A woman in Canada who was pregnant with quintuplets shocked both hospital staff and her boyfriend when it turns out she wasn't pregnant at all. With any-lets. I've heard of faked cancer, faked weddings, faked girlfriends who live in Canada who were met "at summer camp," but this. This is powered up fakery.

A fortysomething woman in Montreal was killed this morning after her scarf got caught in the escalator at a train station. Holy fucking shit. An escalator strangled someone to death. I need to lie down.

A woman in Québec was recently arrested after posting a photo to Instagram, because Jesus fucking Christ, says the police, do we really need another filtered photograph of a girl with pastel-colored nail polish holding a cup cake? Put her in jail and throw away the key!

[Montreal, May 12. Image via Getty]

Gunman George Sodini may have entered a Pittsburgh gym alone on Tuesday night. But he was part of a string of mass murderers of women — and a loose-knit group of misogynists who encourage manipulation and hatred.

On June 30, three teen girls and a 50-year-old woman were found dead in a submerged car outside of Kingston, Ontario. Now the girls' parents and brother have been arrested, and many are asking whether this was an "honor killing."

A Montreal woman is being ordered into therapy after making 10,000 crank 911 calls, and a NY crank caller has been arrested for getting a woman to perform a rectal exam on herself. [NYT, Gothamist]

Oh, Moe, what have you done to us? While you were (are?) sleeping the UN decided to halt aid to Burma because the junta just keeps taking it at gunpoint to sell it; Beirut has been at least partially taken over by Hezbollah; there's just too much smack to talk about Mark Penn to even begin to contemplate adding links…