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The site, which relies on existing users to rate the looks of other members, said that too many people indulged in holiday meals and it was forced to take action.

“As a business, we mourn the loss of any member, but the fact remains that our members demand the high standard of beauty be upheld,” BeautifulPeople.com founder Robert Hintze said in the release. “Letting fatties roam the site is a direct threat to our business model and the very concept for which BeautifulPeople.com was founded.”

Canada was third on the list of countries with the most expelled members, behind the United States and the United Kingdom.

“Canada has been one of the worst offenders,” Greg Hodge, managing director of BeautifulPeople.com, told the National Post. “It’s the eating, the drinking, the sitting on the couch watching TV — that entire culture. Canada also has the added excuse of it being extremely cold, so people are wearing baggy clothes and don’t mind letting themselves go a bit over the winter months.”

The stunt appears to be one intended to draw attention to the site, and it’s working. Entry to BeautifulPeople.com is only possible after passing a democratic rating process, where members of the opposite sex vote ‘Yes definitely’, ‘Hmm yes, O.K’, ‘Hmm no, not really’ and ‘NO Definitely NOT’ based on photographs and a brief profile submitted by new applicants.

Los Angeles-based Canadian writer Linda Massarella posted a list of the 10 most influential Canadians in the United States in 2009, and Canadian of the Week fully endorses it.

Massarella kept her list to what she called “those who are most boldly Canadian, who exude Canadian-ness in their speech and actions, who when interviewed say, ‘I’m from Canada,’ and give as much time to their homeland as to their adopted town.”

Coming in first was Luc Robitaille, the former left winger-turned team president of the Los Angeles Kings. As an L.A. native now living on the east cosat, and former Kings’ season ticket holder, I love this choice. I just worry that it’s a little too insider-y, but big points for sticking to the national sport and honoring a man who has made hockey successful in L.A. for nearly three decades.

Also making the list were recent Canadian of the Week picks James Cameron and William Shatner.

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This is how Billboard reminds us of things we’d rather forget.

Vancouver-based band Nickelback was named Billboard’s Top Band of the Decade after having sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, according to a report in The National Post.

The band, which formed in Hanna, Alberta, pretty much ruled pop rock in the ’00s, with its albums “The State,” “Silver Side Up,” “The Long Road,” “All the Right Reasons” and “Dark Horse.” They’re nominated for a best hard rock performance Grammy for the song, “Burn It to the Ground.”

Despite the band’s sales success, it has been the target of critics for virtually the entire decade. Singer Chad Kroeger told Billboard in 2007, “We’ve just accepted that we’re never going to be the critics’ darlings, and we’re OK with that.”

It’s one thing to not be “the critics’ darlings,” it’s another to be named the worst band in the world. That’s the title readers of Word Magazine in the U.K. recently decided to bestow upon Nickelback, with the band taking 20 percent of the vote.

This is how Billboard reminds us of things we’d rather forget.

Vancouver-based band Nickelback was named Billboard’s Top Band of the Decade after having sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, according to a report in The National Post.

The band, which formed in Hanna, Alberta, pretty much ruled pop rock in the ’00s, with its albums “The State,” “Silver Side Up,” “The Long Road,” “All the Right Reasons” and “Dark Horse.” They’re nominated for a best hard rock performance Grammy for the song, “Burn It to the Ground.”

Despite the band’s sales success, it has been the target of critics for virtually the entire decade. Singer Chad Kroeger told Billboard in 2007, “We’ve just accepted that we’re never going to be the critics’ darlings, and we’re OK with that.”

It’s one thing to not be “the critics’ darlings,” it’s another to be named the worst band in the world. That’s the title readers of Word Magazine in the U.K. recently decided to bestow upon Nickelback, with the band taking 20 percent of the vote.

This is how Billboard reminds us of things we’d rather forget.

Vancouver-based band Nickelback was named Billboard’s Top Band of the Decade after having sold more than 30 million albums worldwide, according to a report in The National Post.

The band, which formed in Hanna, Alberta, pretty much ruled pop rock in the ’00s, with its albums “The State,” “Silver Side Up,” “The Long Road,” “All the Right Reasons” and “Dark Horse.” They’re nominated for a best hard rock performance Grammy for the song, “Burn It to the Ground.”

Despite the band’s sales success, it has been the target of critics for virtually the entire decade. Singer Chad Kroeger told Billboard in 2007, “We’ve just accepted that we’re never going to be the critics’ darlings, and we’re OK with that.”

It’s one thing to not be “the critics’ darlings,” it’s another to be named the worst band in the world. That’s the title readers of Word Magazine in the U.K. recently decided to bestow upon Nickelback, with the band taking 20 percent of the vote.

Forget Canadian of the Week, Michael J. Fox is a veritable Canadian of the Millennium — both of them!

Get your “Wedding Crashers” jokes ready, it looks like 38-year-old Vince Vaughn is going to marry his 29-year-old girlfriend Kyla Weber, of Alberta.

From the Calgary Herald: In Touch Magazine spoke with a friend of Vaughn’s in December who said that the 38-year-old actor is looking to settle down.

“Vince is ready to get married and has been for a while,” says the buddy. “He wants to start a family.”

Toronto native Catherine O’Hara turns 55 today!

Toronto native Catherine O’Hara turns 55 today!