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December is here, and what better way to celebrate the season of giving than by enjoying the spoils of our Black Friday splurges. For more than 185,000 lucky Americans, this will include playing with their new guns, according to the number of firearm background checks conducted by the FBI on that day. This was a record number, apparently.
Less than a week later and a day after a tragic shooting in San Bernadino, California, that killed 14 people and wounded 21, the U.S. Senate voted against enhanced background checks for future gun purchases. Guess they didn’t think the two things were related.
In Canadian politics, our leaders were in Paris this week attending the United Nations climate-change conference, which some experts are saying could actually produce some tangible results in the form of a worldwide deal that could reduce the effects of global warming.
Canada was well represented at the conference; 383 Canadians were in attendance, which was more than the total of those attendees from both the U.S. and the U.K. put together.
Before we get too proud of Canada’s contribution to the world, here’s something to bring us back down to earth: a Vancouver telecom software CEO spoke this week about why he decided to pay $20,000 for a painting of former Prime Minister Stephen Harper reclining—in the buff.
The purchaser said he bought it because he is a fan of satire. I personally prefer reading The New Yorker’s Borowitz Report—but maybe that’s just me.
