Which MPs are Cylons?
The Conservatives will be holding a major policy convention in November. And what better place to have it than Winnipeg? “At least mosquito season is over,” notes Winnipeg MP Steven Fletcher. When asked if people can crash at his place, the Tory jokes, “Hey, I have standards.” Fletcher recently confessed to Capital Diary he is a huge Battlestar Galactica fan and is super excited over its fourth and, sadly, final season. He says he sees parallels between the show and Parliament. “It’s hard to tell the humans from the Cylons [some members of the cybernetic race take humanoid form].” Hundreds of butts on the Hill As the snowbanks melt around the Hill, hundreds of cigarette butts are revealing themselves. There was one nasty cluster right at the entrance to the East Block. And soon another kind of smoke will grace the Hill as April 20 approaches and marijuana demonstrators light up spliffs on Parliament’s lawn in honour of 420, the slang term for marijuana. Each year on April 20, hundre
