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Canada

• Jack Layton urges a “Buy Canadian” policy in response to the USA’s proposed “Buy American” clause. Unfortunately, he has failed to realize that we cannot live on lumber, crude oil and doughnuts alone.

World

• Everyone loves a good ol’ fashioned trade war. Get my Tariff out, Ma. The EU is in the backyard again.
• Airport jousting is apparently the hot new thing in Scotland.
• Aeroflot passenger concerns over a potentially drunk pilot elicits worst PR statement ever: “Really, all he has to do is press a button and the plane flies itself. The worst that could happen is he’ll trip over something in the cockpit.”
• Joe the Plumber is apparently now also a Republican strategy consultant. Desperate, much?

Media

• CBC broadcaster Russ Germain died yesterday. He will be missed.

Science & Tech

• A very unusual – and nudity-crammed – pagan mosaic has been found beneath the floor of an Italian church.

Pop Culture

• Take this super scientific Geek Social Aptitude Test. In a similar vein, MGK usefully classifies various phyla of nerdom by intensity.
• Dakota Fanning has spent approximately 1/3 of her life working on Coraline.
• Stephen Fry stuck in an elevator!
• A sequel to Donnie Darko is apparently in the works.
• A new website helpfully rates all those headset-wearing ladies cropping up in spam email and low-budget webpages.
• Drool.
• Times of stress (like, say, a global recession) make grammar nerds extra aggressive. Guard you apostrophes.
• Shark Tea Infuser adds a little fun to a rather stuffy beverage.