with two big bags… of garbage.

Link: Aussie bandits make getaway from gas station robbery with bags of garbage

In yet another blunder at the taxpayer’s expense, Canada Post issued a stamp to commemorate the IOC decision to award the 2010 Winter Olympics to Vancouver. Strangely, the stamp features a building not in Vancouver, but on the other side of the country, in Ottawa.

How did such a mistake happen? My guess is that Steven W. Mahoney, the secretary of state responsible for Canada Post, simply couldn’t find Vancouver on his map of Ontario.

Link: Canada.com: “Quickie stamp marks Vancouver Games“

This one sounds like it’s straight from the pages of the National Inquirer, under a story about aliens. A family in Cranbrook, BC discovers that their cat, who is nursing kittens, has adopted some orphans.

Link: Canada.com: “Family cat a mom to mice”

Fodor’s Travel Guides has produced a marvellous new guide to tourism in Canada, called PureCanada. Unfortunately, the guide’s map appears to be missing a couple of little geographical details, such as:

• The province of Prince Edward Island
• The Yukon territory
• The cities of Halifax, Fredericton, and Brandon.

As well, the territory of Nunavut is misspelled “Nunavit”.

In an effort to reconcile the discrepancies between the map and actual geographical details, the federal government plans to blow up PEI, which would be more cost-effective than paying another $600,000 of taxpayer’s money to reprint the guide. The inhabitants of PEI, and the three cities — also slated for removal — will be relocated to the new territory of Nunavit, where they’ll build a new Anne of Green Gables theme park.

The destruction of the Yukon won’t be necessary, as nobody has lived there since the gold rush.

Link: CBC News: ” No Yukon, P.E.I. on new maps of Canada”.