Angel >> Montreal software millionaire and nouveau-philanthropist Daniel Langlois He sold Softimage and pocketed a truckload of Microsoft money. Then he built the Ex-Centris Complex, a swank new location for independent film on the Main. And last week the Daniel Langlois Foundation announced its first-ever grant recipients. Among 11 other projects, Langlois' foundation will fund UQAM's media arts research group and create a chair in digital technologies and fine arts at Concordia. Thanks, Daniel, for spreading some of Bill Gates' money around.

Insect >> The Kansas City-based Twinkie-imperialists known as Interstate Bakeries Corporation Free trade hath never wrought worse havoc than this. Interstate Bakeries, makers of such products as Wonder Bread and Twinkies, have come north. They've purchased Culinar Inc., the kétaine Québécois food conglomerate, makers of May West, Jos. Louis and other checkout-counter delights. Maybe it was the recent introduction of the Double Jos. Louis, a triple-decker cake that looks like a chocolate-covered Big Mac, that made Interstate decide it just had to buy Culinar. Next thing you know, Aunt Jemima will buy up every last maple tree in Quebec. To Americans, we are no longer hewers of wood and drawers of water; we're bakers of cakes and siphoners of syrup.