Angel >> Beer-swillin' Santa In keeping with the season, local micro-brewery GMT, makers of Belle Gueule and Tremblay, made a special-edition Christmas beer with Santa on the label. Then the Société des alcools, concerned with the moral implications of putting a children's icon on an adult beverage, ordered all 6,000 cases off the shelves. But after a visit from GMT's lawyers, the Société reversed its decision. So enhance your Christmas cheer with some Christmas beer--alcohol for your inner child.

Insect >> Federal Health Minister Allan Rock Hard to understand this man: once renowned for his intellectual capacities, he seems to be quickly mastering the flip-flop. As justice minister, he led the charge to explicitly ban discrimination against gays and lesbians in the Canadian Bill of Rights. So why, as health minister, on the occasion of World AIDS Day, did Rock give a speech in which he said that AIDS most afflicts "those who are marginalized"? First he helps bring homosexuals into the mainstream, then he pushes them back out again. Hey, Rock[head]: make up your mind.