One thing that Korea has in common with Canada is that if you stay up late enough, you can watch nudity on regular cable. But here's the interesting part: while Canada has badly-acted drama movies with nudity, Korea has comedies (also badly-acted). Korean late-night sex comedies are hard to describe, but the most common gag involves a beautiful woman on her back being thoroughly unsatisfied by a goofy-looking man, who in turn is straining himself hilariously. It's good watching.
Alberta high-school students can take a very valuable lesson from Lynden Dorval's suspension by the Edmonton school board. After refusing to heed repeated warnings and deadlines to complete a certain task - giving the consequence-free mark of "not complete" to assignments not handed in, instead of zeros - he received meaningful disciplinary action. Setting aside whether this suspension and the policy behind it are just or practical, this is the real world and employees get in trouble when they don't follow the rules. He is being punished for holding his students to the same standard of behavior that he is being held to by his superiors, under the umbrella justification of doing what's best for the students. The lesson here, as students who passed their English classes by actually handing things in already know, has to do with irony. Of course being a students is not the same as being an employee, and nor are high schools me...
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