happy mutants See you tonight in Winnipeg! (then Denver, Austin, Houston…) (!) Cory Doctorow

crime Thief sues grocery store whose employees beat him up Rob Beschizza

trademark US Patent and Trademark Office thinks people will confuse a hockey team with a cooler Gail Sherman

star wars Star Wars back in theaters (in Ojibwe) Gail Sherman

911 Woman finds intruder asleep on her sofa, 911 operator suggests waking him David Pescovitz

Jesus Church replaces Jesus with Iron Man singing Chumbawamba Thom Dunn

ice paddling Video: In Winnipeg, you apparently don't need water to paddle a boat Carla Sinclair

crimes Couple attempts to steal furnace but cause gas leak that knocks them unconscious David Pescovitz

scams Clever new SEO scam hijacks Harvard emails and student blogs Thom Dunn

kickstarter Kickstart this cool new comic of North American folktales by Indigenous artists Thom Dunn

whistleblowers This "quasi-criminally" charged investor invited Edward Snowden to speak at conference, and Snowden exposed him Mark Frauenfelder

maps Light pollution map of the world Rob Beschizza

when animals attack Giant freshwater fish attacks woman and tears a chunk out of her leg Mark Frauenfelder

music video Band pays tribute to classic '80s music videos by re-creating them in their own Rusty Blazenhoff

futility closet In 1942, Winnipeg staged a Nazi invasion to promote the sale of war bonds Futility Closet

DIY New demand for very old farm tractors specifically because they're low tech David Pescovitz

music When you run out of gancha David Pescovitz

canada Greyhound abandons 400 remote communities in Canada Séamus Bellamy

Business Hells Angels around the world rally to downrank Manitoba businesses that don't serve outlaw bikers Cory Doctorow