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So, it’s snowing or something. Shockingly, things continue to happen around the world.

Canada

• Whistler apparently received advanced warning of safety problems with its gondola system.
• Harper’s ‘fiscal conservatism’ apparently also includes a $30 billion deficit.
• Mats Sundin moves to Vancouver. Enjoy the rain, ye of perennial disappointment.

World

• Mark Felt, aka Deep Throat, aaka the man who brought down Nixon, died yesterday.
• The Taliban has blown up a shipment of Turkeys destined for British troops. They’re like the Grinch, but with more RPGs.
• Ankey, Iowa is using garlic salt to remove ice from its roads.
• Evil bastard Colonel Théoneste Bagosora, one of the architects of the Rwandan Genocide, has been jailed for life.
• A Catholic Priest in Kansas City has removed every book about Barack Obama from his school’s library because of his opinion on abortion. Remember kidsL organized relgion loves censorship.
• The last statue of dictator Francisco Franco has been removed from Spain.
• The $54 million lawsuit over a missing pair of pants has been rejected…again.

Media

• Twitter launches two unrelated, but strangely complementary, apps: Tweetmas, allowing you to send Christmas lists to your friends, and Twitpay, a micro-payment utility.
• BBC’s iPlayer is now available for Mac.

Science & Tech

• The Arctic ice meltdown is 20 years ahead of current climate change models. That can’t be good.
• New footballs to be equipped with sensors to help refs make better calls.
• An otherwise healthy hippo has turned bright pink, apparently overnight.
• The universe’s oldest known water vapor has been discovered.

Pop Culture

• Majel Barrett Roddenberry, first lady of Star Trek, has died. The Enterprise’s computers have fallen silent.
• Oliver Twist was  a sham! Victorian Workhouse gruel was actually quite nourishing.
• Baz Luhrmann buys the rights to “The Great Gatsby”.
• Tron 2 will be shot is 3D. Hawt!
• Royal Canadian Air Farce, the least funny show on television, is mercifully taping its last episode.
• Gawker has decreed it is no longer cool to use the word “Douchbag”.
• Help select the 100 greatest Looney Tunes.