This article hits the high points, but how it could skip over Schwartz's, the Taj Mahal of smoked meat, is beyond me. :)

Here's an N-P article on Schwartz's. The Gobe and Mail did an Oct. 21 story on the new documentary Chez Schwartz's.

The Beeb: A nest of leftist anti-Christians overpopulated with city-loving, politically correct gays and ethnics who hate Americans and country people, or a diverse group of journalistic professionals who worship impartiality as the one true God?

I report. You decide.

If the global population continues to chew up resources at the current rate, then two Earths will be needed to sustain the global population by 2050, claims a new report by the World Wildlife Fund.

From the Beeb:

Heavy mobile use 'damages sperm'

Experts are calling for further research into the effect of mobiles on fertility Heavy use of mobile phones may damage men's fertility, a study has suggested. Researchers found those men who used a phone for four hours or more a day had fewer sperm and those they had moved less well and were of poorer quality. The Ohio study involving 364 men was presented to the American Society for Reproductive Medicine in New Orleans. But a UK expert said it was unlikely the phones were to blame, as they were in use and not near the testes, and it may be being sedentary was the cause.

A group called the Senlis Council released a report Tuesday that says why Canada should stay and help stabilize Afghanistan, it might well be going about it the wrong way.

Beeb reporter David Loyn managed to gain access to a group of Taliban in Helmand province. It sits just to the west of Kandahar, the province in which Canada's armed forces are operating.

A primer on British actor/comedian Sacha Baron Cohen's technique for duping his victims in 'Borat.'

Just one conflict in a low-income country can cost almost as much as the world spends on global aid in a year, says a committee of British MPs.