Tag Archives: canada

Nothing to see here – just a seagull-eating octopus

By 6000 | 6000 | May 3, 2012

Om nom nom. We’ve all had that cheeky seagull have a pop at our chips or our ice cream, but this time, the boot is on the other tentacle, as a juvenile glaucous-winged gull ends up being lunch for a Giant Pacific Octopus. The event, witnessed by Ginger Morneau, her husband Ken, and brother Lou [...]

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They (we) hate us (them) for what we (they) did to them (us)

By 6000 | 6000 | September 9, 2009

Following allegations from his wife that he only married her to stay in Canada, the Brandon Huntley saga rumbles on, with new allegations surfacing today that the “white” man that “blacks” love to hate may not actually be “white” at all. Which make his ongoing allegations that black people attack him simply because he is [...]

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Quick but important…

By 6000 | 6000 | September 7, 2009

Having just arrived home after a hellish day, I find that I have a hellish evening in front of me. Although I wanted to blog about Justice Malala’s column in The Times this morning, I have to empty the old study completely this evening so that it can be converted into a playroom for the [...]

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Ruth Archibald: A brave, brave woman

By 6000 | 6000 | September 3, 2009

In a country in which white people “stick out like sore thumbs” and “are persecuted by black people”; a country in which “there is a hatred of what we did to them” and “it’s all about the colour of your skin”, I give you The Canadian High Commissioner, Her Excellency Ruth Archibald. (She’s the one on [...]

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Huntley never laid charges with cops

By 6000 | 6000 | September 2, 2009

Oh dear. The Brandon Huntley case just gets worse and worse and worse for him, for Canada and for the hundreds of paranoid expats who have jumped on the negativity bandwagon, as the Mail & Guardian reports: Brandon Huntley, the South African who was granted refugee status by Canada, never laid any charges with the [...]

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