{"id":15337,"date":"2012-06-02T10:26:21","date_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/?p=15337"},"modified":"2012-06-02T10:27:12","modified_gmt":"2012-06-02T15:27:12","slug":"the-end-of-a-weird-week-in-canadian-journalism","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/2012\/06\/02\/the-end-of-a-weird-week-in-canadian-journalism\/","title":{"rendered":"The end of a weird week in Canadian journalism"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.canoe.ca\/davidakin\/politics\/the-week-in-canadian-journalism-it-was-a-strange-one\/\" target=\"_blank\">David Akin<\/a> on all the unusual happenings over the past week:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I suspect Alex felt that way because he and his staff had to deal with a) the ongoing battle between students and Premier Jean Charest b) a grisly murder that forced police in Montreal to issue an international warrant for kitten-killing gay porn star Luka Magnotta  c) a freak rain storm that put 70 mm of water on the ground in 30 minutes pretty much flooding most of downtown Montreal for an afternoon. But enough of that, let&#8217;s get to God using a bear to deliver God&#8217;s own brand of justice [. . .]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The corpse of a man eaten by a B.C. bear was that of a convicted killer, officials have confirmed.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;46 mm of rain in half an hour floods Montreal.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>On Friday, heavy rain would contribute to flooding which would end up flooding and shutting down Toronto&#8217;s Union Station on Friday causing commuter chaos<\/p>\n<p>[. . .]<\/p>\n<p>The Montreal flash floods occurred as Quebec Premier Jean Charest was trying to broker a deal with post-secondary students who have been &#8220;on strike&#8221; for more than 3 months because they don&#8217;t want to pay an extra $350 or so a year in tuition &mdash; over five years. Charest has been over-patient. The students have been, as they say on St. Urbain Street, &#8220;stiff-necked&#8221;. So the two sides met and then talks broke down. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>All that, plus the kitten-killing, body dismembering fugitive porn star&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Akin on all the unusual happenings over the past week: I suspect Alex felt that way because he and his staff had to deal with a) the ongoing battle between students and Premier Jean Charest b) a grisly murder that forced police in Montreal to issue an international warrant for kitten-killing gay porn star [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,28],"tags":[343,325,213,113,206,207,101],"class_list":["post-15337","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cancon","category-media","tag-crimeandpunishment","tag-montreal","tag-newspapers","tag-quebec","tag-severeweather","tag-toronto","tag-tv"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2hpV6-3Zn","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15337"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15340,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15337\/revisions\/15340"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quotulatiousness.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}