More swines in Ottawa

The city now has two, count'em TWO, confirmed cases of the H1N1/swine/Mexican flu (that's what I'm going to call it now I think). Neither required hospitalization. Maybe we should start reporting every case of the regular flu or food poisoning too...Europe's parliament has voted to ban the import of seal-products coming from the annual seal hunt. Why is everyone so outraged about this? We hunt lots of different animals, but seals are cute so that pisses us off apparently. Clubbing them is also not barbaric, apparently it's the most humane way of doing it. It's a huge revenue generator and there are shitloads of seals out there. Perhaps we should start clubbing European politicians instead...