While the protests outside Bush’s first official speech appearance might not stack up to the eruption in Montreal in 1992 — when Axl abruptly called off the band’s performance at Olympic Stadium — they were enough to result in four arrests in Calgary, according to the CBC.

Protesters threw shoes and dressed up as Guantanamo inmates outside the Telus Convention Centre (sic) where Bush was inside, giving a speech for a friendly crowd of about 1,500 people who paid $400 a pop to get in.

The National Post reports the man, Coquitlam, B.C., resident Desiderio Fortunato, refused to turn his car off when the agent asked him to because the agent didn’t ask nicely.

“I refused to turn off the car until he said please. He didn’t. And he has the gun, I guess, so he sprayed me,” Fortunato told the paper. “Is that illegal in the United States, asking an officer to be polite?”

The best part of this story is the comments from Canadian readers, who railed against Fortunato.

“Your arrogance makes it difficult for the other Canadians to cross without difficulty,” wrote one commenter, dodgerguy. “I hope they ban you from the U.S. for five years. Guys like you give us other Canadians a bad reputation.”

It’s all about perspective, I guess. What do you all think? Did he deserve it? Should the officer have said “please”?

One of our faves from Christopher Guest’s mockumentaries, including “Waiting for Guffman,” “Best in Show” and “A Mighty Wind,” O’Hara got her start at Second City in Toronto in 1974 before becoming a series regular on “SCTV.”

A tremendous character actress, she’s also brought her touch to memorable roles in “Beetlejuice,” “Home Alone” and  ”The Nightmare Before Christmas.”

She was inducted into Canada’s Walk of Fame last year.

Few people knew Evangeline Lilly — at least, if they didn’t stay up watching party-line commercials late at night (check out the video below) — before she landed her role on “Lost” five years ago. During five seasons, she’s amazed us as Kate Austen on “Lost,” a federal fugitive who’s as impressive with her ass-kicking abilities as she is rolling around on the beach with the likes of Jack and Sawyer.

She’s done her job well for five seasons and gets the “Canadian of the Week” honor for, well, continuing to do her job.

It was reported this week by Zap2It.com that Lilly was leaving “Lost” early and auditioning for roles in TV pilots that would air this fall, for the 2009-10 season. “Lost” is in the middle of its fifth season and already has a deal set with ABC to end after the sixth, so there were concerns that the mystery of the island might be solved with Lilly around.

The report was quickly and roundly denied by ABC and Lilly’s rep, who told E! Online it “absolutely false.”

So, here’s to Evangeline Lilly, eh!  The show would definitely be lost without her.

Canadian Troy Ross won this season of the boxing reality show, “The Contender,” with a fourth-round technical knockout of Nigerian Enhinomen (Hino) Ehikamenor on Wednesday night. If you’re asking, “Is that show still on?” The answer is, obviously, yes. But it’s not easy to find. In its fourth season, “The Contender” has been bobbing and weaving all over the channel lineup after getting its start on NBC and airing Seasons 2 and 3 on ESPN. The fourth season was shown on Versus, somewhere between hockey and rodeo.

While the inclusion of Alanis Morissette is sure to cause some tense debate and, perhaps, threaten international relations, it’s only right to pass along the link.

Check it out here, then come back and let us know what you think.

Some of these Maple Leaf ladies threaten to melt the glaciated peaks of the Arctic Cordillera, while others, well, you decide if you’d send them back through customs.

Who should be added to the list? Who should be removed?

(Photo credit: Frazier Harrison/Getty Images, via Comcast.net)

Picture this: America, November 2004. Half the country, riled up over election results, threatens to move to Canada.

At the same time, Canadians were casting their votes. For what? To decide who is “The Greatest Canadian.” Were they just showing off? Trying to show us how awesome they were as we realized how lame we are?

Perhaps, but Canadians don’t need to prove to us how awesome they are. They know it and so do we.

Without Canadians, we wouldn’t have “Saturday Night Live,” Jack Bauer or more than one hockey franchise west of the Rockies.

While the jury’s still out on “loonies” and “toonies,” our relationship with Canada, on a popular cultural scale, is pretty much the opposite of the currency exchange. Every Canadian unit of cache is worth just a little more than ours.

But as I examined the results of the CBC’s landmark vote to decide upon “The Greatest Canadian,” I realized they’re really on to something up there.

Even beyond Bryan Adams, Seth Rogen and George Stroumboulopoulos, there have been some really tremendous Canadians. See the full list here.

The winner of the coveted title was Tommy Douglas, Canada’s “father of Medicare.” (Doesn’t that say something about Canadians, too? My guess would have been Wayne Gretzky, and he came in 10th!).

Take Terry Fox. Here, he was a one-off feature on a short-lived NBC show called “Real People,” but in Canada he was a national hero and second on the CBC’s list of Greatest Canadians. After a cancer scare that resulted in having his leg amputated, he ran across half of Canada to raise money for cancer research on a prosthetic leg.

He started his “Marathon of Hope” in April 1980 and made it just past halfway across the country (5,376 kilometers — which is, like, 9,000 miles!) in four and a half months.

His health took a bad turn and Fox died from cancer complications and he had to abandon his effort to run across the country, but he inspired a nation and reached his goal of raising $1 for every Canadian resident — reaching $24.17 million when the country’s population was at 24.1 million in February 1981. He died June 28, 1981, but his legacy lives on with races that are held in his honor every year in 60 countries.

Here’s the CBC’s complete Top 10, with links to their profiles on every one of them.

1. Tommy Douglas

2. Terry Fox

3. Pierre Elliott Trudeau

4. Sir Frederick Banting

5. David Suzuki

6. Lester B. Pearson

7. Don Cherry

8. Sir John A. Macdonald

9. Alexander Graham Bell

10. Wayne Gretzky

We can’t have a Tommy Douglas or Terry Fox every week, but we’ll be looking to take note of a worthy Canadian each week and have a little fun in the process.

(Photo credit: CBC)