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9:29 AM
A Montreal institution moves west

Longtime radio host and Montreal institution Terry DiMonte is moving to Calgary.

Terry DiMonte has been on Montreal's airwaves for 23 years. Usually accompanied by longtime friend and sidekick Ted Bird, he's hopped around, but is best known for his long-standing morning show on CHOM. Terry and Ted helped launch the station which started back when the music they currently play was current... and they returned nearly two decades later when CHOM was flailing, and brought it back to life.

Always classy, generous and involved in the community, and a veritable Montreal institution, Terry DiMonte will be missed. But in a way, his move west is as much a part of Montreal as DiMonte faves Cosmos and Ziggy's; in this city, losing our best and brighest to the lure of oil money is all too common.

Bye, Terry. Phone in once in a while.

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8:23 PM
Breaking news: Flying pigs spotted

The U.N. took a break from its usual Israel-bashing agenda today to call out some actual human rights violators:

A United Nations panel rebuked Myanmar, Iran and North Korea on Tuesday for human rights abuses, overcoming objections by developing nations that the move amounted to "demonization" of some states.

The resolution on North Korea expressing concern about systematic and widespread rights violations won the strongest support in the U.N. General Assembly's human rights committee, passing by 97-23, with 60 abstentions.

Another resolution strongly condemning the use of violence against peaceful demonstrators in Myanmar, formerly known as Burma, was passed by 88-24, with 66 abstentions, in what Britain said was "a declaration of support for the Burmese people's desire for change."

A third vote expressing deep concern at rights violations in Iran was passed by 72-50, with 55 abstentions.

The non-binding resolutions will be sent to the 192-member General Assembly, which generally votes in the same way as the committee.

The representative from Uganda was among several members of the Non-Aligned Movement, which groups 115 mostly developing nations, who argued against singling out some states.

He said such issues were best left to the U.N.'s Human Rights Council and should be addressed through dialogue rather than what he called the "demonization" of some countries.

Demonization, eh? You mean, what is usually done to Israel in a typical U.N.'s day's work?

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