The überculture kids are videoblogging from their tour with the Waltown film, which is taking them from Victoria to Whitehorse to Saint John's.
I'm not sure if it's a function of the press not having anything else to cover on new year's day, if it's a function of a lot of alcohol consumption and a pressure to have a blast, or if it's a sign of things to come, but 2007 is off to a rocky start.
In BC, two teenagers were attacked while walking a trail, prison guards are cracking down on inmates in New Brunswick, a female Montreal bus driver was attacked by two guys with a beer bottle, someone rammed their minivan into a house in PEI, a kid in Alberta died of exposure after wandering away from a party, three people were shot in separate incidents in Toronto, a Winnipeg man was in critical condition after crashing into a snow plow, and a boy was shot in the abdomen and a woman was found dead in New Brunswick.
Tretiak, the most famous Commie hockey player possibly in history, is back on the ice in Canada.
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