Pam and PETA are at it again.

The Montreal Film and TV Commission is in the news today for denying a permit to the anti-meat organization and Pam Anderson, who was set to unveil her new PETA poster in the city today. PETA sought a permit to hold the unveiling of the poster, in which her body is marked up with labels for each body part as if it’s waiting for a butcher’s cleaver, in Old Montreal, according to the National Post.

“I have to inform you that we, as public officials representing a municipal government, cannot endorse this image of Ms. Anderson,” the commission’s Josee Rochefort wrote in an email to PETA. “It is not so much controversial as it goes against all principles public organizations are fighting for in the everlasting battle of equality between men and women.”

Anderson called the city’s behaviour puritanical. “In a city that is known for its exotic dancing and for being progressive and edgy, how sad that a woman would be banned from using her own body in a political protest over the suffering of cows and chickens,” she said.

She finally did it.

After what host Tom Bergeron said was an effort that began with the show’s first season, Pamela Anderson took to the “Dancing with the Stars” hardwood in the show’s 10th season.

No one quite knew what to expect, and former winner/Olympic speedskating gold medalist Apolo Anton Ohno said Pam was “a little top-heavy” to be a serious contender.

After falling into the bottom two in the first round of voting, Pam did herself and her country proud by blending some classiness with her inevitable sexiness and landing squarely in the middle of the final results in sixth place. For her weeks of entertainment, witty one-liners (when asked by Brooke Burke if America was going to see a different side of her on the show, Pam quipped, “I think America has already seen every side of me.”), Pam lands in the eighth spot on our countdown of the Top 10 Canadians of the 2009-10 TV season.

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Previous choices:
10. Cobie Smulders (“How I Met Your Mother”)
9. Graham Yost (“Justified” and “The Pacific”)

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Week after week, Pam’s confidence grew and eventually the competition just caught up to her as she exited behind Chad Ochocinco, Niecy Nash, Erin Andrews, Evan Lysacek and winner Nicole Scherzinger. She proved she belonged, as you can see from this clip below.

Canadian model/actress/centerfold/fictional lifeguard Pamela Anderson’s run on “Dancing with the Stars” ended Tuesday.

To add elimination to injury, Pam was sent home after suffering some kind of leg injury that prohibited her from taking part in the encore performance of her team’s cha cha, which the judges wanted to see again.

Pam said she would have been able to continue in the competition despite the injury, but she won’t get the chance after finally being cut after a few close calls — including the first week, when she found herself in the bottom two.

Blame it on a misunderstanding of U.S. tax code?

Canadian bombshell and current “Dancing with the Stars” contestant Pamela Anderson showed up on a list of Californians who owe the state more than $100,000 in back taxes, according to AP report.

Pam owes a whopping $493,000, the state says.

Her attorney declined to comment.

She headlined the 10th season premiere of “Dancing with the Stars,” and there’s no telling how long she’ll last, so we figured it best to go ahead and quickly bestow Canadian of the Week honors on bombshell Pamela Anderson.

Claiming she had no rhythm and was tone deaf, Pam brought some of her signature moves to the celebrity dancing competition, dancing her cha cha cha in a skimpy outfit and tossing her hair about.

After her performance — in which she, ahem, deflowered a brand new “Dancing” pro named Damian Whitewood — judge Bruno Tonioli said, “All I could think about was sex, sex and more sex.”

If this was still selling itself as a family show, the jig is up.

Pam is the perfect train wreck for this show, and she was working it Monday night. Her partner was practically holding her up after her performance as she said she was exhausted.

She’s definitely bringing some fun to the season, which is filled with some controversial and eye-popping stars, including Kate Gosselin, Erin Andrews and Nicole Scherzinger.

Apolo Anton Ohno, who broke the U.S. Olympic record for Winter Olympic medals in Vancouver last month and won a little TV dance competition called “Dancing With the Stars” in 2007 apparently doesn’t think much of Canadian Pam Anderson’s chances on the upcoming season of the show.

Talking to Jay Leno on “The Tonight Show,” Ohno was asked to handicap the season.

“Between, what is it, Pam Anderson and Evan Lysacek?” Ohno told Leno, according to People.com. “Pam Anderson, she’s a little top-heavy. I think Evan is going to do very well. Plus, he’s an Olympic medalist!”

RadarOnline.com is reporting that Pam Anderson has sealed a deal to compete on the next season of “Dancing with the Stars.”

“She really wanted to do the show and the show thought it was a great idea,” a source told RadarOnline.com exclusively.

It wouldn’t be the first time a contestant with Playboy connections has taken to the dance floor, and they’ve had drastically different levels of success.

April 1997 Playmate of the Month turned soap opera star Kelly Monaco won the first season of the show. Meanwhile Shanna Moakler, who was Playmate of the Month in December 2001, was eliminated second (only after Tucker Carlson) in the third season.

Hugh Hefner’s ex Holly Madison was eliminated third in Season 8, after jumping in at the last minute for an injured contestant just days before the competition began.

How do you think Pam Anderson will fare on the show?

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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Our friends over at Comcast.net have assembled, for your viewing pleasure, a collection of “Canadian Cuties.”

Our friends over at Comcast.net have assembled, for your viewing pleasure, a collection of “Canadian Cuties.”