Angel >> Equality Party Leader and anti-partitionist-anti-terrorist litigant Keith Henderson Henderson is no media darling, but he deserves credit for his civil lawsuit against MLNQ leader Raymond Villeneuve. Even though the police said there wasn't sufficient evidence to lay criminal charges, Henderson decided that Villeneuve's death threats against him were grounds enough to sue. The lawsuit has Villeneuve recanting his entire life's work: in a statement last weekend, Villeneuve says he has disbanded the MLNQ, and intends heretofore to follow the non-violent teachings of Mahatma Gandhi and Martin Luther King. "He says he's destroyed the membership list for the MLNQ, but who knows?" says a skeptical Henderson, who will pursue his case regardless of Villeneuve's newfound genteel demeanour.

Insect >> Multinational macro-brewery Molson O'Keefe We're fully aware that political correctness is out of fashion, and that one must not be overly rigid in the enforcement of social taboos. Nevertheless, the Big Brewery's indulgence in ethnic stereotyping in its TV ads is positively mind-boggling. In a recent commercial spot for O'Keefe beer, a group of Caucasian men burst into laughter at the comment, "It must be complicated for the Chinese to drink beer with their chopsticks!" Ha, ha. I suppose it's equally complicated when they're busy with the laundry, too. Molson has pulled the ad, saying its six-week run is complete; even so, the Chinese Canadian National Council has filed an official complaint with the CRTC.