Big news year so far

Is it just me or does 2011 seem to be disproportionately newsworthy?

In Newfoundland and Alberta their have been and will be party leadership battles. In both cases the outcomes of the winner of these battles with be the provinces' new premiers.

On the weather front many parts of North America seem to be getting a disproportionate amount of snow and stormy weather.

Of late there has been quite a brouhaha about the CRTC's UBB ruling and its eventual reversal (via Twitter) by the Harper government.

Then, of course, you have the mass demonstrations presently taking place in police/authoritarian states throughout the middle east and Northern Africa, the most prominent example being the anti-Mubarak protests in Cairo and Egypt generally. Oh yeah, and in response to these protests the Egyptian government closed down the internet in their country! What?

Oh yeah, and former members of the Tunisian regime showed up on Canada with their ill-gotten billions and were then stripped of their status as permanent residents (this otherwise major story has been completely overshadowed by the events going on in Egypt).

I am sure I am missing other major stories, but this year just seems to be been intense from the get go. I kind of hope that this level of intensity doesn't dog us throughout the year, I don't know if I will be able to handle it.

Score
Cameron 12
Neil 0