The taking of offence is the current big news theme. The prime minister and Jean Charest have dogpiled on a Jan Wong piece in Saturday's Globe & Mail. Most of the piece is straight reportage, but in the middle she briefly entertains the notion that Quebec's language laws may cause alienation in some. Apology is being demanded; the Globe has defended itself in an editorial – a translated version is available –; there are columns and editorials about Wong's shocking, insulting suggestion, and here's one long discussion thread on a local community for comparison.

Meantime, the dicta of recent ex-CBC chairman Guy Fournier have outraged the local Lebanese community and he is being asked to apologize publicly. And these stories are taking place against the Pope managing handily to make both Muslims and Jews angry on the eve of their religious seasons, but (depending on whom you read) is either sorry or not sorry. Interestingly, there's a view that the real target of the Pope's argument is reason and science, because he wants theology to come first and God to be given a place in scientific debate; there's no news story about scientists being outraged and wanting an apology, however.
posted at 11:06