Dear Diarist, Issue #2
MayAllYourJamsForeverBeEconoVilleProbably the worst of time amongst all the best of times was the one time the Motel Slant-Six appeared in the Acton St. driveway in the middle of weirdly sweltery…
July 2011
Toulouse Le Grandfig’s Summer Vacation: Departure
December 37, 1932 My voyage begins on the Ukranian Steam Ship, the Plotnik. On the first day, I met our captain. A diminutive, if stern fellow, by the name of…
Counting your chickens before they hatch
Prime Minister Harper is obviously feeling very good about himself right now. He (and Canada) hosted an immensely successful Kate and Will tour (which thankfully came a couple of months…
Oakland A’s suspend minor league prospect for gay slur
Photo from Checkoutmycards.comThe Oakland A's nipped team homophobia in the bud Sunday by indefinitely suspending top minor league pitching prospect, Ian Krol, for tweeting what was reported by the San…
Sudan Severs : who cares?
Is there a general media bias to dumb us down? First the state broadcaster participates in the royal race to the bottom: 24 hour coverage of rich white foreigners waving,…
Rupert Murdoch Will Not Go Out in a Blaze of Glory
Rupert Murdoch, the man who has done so much to poison politics, is now trying to defend his "honour", after a scandal with one of his tabloids.News of the World…
Timely question on Harper’s intentions on foreign ownership of Canadian media
Geoff Stevens wonders: "Will Harper open door to foreign-owned media?" Specifically, he wonders whether Rupert Murdoch's empire might make its entree into Canada. The quiet meeting between Harper and Murdoch…
LPC Recovery Tactics: free membership
This isn't the first time the suggestion of opening the voting to "regular folk" outside the 2% of the canadian population who own an active membership to the Party is…
You might know it as bribery, Ma’am
The eagle eyed nottawa picked up on something in a column by Michael Johansen at the Telegram. It’s a reference to a cash payment due to the Innu of Labrador…
Pride before the fall
At a Stampede event in Calgary, Stephen Harper declared the “long Liberal era” to be over. Also, Conservatives need to reach out to Quebec, because their honeymoon with Quebec will…
Orange Wave to Orange Crush: looking ahead to an era of stable, effective New Democrat government
Acting Liberal Leader Bob Rae contemplates the future of his party … and his bellbottoms. (Actual federal Liberal leaders may not appear exactly as illustrated.) Below: Stephen Harper, all hat……
has danielle smith’s wildrose peaked to early?
With the departure of Premier Ed Stelmach soon upon us, and the Tories choosing a new leader this fall, has the wave that carried the Wildrose high in the polls…
CTV’s Quebec City bureau chief Kai Nagata tells why he quit his job
Kai Nagata was CTV’s bureau chief in Quebec City at 24 years of age. That was until he left the world of centrist journalism earlier this week and revealed his…
Shades of Green: Anthropogenesis – A Redefining of Ourselves
Our human history has been a long process of taking greater control of the circumstances that affect us. Our early shelters and fires eased the inclemency of weather to make…
So arrogant!
It's appalling that no Canadian who isn't a card-carrying Conservative loyalist can get anywhere near this guy and give him the "boo" he deserves.
“Plus ça change, plus c’est la meme chose”; or, how to ideologically re-structure your student society: a beginner’s guide: the SFSS CUPE Lockout
By Joel Blok, originally published here. This summer five years ago, the Board of Directors of the SFSS suspended its office staff, barring them from entering their offices and sending…
Time for a food revolution
A spike in food prices in 2008 pushed the number of hungry people in the world past the one billion mark. It was not a temporary phenomenon. Those record prices…
Fare Questions
We might have hoped that by the 21st century hunger would be a scourge of the past. But the problem is actually worse now than it was a decade ago.…
The End of the World and Journalism in the Era of Open
For those not in the United Kingdom a massive scandal has erupted around allegations that one of the country's tabloids - the News of the World ( a subsidiary of…