Tag: headline

  • recursive headline

    This CBC headline baffles and delights me: Review of mailboxes leads to review of mailboxes

    Following a safety review that led to the replacement of many end-of-driveway mailboxes, the P.E.I. Department of Transportation is setting its own guidelines for the safety of the new super mailboxes.

  • the end of poverty in your coffee cup?

    I’m not sure what to make of EWB‘s current campaign, which features a future newspaper headline G8 Leaders Declare End of Extreme Poverty. It links to playyourpart.ca, which seems to say that we can end world poverty just by buying fair-trade goods?

    I know there’s a lot wrong with the coffee industry (Free Trade Coffee: You Grind The Beans, We Grind The Peasants! Enjoy the smooth trickle-down flavour, etc) but it’s a simplistic argument. What can the extremely poor sell to us?

    I don’t know what to think.

  • chilly

    A real BBC News headline: Cold Weather Hits Scots Fixtures
    <insert obligatory kilt-related humour here>