Since my stats tell me my loyal readers liked the Quasi-royalty sighting! yarn, here's two more about close encounters with the vice-regal.

On Monday, the BBC announced it would cut 2,000 jobs in programming, including news.

Here's BBC Online editor Pete Clifton's take on how the cuts will affect his service.

I live in the "Little Italy" part of Toronto, which has a big "Passion of the Christ" parade every Good Friday.

I watched a few minutes of the  parade while doing other stuff (hey, I'm agnostic; Easter's not a big spiritual deal to me), and have one observation.

Getting killed by a fellow Catholic while sticking up for poor, oppressed people doesn't put one on the fast track for sainthood in Pope John Paul II's church.

Some excerpts from a Globe and Mail story about Archbishop Oscar Romero by Michael Valpy:

It was actually Wednesday when Oscar Romero, archbishop of San Salvador, was slain by U.S.-backed death squads, but it's still a significant anniversary worth noting.