Angel >> Former Halifax Daily News columnist Stephen Kimber After editors spiked a column Kimber penned criticial of the paper’s new corporate masters, CanWest Global’s now-famously dissent-squashing Aspers, he resigned, leaving a post he had held since 1985. The article in question fretted over the Aspers’ management style, the imposition of their political views on their fleet of papers and TV stations and media ownership concentration. The writer and academic has been critical of corporate ownership in the past, including Conrad Black’s tenure as Southam supremo, but even then, Kimber wrote, “the range of verboten remained fairly narrow and mostly manageable.” It seems wider now.

Insect >> Busting street hockey One of the most cherished Canadian traditions—street hockey—has come under fire again, this time by an irate woman in Hamilton, Ont., perturbed at the apparent infringement on her property rights by her neighbours. So much so that she’s dragging the offenders to court. Anal-retentive suburbanites may gnash their teeth at the sight of the unfettered and unauthorized sport near their driveways, but street hockey’s clearly a nicer and healthier alternative to hours of mind-numbing video games and junk food.