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THOSE TOLERANT CANADIANS: Canada: ‘Human Rights’ Tribunal orders woman’s house seized after she said Muslim employee’s lunch smelled bad.

It didn’t hold up in court — quite. Superior Court rules Ontario Human Rights Tribunal hearing was unfair.

A Mississauga businesswoman whose home was ordered seized to pay an Ontario Human Rights Tribunal award to a former employee can keep her house — for now.

The Superior Court struck down the “fatally flawed” decision as so unfair to defendant Maxcine Telfer — who represented herself in the hearing — that it was “simply not possible to logically follow the pathway taken by the adjudicator.”

That October 2009 decision ordered Telfer to pay $36,000 to a woman who had been her employee for six weeks. Lawyers wanted the sheriff to seize and sell Telfer’s home to collect the money.

Canada is overdue for a hardcore free speech movement.

FASTER, PLEASE: Spray-on Skin Is a Reality. “The skin gun is not science fiction—it’s a prototype medical device that literally sprays skin cells onto burn victims to re-grow skin. Old methods like skin grafts took weeks to heal; the skin gun needs about an hour. We’ve heard about the spray-on skin gun back in 2008 but we didn’t think it’d become this real, this useful, this fast. Though it is still technically in an experimental stage, the skin gun has already successfully treated over a dozen burn victims.” Note: Don’t follow the link if images of burn victims bother you. (Thanks to reader Douglas Oosting for the link.)

BRR! Map shows most of Northern Hemisphere is covered in snow and ice.

UPDATE: Party like it’s 1046? I hope not.

ANOTHER UPDATE: Reader Charlie Katek emails: “Please advise readers that the average home price in Phoenix recently dipped below $100,000.00. You can’t shovel sunshine.”

THE DEATH THREATS that don’t make the nightly news. “Funny thing is, I’ve been getting e-mails like this on a regular basis since, oh, about 1992.”

JOE PAPPALARDO LOOKS AT America and Egypt’s Military Relationship.

ANDREW IAN DODGE on the Tea Party’s appeal to younger adults.

2012 BATTLESPACE PREPARATION: Every Senate Democrat Votes To Keep ObamaCare. Well, they had their chance.

DISASTER PREP: READER OWEN ROBERTS WRITES:

As I sit here in Austin, Texas, experiencing the joy of rolling electrical blackouts while the temperature is in the teens, I’m wondering if you or your readers have recommended any emergency heaters in the past. Is kerosene better than propane? What really works?

Aside from my gas fireplaces, which start without power, I have one of these indoor-safe propane heaters, though I’ve never had to use it. I recommend that anyone who has any sort of combustion-based indoor heat have a battery-powered carbon monoxide detector, too. Any other suggestions? I note that it’s better to think of these things before a blizzard strikes, but . . .

Earlier posts here and here. And here’s a blackout survival guide from Popular Mechanics, along with some guidelines on home generator safety. Be careful with generators — the carbon monoxide threat is greater than is generally appreciated.

UPDATE: From M.D. Creekmore, advice on surviving blackouts.

DON’T FORGET THE LEGISLATURES: “One often-overlooked aspect of the Republican sweep of 2010 was the progress made in state legislatures. The GOP captured something like 26 state legislative bodies last November in a grass roots rebellion that is still reverberating. Minnesota was an important part of that trend, as Republicans took both the House and the Senate away from Democratic majorities–the latter for the first time since partisan elections began in the 1970s.”

And even in places where Republicans didn’t come close to taking over — like Hawaii — there’s a new assertiveness on fiscal matters. “New laws cost taxpayers’ money, and Hawaii Republican legislators want a clearer accounting of how much. A measure introduced by the Republican minority would put a price tag on every bill with a financial impact, which they said would increase government transparency and accountability. Hawaii is the only state that doesn’t require some form of fiscal notes attached to bills, according to the Grassroot Institute of Hawaii, which promotes free markets and small government.”

NRA, ACLU, TEA PARTY: To DHS, we’re all terrorists now.

FORMER TREASURY SECRETARY ROBERT RUBIN is scared.

BUSTING THE SOROS-FUNDED RABBIS FOR double-talk on the Holocaust. “The rabbis, using their titles and positions in their communities (only rabbis were allowed to signed the anti-Beck letter), were not candid about the agenda of the organization that ran the ad and have not been on a diligent search for improper anti-Semitic or Holocaust rhetoric. (Otherwise, the group’s now hard-to-find blog would contain some evidence that the group cares about more than furthering the left’s political agenda.) Rather, the rabbis have been on the lookout for opportunities to skewer their political opponents. Not exactly profiles in courage — or in ethics, are they?”

AN INTERESTING DISCUSSION OF KITCHEN PROGRESS. I second the dishwasher point. And I also second the value of Internet recipe-browsing. I find it useful occasionally, and the Insta-Daughter often finds a recipe online and then decides to cook it. Her serene assurance that she can figure out almost any household task, from making a souffle to unclogging a toilet, by visiting YouTube or WikiHow is a real departure from past generations.

THE TEA PARTY MOVEMENT: Alive And Well In Massachusetts.

INTRODUCING Academic Death Panels. This sounds like more of that “eliminationist rhetoric” to me.

BEWARE THE SNOW SHOVELS OF DEATH:

“Would it kill you to shovel the front walk?” A monster snowstorm raging from New Mexico to Maine raises this question afresh. Typically it’s posed by a woman standing with hands on hips and assuming a Thurberesque mien as she gazes down on a man exercising his thumb on the remote but otherwise in repose. The correct answer: “It might.”

Snow-shovel design may not rank up there with the Three Gorges Dam as an engineering challenge, but it kills more than 10 times as many people each year. My Slate colleague Juliet Lapidos has observed that the 1,200 annual heart-failure deaths attributed to blizzards represent only about 0.3 percent of all annual deaths from heart disease. But that’s a lot more people than die from watching a football game.

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MICHAEL WALSH: Obama’s House Of Cards: Health Law Starts To Tumble Down. Let’s hope!

MICHAEL TOTTEN: The Iranian Revolution Echoes in Egypt. Key bit: “What Mubarak and the Shah both failed to understand is that if you make concessions when you’re weak it just increases the appetite for more concessions. If they would have made concessions when they were in a position of power, they could have negotiated a smooth transition to a less authoritarian government.”

COMPARE AND CONTRAST: Obama and Egypt vs. Reagan and The Philippines.

JESSICA WAKEMAN learns to appreciate chivalry. “Just like I have a hard time reconciling my feminist beliefs with my desire to be with a more dominant, alpha male, I also have a hard time reconciling my feminist beliefs with my enjoyment of chivalry. I am now figuring out that the two are not mutually exclusive.”

SOME VALENTINE’S DAY gift suggestions and markdowns.

REASON TV: Hot Air’s Ed Morrissey on Not-So-Radical Republicans and Life Outside the Beltway.

KEITH HENNESSEY: How To Repeal ObamaCare.

CULTURE OF CORRUPTION: FORMER TED KENNEDY STAFFER CAUGHT STEALING FROM THE SENATE. “Write your own jokes.”