Senate Speaker Noel Kinsella jumps into the surprisingly heated debate about whether or not the prime minister downed the wafer -- otherwise known to many Christians as the body of christ, given for thee, to be washed down with a little wine, known in my church, as "the Blood of the new Covenant, which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins"-- at Romeo Leblanc's funeral:

The Saskatoon Star-Phoenix was among several papers which ran this story today but SP reporter Jeremy Warren made it better with this little twist:

But in his criticism of his colleague, [Trost] did not mention his government funds Saskatoon's Pride parade. The Saskatoon Diversity Network received $9,000 from Canadian Heritage this year for last June's Pride Festival.

Now, a little birdie helpfully provides the following list of gay and lesbian (and bisexual, etc.) events funded by the Harper government:

For a while now, I've been 'tweeting' whenever the government issues a press release announcing that it is spending some money. I'm making a couple of changes to the way I've been going about this ...

The NRU, though, does more than just produce isotopes. It's a research reactor and is used by scientists in Canada and around the world to do all sorts of work. AECL -- or whoever ends up managing the facility once a federal government review of the Crown corporation is done -- is putting those engineers not involved in the NRU repairs to work on a variety of other tasks for the future of Chalk River Laboratories. Just got this notice from the Canadian Nuclear Safety Commission, Canada's nuclear safety regulator, that AECL is seeking the CNSC's stamp of approval for some of those long-term plans ...