Someone once called it a “continent-wide parade of dysfunction”, if memory serves.
FCPP’s 2nd Annual Aboriginal Governance Index.
Preparing for the Worst.
Global Warming Speeds Onset Of Car-B-Que Season: Scores of cars and several schools have been vandalized or burned in the past week. Police could give no reason, but said that unusually mild weather and the closure of schools for a winter break might have contributed.
Yours in the comments.

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you’ve got to hand it to these guys… poisoning the infidels
and scoring megabucks off it… at the same time.
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Hardboiled: “for those of you (just now) wound up about the Beslan massacre,”
I don’t get your point. The Mackenzie article was written by a former military officer who is an expert on terrorists and who testified at a US Senate committee hearing on same.
Certainly tactics are different when fighting terrorists but what is your point? Are authorities cognizant of the threat to schools who practice such insanity as “gun free zones”?
Did you know that laughing gas causes food??
It says so here…. so it must be true.
http://www.mb.com.ph/ENVI20080221117528.html