Barbara Hall says: “Stereotyping any one community by assuming that certain people are more likely to commit illegal activity is not only wrong, it’s against the law.”

She’s wrong, surely. Right? “Assuming that certain people are more likely to commit illegal activity” can’t possibly be illegal unless and until one acts upon said assumption—say, by running a pickup off the road because it’s full of Chinese-looking people you assume committed some sort of angling infractions. No, wait—that’s illegal no matter what you thought they did. Hmm. Am I allowed to think a Saudi is more likely to be a terrorist than a Bermudan?

Oh, our wacky HRCs. Perhaps while Hall is clarifying her bizarre comment, she can explain why Maclean’s should face sanction for excerpting a bestselling book even as the Toronto Public Library system lends out 72 copies of the entire friggin’ thing for free.

Now, look. CBC’s interview with Calgary Sun columnist Paul Jackson is, as Calgary Grit says, “probably the funniest interview I have ever heard in my lifetime.” The idea that this would ruin Jacko’s credibility is only notable (and profoundly sad, my god, but try not to think about that) because it confirms that he actually believed he had any credibility before he wrote a column supporting Jonathan Denis and not Craig Chandler simply because someone purporting to be from Ed Stelmach’s office told him to.

“I just figure that Mr. Chandler has basically ruined my career,” he tells CBC.

But that cannot be allowed to happen. Though his efforts in recent months have been strangely dry and focused on, ahem, provincial politics, Jackson is capable of some of the most unintentionally hilarious punditry imaginable. His brilliance, if it may be called that, has gotten me through many rough days.

The Sun can probably survive Licia Corbella’s defection to the Herald–they still have access to CP copy, after all. It would not last long without Jacko, however. Sun editors must realize that this incident only enhances his myth. I implore them to go easy.