The national anthem figured prominently on Google Trends this week thanks to the Harper government’s attempt to slip an edit to O Canada into the speech from the throne. CBC Radio’s Q asked tweeps to comment: @CBCRadioQ “The ‘O Canada’ Debate: Action or Distraction? tell the Q blog: cbc.ca/q #anthem”
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Canada’s privacy commissioner, Jennifer Stoddart, really “harshed Google’s Buzz” this week, reminding the Mountain View, Calif., company its new Buzz social media service needed to comply with Canadian privacy laws. As @mashable reported, this is the same office that forced major changes on Facebook last year …
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Friday, at the time of writing, was the start of the Winter Olympics, so naturally Canada’s trending topics were SeaBus and Lonsdale Quay, not #Olympics. Apparently public transit is a bigger issue in Vancouver than a worldwide event. Nanaimo resident @sema4 cracked: “I love the fact that SeaBus and Lonsdale Quay [...]
Greetings, Tweeps. Welcome to this week’s roundup of the weird and wonderful from the Twitterverse.
First up — what do #balloonboy and @PremierStelmach have in common? Turns out they’re both full of hot air.
One is a publicity hungry scoundrel stretching the truth, and the other is a six-year-old boy who pretended to be adrift in a [...]
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