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A friend who was born and raised in the U.K., but has lived most of his adult life in Canada, asks if there is not a law requiring that a Canadian prime minister be bilingual.

The answer is no, there is not.

There are no legislated or constitutional pre-requirements for Canadian prime ministers, as there are for U.S. presidents.

It's been one day since human sinkhole Kevin O'Leary joined the Conservative leadership race as candidate no. 14 and already the Canadian media is working to make it seem like this isn't a giant national embarrassment.

Konrad Yakabuski calls O'Leary a "change maker" and various media are reporting that his entry "energizes" a so-far tepid leadership race. Vice's Justin Ling hilariously tweeted yesterday "I, for what it's worth, think O'Leary is a generally smart guy who says smart things." God help us.

If you owned a local newspaper that was facing imminent destruction by a bunch of fascist zombies, would the looming attack influence your coverage?

I'd hope so.

If it were me, I would ensure that the newspaper had a steady stream of news about why the zombies needed to be stopped.

I would assume that people valued the newspaper and I wouldn't give space to fascist zombie apologists, or the fascist zombies themselves. I certainly wouldnt ask one of the zombies' most fascist philosophers to dress up like an average human and write an opinion piece.

OK, maybe this example is too obvious. What if the newspaper was going to be axed by the publisher, who also happened to be the town council?