Diamond Jubilee medal

London, Ont. councillors honour themselves

City councillors voted to give themselves Queen’s Diamond Jubilee medals, leaving other worthy nominees empty handed

The Bieber-Harper summit

While the premiers meet in Halifax, Stephen Harper meets with Justin Bieber to present the pop star with a Diamond Jubilee Medal. (Presumably it wasn’t a choice between one or the other, but it’s impolite to turn down easy jokes.)

Turn the other cheek, unless you’re in an abortion clinic

Mary Wagner’s civil disobedience would make Thoreau puke

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‘Like Martin Luther King and other human rights reformers’

Conservative MP Maurice Vellacott awarded two Diamond Jubilee medals to anti-abortion activists, one of whom is currently in prison.