Hello everyone and happy Friday!
Full disclosure: I stole the joke “It’s Frie-day!”
It’s so funny! How could I not?
And because I did, there’s lots of delicious feel good news here for you.
Now that joke is a Kaitlin McNabb original.
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Sean Devlin asks “what is terrorism?” Looks like it all comes down to which type of paperwork you’re filing.
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I kinda love that Brigette DePape is referred to as the ‘Rogue Page’. She’s the new Canadian superhero: the Rogue Page.
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These young women set up a gender equality bake sale: $1.00 for boys and $0.77 for girls.
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So here’s where we’re at with Harper right now: a controversial right-wing forum group, which has been sued numerous times for defamation, is now rebooting as a site to fight Bill C-51 and Harper.
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Is it just me or does belting it out in a car with Mariah Carey (not to mention James Corden) seem like the most fun?
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“Vancouver Police ordered to show more respect to transgender people” YUP.
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Harper keeps trying to shut down safe-injection sites because he hates facts, apparently. Luckily, Vancouver’s Insite received an exemption.
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Laverne Cox spoke to a sold out crowd in Ottawa (and probably Toronto).
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A group of Diné women and their supporters embarked on a 350-mile walk as an act of cultural revitalization.
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Serena Williams does her version of Beyonce’s ‘7/11’. And it’s awesome.
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The NDP wants temporary foreign workers on four-year visas to be able to apply for citizenship.
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This two-year-old Indian girl set a new national record in archery. Let that sink in.
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Everyone, don’t even worry, the Harper government’s on it because it’s only going to drop “very smart bombs” programmed to understand the complexities of the Syrian conflict.
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This university catalogue accidently became the perfect metaphor for America.
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John Tory backs ranked ballots for the next Toronto civic election. I was surprised as you.
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Let’s continue the age-old discussion of Dean vs. Jess.
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And your cat news for the week: Cat are breaking into houses. Doll houses.
Kaitlin McNabb is rabble’s news and books coordinator and she loves french fries and bad jokes. Follow her on twitter @kaitlinmcnabb.
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