Saying goodbye
The art-making party for Elmaks was wonderful and fitting, and the service the next day was lovely. I don’t usually say funerals are lovely, but this one was. His art…
October 2011
the critic
the critic, a photo by Mattijn on Flickr.
Fight Your Demons
Fight Your Demons, a photo by Lissy Elle on Flickr.
Take Time To Renew Your Spirit
We can create a world as yet unimagined, a world undreamed, yet dimly felt. We are like the corn. Mysteriously hidden within each of us are the seeds that can…
Why does the BBC dump so much money in a big glittery bin by making glossy trailers? It turns me silver with rage
Columnist says people should be employed to make programmes, not adverts for them.
To Hell With Co-operation
There is much crowing in the Liberal press about how Harper has shown them the way to run a minority government. The fact that the same Liberal press was appalled…
To Hell With Co-operation
There is much crowing in the Liberal press about how Harper has shown them the way to run a minority government. The fact that the same Liberal press was appalled…
To Hell With Co-operation
There is much crowing in the Liberal press about how Harper has shown them the way to run a minority government. The fact that the same Liberal press was appalled…
To Hell With Co-operation
There is much crowing in the Liberal press about how Harper has shown them the way to run a minority government. The fact that the same Liberal press was appalled…
For my economics-savvy friends…
… and I have a few… Tell me something. Greece. Italy. Portugal. Et cetera. All that economic shit-storm stuff that is happening in those corners of the planet… I see…
Tories in hard fight in Sin Jawns seats #nlpoli #nlvotes
The whole race for second place media meme - bullshit that it always was - masked a very serious battle that’s been going on since the election started between the…
Robert Reitmeier. Salt of the Earth
First, a bit of a plug for a future article. One of our writers has been working on a document that will be, hands down, the best thing that this…
Here’s To The State Of The Golden Era….Verse 3
.Here's to the Lies of the Era's Spinners...In the midst of all the plenty....A decade of children going down...B.C.'s child poverty rate has been the highest in the country for…
Alison Redford’s premiership wrong-footed on Day 2 by brutal Calgary Sun story
The Calgary Sun’s front page Saturday morning. Below: Sun columnist Rick Bell; Calgary Mayor Naheed Nenshi; a technician demonstrates the proper procedure for handling a typical Sun story.Has former Alberta…
What is Coke doing with Koch
From the Center for Media and Democracy's PR Watch What is Coca-Cola doing behind closed doors with Koch Industries at the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC)? The Center for Media…
Late night
Bliss at 1:30 mark, yes!Some weekend reading...this Globe opinion piece riffs on this one in the New York Times. They're both getting a lot of grief online but the questions…
Wankers of the Week: Happy Wanksgiving!
Crappy weekend, everyone! And hey howdy, it’s Thanksgiving up here in Canada! Thanks be to Mother Earth for holding up my feet without complaining. I’ve got my yams, my homegrown…
If Don Cherry is Right it Means Banning Hockey
I have always tried to give Don Cherry some credit for his knowledge of the game so I listened when he said fighting was necessary as a relief valve for…
Printers: a purchase you never stop buying
There was a time when having a laser printer was a big deal. At that time, printer companies used to make a big deal over how long the printer could…