Friday 20 December 2002

In the ranks of places you're likely to find wacky news stories i'm sure Quebec would rank somewhere below Tanzania and Andorra, but those crazy (French) Canadians have really been putting in a huge effort this week... (thanks, as always, to Portal of Evil News)

A teen magazine in Quebec has raised eyebrows with its latest issue, which includes an explicit guide for keeping a boyfriend.

The magazine has a sex guide with what it calls "99 Naughty Tricks," including instructions on French kissing and oral sex.

Then we move on to...

A Quebec City radio host is among 11 prominent men facing charges of soliciting a minor, after police broke up a juvenile prostitution ring.

Police say the ring, which used girls ranging in age from 14 to 17, was operated by a street gang called the Wolf Pack.

Gang members would meet young girls at parties. Over several months, they would shower the girls with gifts, money and jewelry and slowly introduce them to a life of prostitution.

And finally....

A Quebec-based cult that believes space aliens created Earthlings in a lab 25,000 years ago says it has produced the world's first human clone to be born within two weeks, possibly on Christmas Day.

The Raelians, a free-love fringe sect that runs the theme park UFOland in Quebec's Eastern Townships, have offered no way to verify the claim or validate that this highly controversial experiment is under way.

But an official with Clonaid, the cloning company the Raelians founded in 1997, told CTV News that the clone is a girl and a genetic replica of a U.S. woman in her 30s who is unable to have children with her husband naturally.

And this was all in the news on the same day, leading me to the conclusion that it's never dull to be a Quebecer.

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