tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-187631732024-03-19T04:27:46.147-04:00Funny, eh?For those who think Canadian news isn't funny.Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.comBlogger39125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-48287105359781473512013-07-02T11:56:00.000-04:002013-07-02T11:56:31.361-04:00Watch Your LanguageQuebec, currently a province within Canada, has a minority government dedicated to separating from Canada to create its own country.
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To that end the separatists do their best to alienate English-speaking residents. The ultimate aim of these fascists is for English-speaking Quebeckers to leave the province. Why? Because the English-speaking people tend to vote in referendums <i>for</i> the federal government and <i>against</i> separation.
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To annoy English-speakers the separatists focus on limiting the English language in the workplace, schools and wherever else that strikes their fancy. Their rationale is that they are protecting the French language (spoken by the majority of Quebec residents). The government devotes <b>$24.7 million annually</b> to a special "police" force that investigates complaints about the absence of French or the predominance of English.
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This narrow-mindedness, not mention, xenophobic behaviour, has led to some hilarious events. Such as:
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<b>Pastagate</b>
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An Italian restaurant was ordered to print a French version of the word "Pasta".
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<b>Pastrygate</b>
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A pastry store was ordered to adapt its multilingual "welcome" sign so that French would be three times the size of the other languages.
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<b>Turbangate</b>
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Little Sikh boys were forbidden to play soccer while wearing their turbans (a religious requirement) despite the approval of FIFA, the world soccer federation.
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<b>Spoongate</b>
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A yoghurt shop had its plastic spoons confiscated because the wording on them was in English only.
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<iframe width="560" height="315" src="//www.youtube.com/embed/AzfINpV1HEM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-14884665463814355582012-07-10T12:37:00.000-04:002012-07-10T12:37:43.005-04:00This car's all wet<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">A Windsor, Ontario student driver will never forget his first driving lesson. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Postmedia News] </span> He put the car in reverse but instead of pressing the brake his foot depressed the accelerator and the car roared backwards through a wooden fence into a private swimming pool.<br />
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Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-34492025818214728822012-01-23T11:20:00.003-05:002012-01-23T11:20:30.093-05:00<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrvh2QPvRkepSLuXE_BzxK-GfcKR4DpTfvkDSXQw39EwUZkNZr_Vj3Dtp8Cf6mt2xRjE1RGh2YLmQkEtqETEAGWZKyBkKGzR_eVh6lAZO1ZrKCal_qm9Ao-eovbWFw9LmtlMys/s1600/cat.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhrvh2QPvRkepSLuXE_BzxK-GfcKR4DpTfvkDSXQw39EwUZkNZr_Vj3Dtp8Cf6mt2xRjE1RGh2YLmQkEtqETEAGWZKyBkKGzR_eVh6lAZO1ZrKCal_qm9Ao-eovbWFw9LmtlMys/s1600/cat.jpg" /></a><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">$100,000 worth of damages when a 17-year-old smashed her speeding car into two cars, a boat and a house in Barrie, Ontario. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[Postmedia News]. </span><br />
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After all, what location could surpass that of Montreal where hoodlums are lionized and a public enquiry into corruption among politicians and construction companies will finally soon be underway after months of stalling by Quebec's premier? Where the Gazette routinely reports on Mafia killings and the exploits of the Hell's Angels?<br />
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No doubt delegates had fun swapping heavy suitcases full of cash from the four dozen countries.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: large;">Two Montreal men tried to fool a Calgary sailboat seller by offering to buy two sailboats (worth a cool $100,000) with cash. </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">[</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;">Postmedia News] </span><br />
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Catch was that their "cash" had to be smuggled into the country disguised as plain paper. The scam artists washed such a piece of paper with a chemical to transform it into a $50 note.<br />
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But the boat salespeople were suspicious and called the police. The men have been charged with fraud.<br />
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Gives a whole new meaning to "money laundering."Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-39521045608422923962011-05-17T13:23:00.000-04:002011-05-17T13:23:47.873-04:00Burglar demands two weeks' pay<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpyQKiJK1AiJywRJsPhezM0PrSgQr2kvAKm0PcUkpOMv4Lrjqa6p7Iy6UczkOo3ICm_gUdsL6FZT3q0xi9xG5XNiDOWNTFJ7MHs6AAa18hRszRuBzW5kaabqz5L-btrJ30tL9t/s1600/81243khu0cdvi2.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" height="128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgpyQKiJK1AiJywRJsPhezM0PrSgQr2kvAKm0PcUkpOMv4Lrjqa6p7Iy6UczkOo3ICm_gUdsL6FZT3q0xi9xG5XNiDOWNTFJ7MHs6AAa18hRszRuBzW5kaabqz5L-btrJ30tL9t/s200/81243khu0cdvi2.jpg" width="200" /></a></div>(vegadsl)<br />
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After a New Brunswick man was arrested for breaking into the place where he worked he later demanded 2 weeks' pay because his boss had not given him the customary two weeks' notice!<br />
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A tribunal actually awarded the would-be thief over $900. However, New Brunswick's Labour and Employment Board reversed that decision, concluding that his burglary "constituted just cause for termination of his employment." [Montreal Gazette].<br />
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Police charged the boy with aggravated assault. The mother is recovering in hospital.<br /><br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-size: 130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Do you think she got the point?</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><div menubottom="0" menuright="0" menutop="0" menuleft="0" activeid="-1" expanded="0" style="display: none;" id="divCleekiAttrib"></div>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-28127263783008785042010-04-12T10:13:00.003-04:002010-04-12T10:34:09.630-04:00Only on Air Canada You Say? Pity.<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">A British professor was alarmed that Air Canada left him to sleep way after his flight from Calgary to Vancouver had landed.<br /><br />Kris Lines of Staffordshire University was not amused to be awoken by a mechanic after his Air Canada Jazz plane was towed into a hanger. The professor of sports law had apparently been snoozing for 90 minutes. <span style="font-size:85%;">[Montreal Gazette, April7, 2010]<br /><br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">So? New slogan for Air Canada? "Let sleeping profs lie"?</span></span><br /></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-44459355141190605162008-01-28T09:15:00.000-05:002008-01-28T09:34:55.896-05:00Hey, why walk when you can steal a ride?<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Four teenage car thieves in Winnipeg, Manitoba, <span style="font-size:100%;">decided it was too cold to walk to their counselling session (on why they should stop stealing cars!) so they stole a car for the ride. <span style="font-size:78%;">[Canwest News Service]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Three of the four alleged chronic car thieves were arrested shortly after exiting the Winnipeg Training for Youth program where they had spent the morning learning why it's wrong to steal cars.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">But what's a teen to do in the deep freeze for which Winnipeg is world-renowned? Shiver in the cold while walking, or waiting for public transport? At least they were up and about. Many teens would prefer to stay snug and warm in bed for the morning.</span><br /><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-53742601501709595062007-09-20T09:21:00.001-04:002007-09-20T09:35:10.979-04:00Bank invites rip-offs<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:arial;">A man deposited a bank draft which 48 hours later turned out to be a fake. <span style="font-size:100%;">The teller accepted the deposit and allowed the customer to withdraw some of the $1.5 million face value of the draft. <span style="font-size:78%;">[Montreal Gazette}</span><br /><br />A court case by the National Bank of Canada to recover the monies paid out on behalf of the customer was dismissed by the judge who said the bank's employee should have been more diligent.<br /><br />The bank's lawyer is horrified and plans to appeal. Claiming it's a matter of principle he says if the ruling prevails the bank "would have the burden of verifying bank drafts against the issuer."<br /><br /><span style="font-family:times new roman;">Wow. Guess this means you can cheerfully deposit fake bank drafts in the National Bank, withdraw the money,<br />and walk off with the cash. At least until the appeal is heard. Wonder if anyone's told the Nigerian scammers about this potential goldmine?</span><br /></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-59358969152174301742007-07-31T18:47:00.000-04:002007-07-31T18:56:46.172-04:00Our Tax Dollars At Work<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Federal tax collectors in British Columbia <span style="font-size:100%;">downloaded over 800 pirated MP3 files of music and stored them on Canada Revenue's computers so they could listen and share the songs. <span style="font-size:78%;">[Canadian Press; Canwest News Service]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The digital music took up more than five gigabytes of space.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Gives a whole new meaning to "whistle while you work".</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-70345493820468465752007-06-30T10:51:00.000-04:002007-06-30T11:04:06.061-04:00Pissing contest?<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">A new, unintentional tourist attraction in Edmonton <span style="font-size:100%;">will invite men (and eventually women) to urinate in public.<br /><br />Downtown businesses on Whyte Avenue, evidently a popular area for drinking, are tired of drunks relieving themselves in alleys and doorways. So they are installing <span style="font-weight: bold;">open-air plastic urinals</span>.<span style="font-size:78%;">[Montreal Gazette]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Four men can use the urinals at one time. A plastic divider will provide a semblance of privacy for the urinaters. Since they are drunk one wonders if they'd care.<br /><br />No details yet on the proposed outhouses for women.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Gives a whole new meaning to the concept of being judged by one's pee-rs.</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-44156994330825346412007-05-31T16:06:00.000-04:002007-05-31T16:29:23.972-04:00Ethics of a Car Salesman<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">No Saturday shopping for a new car <span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">in Quebec. Nor Sunday for that matter. Most new car dealers in the province are closed on weekends.<br /><br />When the PIE IX Dodge Chrysler dealership decided to defy the local dealers' Association and open on weekends many of the other new car dealers were outraged. They expelled the dealership that dared to put customers' convenience first.<br /><br />So outraged were the dealers that they staged demonstrations to make it difficult for would-be customers to enter the premises of the open-on-weekends Dodge dealer. The protesters also jammed phone lines to the open dealership so potential buyers couldn't get through. <span style="font-size:78%;">[Montreal Gazette]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">One disgruntled car salesman went too far. He called in a bomb threat. But he had to leave a message because of the phone blockage. The message carried caller ID. So the manager called that number, pretended to be someone else and got the man's name and the name of the GM dealership where he worked.<br /><br />Police were notified and charges laid.<br /><br />The man's boss said the guy was on sick leave.<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Dah.</span></span><br /></span></span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-55650645403433011272007-04-30T13:41:00.000-04:002007-04-30T13:59:03.201-04:00West Coast Wackies<span style="font-size:130%;">If you've ever wondered why <span style="font-size:80;"><span style="font-size:100%;">our west coast people are considered somewhat wacky, here are two stories from Vancouver</span> <span style="font-size:55;"><span style="font-size:78%;">[courtesy the Montreal Gazette]:<br /><br /></span><span style="font-size:100%;">A driver charged with impaired driving after his car was stopped for weaving on a freeway claimed his attention was not compromised by the 10 beers and double cocktail he'd consumed but rather because his wife was enjoying a new vibrator.<br /><br />In a hopefully unrelated story, the RCMP have new orders to check inside cars that appear to have been abandoned. This followed the revelation that a dead man sat in his car on the Trans-Canada Highway (presumably on the shoulder) for 3 days despite the car being noticed and flagged by local police and the Mounties. Seems no-one looked inside the vehicle.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Just goes to show that on the West Coast cars can be hazardous to your health.</span><br /></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-28818139202947425952007-01-30T10:33:00.000-05:002007-01-30T11:03:56.237-05:00Centenarian Won't Be Caught Napping<span style="font-size:180%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Saskatchewan centenarian Phyllis Perkins </span><span style="font-size:80;"><span style="font-size:100%;"> was excused from jury duty because serving as a juror would likely "interrupt her nap time."</span> <span style="font-size:78%;">[Montreal Gazette]</span><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">The Saskatoon resident </span></span></span><span style="font-size:100%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;">(born in 1903) meets the only legal requirements in that province for jury duty: being an adult and living in the judicial district.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;font-size:85%;"> Pity she's excused from serving. Ms Perkins might have set a whole new trend: Regular snooze time for judges and juries. Imagine what that could do for our moribund justice system.</font-size:80%;"></span></span><span style="font-size:85%;"><br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size:120;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><span style="font-size:100%;"><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-size:120;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-5405792503807732642007-01-30T10:15:00.000-05:002007-01-30T10:32:56.276-05:00Forget Radar Traps -- Just Use Goats<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">No goats on the 401</span></span> (Canada's busiest highway linking Montreal with Toronto) provided a Swiss visitor with an excuse for driving 61 km/hr over the speed limit. <span style="font-size:85%;">[Montreal Gazette]</span><br /><br />He told police that he figured it was okay to speed because he was unlikely to hit a goat.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hmm. Guess that driver has never seen Canada's main weapon in the fight to slow speeders: the Moose.</span><br /></span><span style="font-family:times new roman;"></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-15927824571832247232006-12-31T10:29:00.000-05:002006-12-31T10:49:46.887-05:00Anti-war Christmas Tree Unacceptable to United Way<span style="font-family: times new roman;"><span style="font-size:130%;">Anti-war decorations on a Christmas tree <span style="font-size:100%;">were offensive to someone in the United Way in Burlington, Ontario <span style="font-size:85%;">[Montreal Gazette] <span style="font-size:100%;">so the tree was removed from its charity auction.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: times new roman;">The tree </span></span></span></span></span> was decorated with Christmas crackers, poppies and a platoon of toy soldiers by Pakistan-born artist Asma Arshad Mahmood. She entitled the piece of art "Merry Christmas from Mesopotamia, lest we forget."<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;"><span style="font-family: arial;">Quite right. </span>Christmas is not, <span style="font-family: arial;">of course, a time to encourage peace and an end to war. The tree is a pagan symbol and Christianity itself has a long history of torture, blood, gore, prejudice and discrimination.<br /><br />Just as Jesus said: "Think not that I am come to send peace on earth; I came not to send peace, but a sword. " [Matthew, 10:34]<br /> </span></span><br /></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-1164836936978512992006-11-29T16:32:00.000-05:002006-11-29T17:36:17.233-05:00Nothing To Crow About<span style="font-size:150%;"><span style="font-family: times new roman;">Crows are flocking to our cities. <span style="font-size:80%;">Murders of crows are blanketing Charlottetown, P.E.I.'s </span></span></span> waterfront and have previously inundated Woodstock, Ontario where at least 40,000 crows outnumbered human residents. <span style="font-size:78%;">[Canadian Press]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:130%;">The noise and feces of these murders disturb and annoy their human hosts. In Charlottetown the City Council is reluctant to spend the necessary money to shoo away the birds with "high-pitched bird distress and and predator calls".<br /><br />One councillor suggested his colleagues fear the crows might migrate to their own backyards.<br /><br />A solution is still being sought.<br /><br /><span style="font-family: arial;">Strange that the City Council doesn't see the obvious: why not make crow pie a delicacy, in the clever way that the French made slimy snails (ugh!) and slithery oysters (double ugh!) into gourmet foods.<br /><br />Oh, right. No City Councillor is going to eat crow.<br /></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-1159543562026413982006-09-29T11:01:00.000-04:002006-09-29T11:26:02.056-04:00Fortune for the Fortune Teller<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">78-year-old Sophie Evon <span style="font-size:100%;">is wanted by the police after scamming a broken-hearted Seattle woman out of $220,000 and fleeing from Toronto to British Columbia.<span style="font-size:85%;">[Canwest News Service].<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Seems the 26-year-old video store clerk victim was depressed after being dumped by her boyfriend. She sought the palm-reading help of Evon's daughter-in-law Sylvia Lee (now serving 18 months in a U.S. prison).<br /><br />The two fortune-telling crooks (are there any other kind? It's like saying some psychics are genuine) put the victim through a ritual of cleansing her of evil which cost the clerk some $10,000. Then the love-sick victim was persuaded by these heartless criminals to help the ex-boyfriend who was, according to them, in serious<br />trouble. He could be helped, they claimed, by their praying for 24 hours over substantial cash. So the victim liquidated the retirement savings of her parents, handed over $209,500 in $100 bills and never received a penny back.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Too bad she didn't realise the fortune tellers were preying.</span><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-1154275869669256592006-07-30T11:20:00.000-04:002007-11-24T08:32:52.443-05:00Convicted Mum Killer Can Become A Lawyer<span style="font-size:130%;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;">He stabbed his naked mother 40 times <span style="font-size:100%;">and slashed her throat to end her suffering. He was sentenced to four years and 10 months. Served a less than a year.<br /><br />Now, years later, he is deemed by the Quebec Professions Tribunal to have the right qualities to become a lawyer. <span style="font-size:78%;">[Montreal Gazette]<br /><br /><span style="font-size:100%;">Following the ruling The Quebec Bar Association gave up its 10-year fight to prevent Sebastien Brousseau being admitted to the bar.<br /><br />The three Tribunal judges claimed the bar's opposition arose from subjective views, not from evidence. Contrary to the bar's assertion that Brousseau lacks the characteristics necessary to instill confidence in the public and the judicial system, the Tribunal noted that many lawyers and non-lawyers signed affidavits attesting that Brousseau is not the same 21-year-old he was in 1990. That indeed, he'd earned the respect of his law-school professors, lawyers and employers.<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;">Gives a whole new meaning to the expression "cut-throat lawyer."</span><br /></span></span></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18763173.post-1150147040765870652006-06-12T16:58:00.000-04:002006-06-14T09:12:08.470-04:00Feel nauseous?<span style="font-size:130;"><span style="font-family:times new roman;"><b>Quebec's auditor-general is alarmed</b><span style="font-size:75;"> that restaurant inspectors -- searching for health risks such as E-coli and salmonella -- in Montreal are doing a more thorough job than their counterparts in the rest of the Province.<br /><br />His solution? The Province should take over Montreal restaurant inspections.<span style="font-size:78%;">[Montreal Gazette]</span><br /><br />Right. Why raise standards when you can lower them?<br /><br /><span style="font-family:arial;"><span style="font-size:100%;">Sometimes you need a strong stomach to digest our politicians' silliness</span>.</span><br /></span></span></span>Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/05490766754188162172noreply@blogger.com0