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I am not an audiophile, so I am writing this post for both you and me. I have spent a great deal of time scouring the interwebs looking for some new Canadian music by the ladies. Since, at BlogHer we are all about the 80’s. I like lots of different types of music, from folksy to rock me like a hurricane. The first lady I came across was “Lenore” , just the one name. She is folksy, and I like it. There are several mp3 samples on her site, which is important to me when scanning for new music. This bit from her bio was funny:

On this past Friday, October 5, Toronto and the Royal Canadian Mint made news because the Canadian Mint claimed they owned the words “one cent” and you can’t use them. The city of Toronto has started a campaign to get the federal government to return one cent of the national Goods and Services Tax (GST) to Toronto, which is struggling from decades of federal cuts in their budget payments from the Federal government. Source: boingboing

A big bodacious derby racing clothes horse. In Canada, there is not as much in the stores as there is in the US. I know this is partially because of sheer population, us being 1/10 of the US, but it makes for some bad selection. My inner (and outer) fashionista weeps when I walk into a Macys or Nordstrom’s or Layne Bryant. Plus sized American ladies, no more complaining until you have to come and shop in a smaller country. You can complain that sometimes, the exact same sweater in a “regular” size, often costs 5% more in a plus size.

Since all things Canadian are my blogher “beat”, I am writing my post this week about Steven Truscott. If you have missed this story, Steven Truscott was sentenced to be hanged at age 14 in 1959 for a murder of a young classmate. He was innocent. Paroled in 1969, he disappeared, made a new life, had a family, some children and a decent job. This is sort of a difficult post for me to write. I think of how innocent and unaware of such things at 14 years old. I cried when I first heard about this story, and as I write, tears come to my eyes again. Fourteen years old, sentenced to death, a record for the youngest death-row inmate.

I was going to get all political on you guys this week and talk about Canada’s involvement in Afghanistan, but my heart needs lighter fare to start the week.