Pre-Binged TV
Sure you could try these yourself at nominal cost via services like Netflix or iTunes. But why trust your own judgement when you can trust mine? To be fair, I…
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Veep is Fracking Good
Season 3, Episode 4 of HBO's Veep tackles the issue of fracking, features a blogger, a smartwatch and a really complicated toilet. Very good, and very funny. Disclaimer: people here…
Le Québec devrait etre un pays
Je suis vraiment déçu de la défaite du PQ. Il y a 3 partis souverainiste avec des députés à l'Assemblée nationale. Un de gauche, Québec Solidaire, un de droite, Coalition…
I Love These Songs
I’m not sure what it is about these songs, but I’ve played them over and over again. Some of the videos are OK as well. But really, it’s the music.…
A Taste of America
You should be cynical when it comes to a company peddling sugar water, but I haven’t felt such an emotional connection to a commercial in a long time. As a…
Moncton’s Fashion Magazine: Pink Blitz
Moncton, New Brunswick, has a fashion magazine. Moncton. New Brunswick. I'm not from Moncton. I've been here the latter part of a decade. My first impression of Moncton: people are…
Time To Switch From Trudeau to Mirabel
Planes at Trudeau airport in Dorval/Montreal are an incredible source of noise pollution. So much so that the airport has a curfew. Solution: close Trudeau and make Mirabel Montreal’s 24…
Somewhere Between is a Great Doc
Netflix just earned my monthly 8 bucks again. Somewhere Between is perhaps a bit of a chick-doc, but there are enough geopolitical economic undertones to keep the coldest intellectual male…
University Dropout Jason Kenney Gets Rebuked By Courts
Jason Kenney, Canada's minister of citizenship and immigration, dropped out of philosophy studies at University of San Francisco. A cabinet minister without a university degree? Even the Harper Conservatives can…
Absinthe Minded Olivia Munn
I watched the Cabin episode of New Girl (City in Canada, Hulu in the USA) with Olivia Munn drinking absinthe. My thought when I watched her jug some of the…
TMZ Now on This Blog
TMZ was a blog that turned into a TV show. Well now you can embed TMZ, the TV show, not the blog, on your own blog. That makes way more…
Modern Seinfeld
Ricky Gervais, Jerry Seinfeld and an Austin Healey in an unothorised screen capture of the Death Machine episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee. While writing this post I got…
Fly Montreal-Vancouver and get a free trip to Vegas!
Bellingham-Plattsburgh rt via Vegas (Allegiant):$314 ($434 with bag) + 2 hotel nights Vancouver, Twice a Day On the dates I checked in February, Allegiant flies 2 flights a day to…
Free News
Shortcut: http://j.mp/news2013 We don’t pay for maps or encyclopedias any more, why should we pay for news or, worse, opinions? Pay for news if you want, but I prefer to…
Ski Lake Louise Now In Google Streetview
If this view isn’t enough to get you to contact your travel agent, it should at least motivate you to connect your computer to your high definition television set. It’s…
$29.3 Million F1 Fraud, Texas Style
“State Comptroller Susan Combs has approved payment of $29.3 million from the state Major Events Trust Fund to organizers of November’s Formula One race” “Under trust fund rules, the amount…
iPhone Maker Using Slave Labour
16 year old teens working for free, including nights. Ironically, that is the case of many teens in Ontario, where a volonteer internship is mandatory. But from a French perspective,…
Alberta and Atlantic Canada Should become One
As you know, many people born in Atlantic Canadians now live in Alberta. A recent unfortunate example of this is an elderly lady who's entire family is in Alberta. She…
False Confessions on 60 Minutes
I had to pause the latest 60 Minutes report on False Confessions because it was getting me angry. People become bureaucratically stupid. Remember that unilingual blind man’s dog that was…
The Amazing Race Visits Canada, via Australia, Cuba
The American Amazing Race has been to Montreal and other Canadian destinations, but I took significant pride in my country watching the Aussies navigate Vancouver. Highlights include: -Australians signing the…