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I know that media types run stories like this only to make people laugh and shake their heads. I don't usually waste my time with them. But today I fell for it. Somebody out there wants the Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) to do away with their traditional winter hats. You see, the hats are lined with Muskrat fur. To which I can only say: it's a rat, it's a rat, its a rat. It's a rat, get it? It's not rare, it's not endangered, it's not even great to look at. I'm not saying it deserves to die horribly, but on the world scale of things to think about... it's really not on my radar. ***** Speaking of not on my radar, how about that MacLean's Magazine, ever the hot source for breaking news in Canada, from sea to sea? That useless bit of trash written for and consumed by the over 50 crowd in central Canada (probably same ones that can't get enough of the Globe and Mail) is warning us that, *gasp* Fox News is coming to Canadian Digital cable, and we had better brace ourselves for it. The horror! It's a threat to our namby pampy Liberal nature! Not to mention that it's happening during the same year as Sheila Copps leaving the House of Commons and the NHL strike, which is really dirty and unfair. It's all a conspiracy anyway. This is a magazine that I will never forget. A full decade after the Rave scene started, it put an expose on the "New and Dangerous World of Raves" on its cover and confirmed all of my worst suspicions about it. How come they don't seem to care about AlJezeera being a hairs breath from coming onto our cable networks?

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