Fake news?

Anyone know if this is real?

A 12-year-old Quebec girl who felt so strongly about her end-of-year school trip that she took her father to court after he forbade her from going is at the centre of a case that challenges the authority of parental discipline.

This news story sets off all my fake news alarms.  And yet its being repeated over and over.

I really hope this is one of those Onion-esque articles that gets picked up as news…

Actorly bitching

Its a lean summer.  I have no fringe show on the horizon.  No Summerworks. I do have a show in the works that will start rehearsing in August…but that seems so far away right now.

You guessed it. I’m jonesing for some theatre to do.

I’d also kinda like to get back to some Shakespeare, which I haven’t performed in…well, a year. 

I’ll keep patient, and hopefully either something will come up, or I’ll be able to pass the time until the project in August starts up.

Jim Prentice on Search Engine

CBC radio’s Search Engine had ten minutes of Jim Prentice’s time on the latest episode.  They had asked listeners for specific scenarios from the real world to ask Prentice directly if the actions within the scenarios were legal under the bill.  They took some of these suggested scenarios directly to Prentice, and asked him to answer them.

Put on the spot, Prentice had a hard time being specific.  He used lots of weasel words to answer the question without answering it.  He deliberately misunderstood at least one question (or so it seemed to me) in order to give a “no that’s not illegal” long answer, and then when corrected, he quickly said “yes that would be illegal”. At one point, he seemed uncertain about his own bill, but that might just have been because he was unprepared to be asked specific questions about it.  Its pretty clear though, that he didn’t like being asked specific questions about the bill.  And why would he?  After all, he doesn’t really want people looking closely at the bill.  Because then you might actually see through his rhetoric to find that its not the “balanced” bill he keeps claiming it is.

You can listen to this episode by getting it from the CBC’s podcast page.  Its worth the download.