by Sean Orr | How to make a riot bigger: Video shows Montreal police pepper spraying bar patrons during protest melee. Ain’t nobody better be fucking with my pint of Le Fin Du Monde, yo.

Tweet of the day c/o Stephen Taylor: “Why does violence only ever emerge during leftwing demonstrations? They own the mantle of domestic violent political extremism”. Because nobody ever brought a gun to a Tea Party demo.

Harpoon Stephen: Killer whale expert out of work as feds cut ocean-pollution monitoring positions. Maybe this alone will be the single issue that sinks Harper (aka Captain Ahab).

A theme developing: Cuts at Environment Canada mean fewer left to clean up oil-spill mess. If your irony-metre just went through the roof, you are not alone.

Robyn Urback on shocking anti-male hatred on the SFU campus. More shocking than the real violence they are talking about?

We Built This City on Boosterism: 100 Years of complaining.

That is not a bubble. This is a bubble. Actually, they’re both bubbles, so don’t just take City Caucasian’s word for it. Check in with Bob “Everything Is Going To Be Alright” Rennie, too.

First World Problems: High-speed Internet remains a fantasy for many Canadians. I wanted to read that article, but the page took forever to load.

Gloria Mackarenko practicing for Bard on the Beach: “The boyfriend. Upset about the break-up. He loaded his van with weapons and explosives and burst into her home. It happened. Last evening. In Kamloops.”

Deadly weekend: a scuba diver dies, a woman dead after falling off a Hornby Island cliff, and a Canadian woman dies on Mount Everest in the notorious ‘death zone’. I think the message is clear. Stop doing stuff.

Painting: “Emperor Haute Couture” by Margaret Sutherland.