A BoB Short Despite new laws regulating the production of medical marijuana, including limiting grow ops to industrial areas, some jurisdictions remain unmoved in their opposition to the burgeoning industry. After six companies in Sudbury, Ontario applied for commercial licences to grow medical marijuana within the city, local police chief Paul Pedersen got a little, […]
Bryan Adams, Newfoundland, and The Holocaust
A BoB short Presumably torn between his roles as a Canadian icon and politically-active celebrity, rock-icon Bryan Adams has adamantly kept the seal-hunting debate out of his shows. But while promoting his tour of Atlantic Canada, he was asked by The Telegram if performing in Newfoundland and Labrador was hypocritical, given his ties to PETA […]
At least somebody wants to visit Toronto
A BoB short Southern Ontario residents beware. According to an independent study released earlier this week, citizens of Windsor, Hamilton, Toronto, and London are more likely than any other Canadians to be devoured by an undead hoard. The report, prepared by University of Alberta engineering graduate and blogger Michael Ross, ranks 20 Canadian cities on […]
A Port Alberni Nativity
By Kevin Annett The last Christmas we were all together hangs over memory like the fog that year in the Alberni Valley. It was a time of gathering, two years and more of labour summoning so many together where once there were but a few. And it was a time of ending. The church stewards […]
You call this festive?
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Cinema is in the middle of a pandemic. Every day of the year, a film festival is taking place somewhere, or somewheres, in theatres, lecture halls, community centres. Vancouver alone hosts at least a dozen. There’s the Queer one, the Asian one, the South African one, the Latin American one, the Polish […]
Crowdsourcing hockey
By TJ Dawe Hockey season is upon us. The tellers in my bank wear game day jerseys. People refer to their team in the possessive — “we” — despite the fact that the only contribution individuals make is to buy sufficient gear and tickets to enrich the owners sufficiently to pay the salaries of better […]
Oil sands doc is on key
By Rod Mickleburgh A guy walks into a bar . . . That’s pretty much how film-maker Charles Wilkinson came to make his seductive documentary, Oil Sands Karaoke, about, of all things, a karaoke contest in the heart of you-know-what country, Fort McMurray. After being distinctly underwhelmed by two earlier forays during the Vancouver International Film […]
Canadian Comedy Awards: Who knew?
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten The Canadian Comedy Awards came and went again this past weekend. You’re probably thinking, or saying out loud (maybe you talk to yourself, I don’t presume anything), “Those exist? I’ve never heard of ’em.” And I would respond (out loud, because I do talk to myself), “That’s no surprise. They’ve only been […]
A Streetcar Named Disaster
By TJ Dawe Blue Jasmine, this year’s Woody Allen movie, is a pretty blatant reworking of A Streetcar Named Desire, but with a vital difference: the Blanche character doesn’t represent Tennessee Williams and his artistic sensitivity — she’s the personification of America, before and after the financial collapse. Here’s her story, in bullet points — […]
Broken Big
By Mark Leiren-Young So on Friday I got to interview the man who created the man who knocks. The interview with Vince Gilligan, creator and show runner of Breaking Bad, ended at about 2:40 pm. I raced out of Vancouver’s Sutton Place Hotel to find a place to transcribe it and write my story for […]
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