When, in the late 1960s, Canada decriminalized gay sex between consenting adults, legalized contraception and abortion (in, you know, some cases, as determined by a committee, but still), then-Justice Minister Pierre Trudeau justified this in part by saying that the state had no place in the bedrooms of the nation. Cool quote, right? And it gets ( Read more... )

Kill me now. I've never actually had a term paper deadline move up, but that's exactly what happened. The prof gave us one deadline at the beginning of the semester, so we all (or at least, I) budgeted work time accordingly; he just realized that he needed to have the grades in sooner than he expected, so he moved the deadline forward (that is, ( Read more... )

Okay, so here's the thing. I basically hate cars, because as a perpetual pedestrian, I find that way too many drivers are rather distracted, and prone to, you know, almost running people over and stuff. One of those distracting things? Cell phones! So Ontario has a ban on driving with cell-phones, which I'm basically in favour of. Except ( Read more... )

No, seriously.

The Hall of Fame got into Sid's pants.

...Crosby has donated to the Hall the hockey pants he wore in Team Canada’s riveting gold medal win Sunday against the United States at the Vancouver Winter Olympics ( Read more... )

Or something.

In 2009, ( Read more... )