HOW OUTRAGEOUS IT IS
LOATHE IT / LOVE IT
OUR DEBT
A Statistics Canada report shows Canadians carry $145 in debt for every $100 of disposable income. Consider that the real New Year's hangover.
DRUNK PILOTS
A United Airlines pilot admits to a London court that he had, indeed, been drinking before showing up to work. Presumably, he had the same idea of many passengers. Getting drunk makes the flight go faster
AIRPORT SECURITY
Transport Canada announces that passengers travelling to the U.S. may travel with only "one of more" of 13 specified items. Hopefully, the body scans aren't designed to catch a smuggled issue of US Weekly.
TECHNOLOGY AND PORN
More than 100,000 gizmo-mad geeks descend on the Las Vegas strip for the annual Consumer Electronics Show. Is it coincidental or just good planning that they will share the strip with attendees of the AVN adult video awards?
EDMONTON OILERS
The team racks up a nearly $17,000. bill at a Calgary restaurant on New Year's Eve, but manages to haggle the owner down to $12,381. Cheapskates.
OLYMPIC OPENING CEREMONIES
We currently hope it will be excessive, considering that the choreographer, Jean Grand-Maitre describes the planning process as "doing 10 Cirque du Soleil shows at the same time."
THE BURJ KHALIFA
A city, buckling under a crashing debt load, unveils the world's tallest erection. Excessive? This is Dubai. At least they renamed it after the man who bailed them out.