On sale now for $7.55 (you save $3.40) at Walmart:
How Walmart Is Destroying America And The World: And What You Can Do About It
Ha! I don’t know what’s funnier, Walmart selling an anti-Walmart book or alarmist leftist anti-corporate literature achieving its ends by selling at the world’s largest corporation… Walmart.
Whichever is funnier, one thing is for sure…
Advantage: Walmart
UPDATE: Looks like Walmart has removed the item. Funny while it lasted though.
I don’t know the exact date that this happened but CBC.ca has finally joined up with the rest of the online and syndicated world and has started to offer its news in RSS format. All of the good stuff is there including Canadian, International and local news (including Toronto, Ottawa and even the North – you can now get news updates from Iqaluit as it happens)
RSS is syndicated content that is easily read by a news reader and thus notifies you whenever new content is posted… think of instant messaging meets news.
Ahem, this would be a good time to plug my own RSS feed.
I sent CBC news an email asking for the service back in the summer and received this reply:
Following your request, it is impossible to send you any RSS feed due to our strict policy. We understand your point, but we do not send it to particulars. We hope this will answer your questions
I guess that either enough people asked for it or enough of their staff were already receiving RSS content from the New York Times or CNN… which reminds me of a tour I took of the CBC newsroom a couple of years ago… I asked a staffer where CBC gets most of their news to which she replied, “We watch CNN a lot”
Paul Martin is touring Northern Africa and meeting “a lot of leaders”… and… yes, is actually on Christmas vacation.
Yahoo News has more:
But his staff threw into doubt whether there would be more work than play during the tour. “We’re discussing a courtesy call with the king and prime minister of Morocco, but nothing is firm,” said Melanie Gruer, Martin’s deputy communications director.
She could not say what other leaders Martin was referring to, but said he would be doing a lot of reading of official documents.
Ha, sounds like a familiar excuse! Kinda like how some lawyers will mock a client at lunch and bill the account for the hour… or how some graduate students will take a day off for *ahem* “reading” (sleeping).
Have a Merry Christmas Mr. Prime Minister! Everybody deserves some time off. At least you vacation under the guise of work rather than under a cloak of secrecy as Jean Chrétien was known to do:
Jean Chretien’s staff jealously guarded Chretien’s holiday plans and never revealed them, though it was generally known he spent most of his winter vacations in Florida