Marni Ko Randy Troppmann is an Edmonton multimedia developer and an avid runner. He’s also well on his way to becoming something of a household name among joggers. Getting over 20,000 visitors a month, Troppmann’s new website runningmap.com uses licensed content from Yahoo Maps in an innovative application designed to help runners, hikers, and walkers […]
Update
Update to story below: Calgary Herald Editor-in-Chief Lorne Motley has issued a response. He says the paper has commissioned Calgary playwright Eugene Stickland to write a piece on Rick McNair for this coming weekend.
Maclean’s: higher, deeper
By Frank Moher Maclean’s keeps digging itself in deeper (and the you-know-what higher) on its Regina file. (See previous post or do a Google search.) On Tuesday, it published a full page ad in the Regina Leader-Post, reprinting a letter to the editor that had run in that paper on January 20th. It begins: “My […]
Theatre wiz Rick McNair deserved better
Brian Brennan Rick McNair died in Winnipeg this past week. The Winnipeg newspapers did the right thing. They ran big stories saying what a wonderful contribution Rick had made to the local theatre scene as former artistic director of the Manitoba Theatre Centre, founder of the Winnipeg Fringe Festival, storyteller, actor, playwright, opera librettist, and […]
The data that got away
How can we safely destroy our data? The simplest thing is to not produce any. Then there won’t be any to destroy. Too late? You already have data? Ok, then follow these 4 steps. Never share or lose control of your data. Become a multibillionaire. Create a facility for launching things into the sun. Launch […]
Herouxville’s village idiots
Just when you think that French Canadians aren’t all that racist (even if their cousins across the Atlantic are), some creepy Quebecker does something so incredibly ignorant that you can hardly believe we let la not-always belle province stay in the country. What was Andre Drouin’s intention, exactly, when he led town council to formalize […]
Thankyou, Maclean’s Man. Thankyou.
See Jonathon Gatehouse fly. See Jonathon Gatehouse soar. Jonathon Gatehouse soars over the firmament, landing only when he or his editors at Maclean’s decide he is needed. He is — MACLEAN’S MAN. Damascus, Minneapolis, Montreal, Tel Aviv, Winnipeg. Jonathon Gatehouse circles the globe and, when duty calls, dons his parachute and jumps. Parachute journalism is […]
The mammogram scam
Marnie Ko It takes a brave man to criticize long established traditions and years of prevailing medical wisdom. But on the weekend, Dr. W. Gifford Jones, aka Ken Walker, M.D., a syndicated columnist writing for over 200 newspapers, including the Edmonton Sun, did just that. And he knew when he did it that he was […]
A tale of two ethics
The wide release of Windows Vista this week, and the billions that will be spent to buy it over the next few years, prompts one to ask: how exactly did we get into this mess? Once upon a time, not so long ago, computers were big things owned by businesses, governments, and universities. That changed […]
In nobody’s yard except the pig farmer’s
So whose problem is the surreal level of violence against Aboriginal women in Canada? I am so monumentally pissed that I am ready to fire everybody, including the organizations run by Aboriginal women. It seems like nobody — absolutely nobody — is bringing their lunch pail to work on this problem. On Monday, October 4, […]
