Door-to-door delivery going the way of the telegraph.
Canada Post has announced that it will cease door-to-door mail delivery, becoming the first postal service in the world to stop doing what it was intended to do. Once again,…
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My new approach to winter? Ignore it.
Do you know how hard it is to avoid the weather? If you walk out of your house, it’s impossible, of course. What I’m talking about is avoiding conversation or…
Hello, Black Friday. Goodbye, Boxing Day.
It’s not very often that you see a full-blown change in the landscape happen right before your eyes, but I think we’ve just seen one. The future, I think, is…
Revealed! Who killed Kennedy!
November 22, 1963. Death of a president. Birth of an industry. There have been an estimated 40,000 books (seriously — this is an actual New York Times estimate) written about…
The Slocomb Solution: how the media can avoid the ‘P’ word.
”Today’s the day my pussy comes of age!” – Mrs. Slocomb The newsrooms of North America — which are mostly vast empty spaces littered with empty desks and a handful…
Why I feel sorry for Rob Ford.
I now officially feel sorry for Rob Ford. Oh, I’m not saying that he should stay on as mayor of Toronto. I am in no way supporting this morbidly obese,…
Goodbye Rick Miller, one of the good ones.
It was a few days after the disastrous provincial election of 2008, when the entire Class of Edmonton Alberta Liberals 2004 when down to unexpected (and unwarranted) defeat at the…
A quick look at the Ward 5 candidates.
I’m sure regular readers of this blog (assuming such a creature exists) are looking to me for guidance about how to cast their vote on Monday. I am far too…
Iveson vs. Leibovici a generational battle.
Polls indicate that Don Iveson will be the next mayor of Edmonton. Of course, polling has been about as on-target lately as the Edmonton Eskimo offence. Polls also said Christie…
Eskimos need new brains at front office as well as on the field.
For the first time in recent memory, the Edmonton Eskimos appear destined to not lead the league in attendance. With Mosaic Stadium in Regina on steroids in preparation for the…
Memo to council candidates: here’s how to get my vote.
The civic election campaign is now officially underway, even though, judging from the thousands of signs that are now mostly knocked down along city boulevards, it has been on unofficially…
The further confessions of Justin Trudeau.
Liberal leader Justin Trudeau admitted this week to taking a puff of marijuana once since being elected as an MP. He said he did not enjoy it, has not taken…
It’s TV’s golden age … except in Canada.
There is no doubt that we are living in a golden age of television. Once looked down upon as a lesser form of entertainment in relation to the lordly world…
The Royal Whatsit: Much ado about nothing
Chances are you are at least dimly aware that William the Nearly Bald, future King of England and (sigh) Canada, successfully knocked up his wife, the comely Kate Middleton. The…
Small town news in the ‘big city’
As a news junkie and former member of the Fourth Estate, I’ve always had a fascination not just with the actual news, but how it is presented. For example, as…
TSN NHL draft coverage preview … round 13.
“Welcome back, Canada, to TSN’s continuing coverage of the 2013 NHL entry draft. I’m Gord Miller, and after 13 rounds of this, even I’m running out of droll things to…
Trudeau’s the rubber, Harper the glue.
“I’m rubber, you’re glue. Your words bounce off me and stick to you.” That juvenile little axiom popped into my head today as I contemplated the amazing Rubber Man, Justin…
Pros and cons of Edmonton’s mayoralty candidates.
First off, thank you Kerry Diotte, Karen Leibovici and Don Iveson. Thank you all for giving Edmontonians the best mayoralty race in years, likely better than 2004 when Stephen Mandel…
Stephen Harper, stay just the way you are.
Brent Rathgeber … hero? I never thought that an MP once called a “carbon blob” by a blogger (that would be me) would ever be hailed as a hero, but…
Gas prices soar! Media yawns.
The price of gasoline has soared in Edmonton in the past week, beginning with the traditional holiday weekend gouging, and continuing with another outrageous 6-cent a litre hike on Wednesday.…