What's been going on?

• Britney Spears walked off the stage in Vancouver. The reason: weed. It appears fans in the stadium were smoking and it 'interfered' with the crew and Britney. So the show was stopped for a half hour. Fans complained the rest of the night and still are complaining. My take: Britney had every right to walk off stage. Can you imagine having to huff and puff (no pun intended) as you dance and sing while people are smoking up or just plain smoking?

• A G-20 protester died in London after he was apparently knocked down. Reports allege that a video shows the man being knocked down by police. yeah I know this is old news by now.

• Kal Penn was infamously killed off from House, much to the dismay of loyal fans. However, it turns out that the reason for his departure is that he's taken up an Associate Director's job at the White House! He'll be helping with Arts programs in communities and schools and so forth. It's quite a pay cut, but it's stories like these that prove that some stars actually are telling the truth when they say they want to "give back".

• A rally took place in Baghdad to mark the anniversary of the fall of Saddam Hussein - only thing is, they're not celebrating, instead they were protesting against the U.S., chanting that President Obama should withdraw U.S. troops.  I wonder when they'll hold a rally for catching Osama...oh wait...they haven't caught him yet :s

• Closer to home: A lot of unions and pensioners are expressing outrage at the Ontario government, stating that Ontario "ought" to have enough funds to cover their pensions. For example, Premier announced that Ontario won't be able to cover pensions for GM employees should GM go bankrupt. Honestly the question is should my tax dollars cover their pensions, if their tax dollars won't cover my pension or my mom's pension, or others who work in other firms or labour positions and are not part of GM? That's the question that Ontarians and Canadians will have to explore because it dips into a larger ideological issue: Just how Socialist is Canada? Or better yet, can we afford to stick to our "socialist" okay fine "welfare" tendancies? I only use the word socialist, since our neighbours down under always like to throw that at us. But I've always been very proud that our government takes a positive approach to our country by adopting such socialist policies, such as regulations, public programs, etc. But covering one industries pensions during a recession that's quickly tipping towards a depression?? Really?