Yesterday’s News: Tuesday, 31 May 2011

It’s that time again. Let’s take a look at a bunch of interesting stuff that happened yesterday, on the web and around the world.

• The Globe and Mail reported that stress disorders affect 25% of Canadian soldiers returning from Afghanistan

• They’ve also reported that Mayor Rob Ford is calling on a court to delay a review of his campaign expenses

• The CBC reported that carbon emissions related to energy consumption apparently hit a record high in 2010

• Macleans, meanwhile, noted that “the federal government for the UN deliberately omitted data showing that Canada’s oilsands accounted for a 20 per cent increase in emissions”

• The White House posted a transcript of President Obama’s remarks at yesterday’s Memorial Day service

• HuffPost Canada ran an open letter to the Prime Minister – from Raffi!

• rabble.ca hosted a forum on progressive activism in the age of the Harper majority, which you can now watch online

• BoingBoing reported on an unlikely confrontation yesterday between the KKK and the Westboro Baptist Church, which must have been a real meeting of the minds

• Also on BoingBoing, PBS went and got itself hacked

• The chairman of Fox News has a bomb-proof office meant to protect him from gays and al-Qaeda, according to Talking Points Memo

• A blogger over at the official Green Party website shared a phone call she recently got from “another new vote,” which seems a bit crass

• Lifehacker posted a list of projects you can tackle on the extra day of a long weekend

Finally, over at democracy101.ca, I posted this, this and this.

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