Oh, I see. When Russell Brand prank calls someone it's considered basically a federal crime. When some schmo over at Quebec radio station does it to Sarah Palin, pretending to be French President Nicolas Sarkozy, it is all in good fun.

To be fair, Palin takes it like a champ, so it's hard to tell whether she buys it or not. Certainly she isn't as pissy as Mitt Romney when one of his oddly named sons pretended to be the governor of California.

Either way: God Bless America (and the Canadian Provinces).

Either People really has no idea where in Canada Halle Berry actually is, or photo agency INF is substituting "Vancouver" and "Toronto" for her actual location to keep the other paparazzi away from their target. Either way, one of these parties is wise, the other not so much.

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If you thought the United States's Digital Millennium Copyright Act – which is practically legislation written by powerful music lobbyists – was terrible, take a look at what Canadians are about to endure. [BB]

So Canada has new programming because their writers don't care about crazy things like internet residuals. As if universal health care wasn't enough! Always seeing an opening, CBS is importing some of that earnestness from up north:

CBS has agreed to import a new Canadian-produced TV police drama called "Flashpoint" in a deal that lets the network bypass the home-grown "pilot" development process shut down by the screenwriters' strike.
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The network said on Tuesday it has ordered 13 episodes of the one-hour show, which will be broadcast in the United States later this year on CBS and north of the border on CTV, Canada's largest privately owned English-language broadcaster.

We're surprised. We thought Mexico was the go-to for cheap-imported goods.