The Archives of November, 2005

Gomery-mania is running rampant across the country as the most anticipated publication since Tommy Hunter's Swingers' Guide to Thunder Bay is released to the Canadian public!

Justice John Gomery, who, coincidentally enough is the head of the Gomery Inquiry, has reaped a huge windfall on the basis of the success of his debut book, Who is Responsible? Published reports indicate that Gomery has been given a whopping five million dollar advance for the highly anticipated second phase of his report on the federal sponsorship program, tentatively to be titled Gomery, Phase II: Recommendations.

NDP Leader Jack Layton was injured last night, after suffering a fall off of his high horse.

We asked average, everyday, salt-of-the-earth, couldn't-pick-the-Prime Minister-out-of-a-police-lineup Canadians what they thought about the prospect of a winter election campaign...

After painstaking, exhaustive research, we have assembled the 25 Least Important Books in Canadian History. And unlike those lazy asses at the Literary Review, who compiled their list in chronological fashion, we ranked ours from least, to...less least important.

The very night the Martin minority government fell, police had to be called to Parliament Hill to break up a fistfight between Prime Minister Paul Martin and Opposition Leader Stephen Harper.