If we stand on the shoulders of the dead, we can make millions!
By Rachel Krueger
If 2009 was The Year When All Those Famous People Died, 2010 is shaping up to be The Year of Chronic Grave-Robbing (where the “grave” is metaphorical and the “robbing” is more like “exploiting”).
Mind-bogglingly unsubtle fame-whore and living manga doll Tila Tequila (who is famous solely for throwing herself repeatedly and frantically into [...]
Part II: On being disappeared by The National Post
By Frank Moher
In our last episode, I said I’d tell you what I found out about why my review of What the Furies Bring disappeared from The National Post website a day after being put up. My little investigation provides a tonic insight into what happens when journalists find themselves on the receiving end of [...]
“Everybody does it,” and other reasons to prorogue democracy
By Alison@Creekside
Top Ten Reasons to Prorogue Democracy . . . so far:
~ Recalibratin’ Economic Action Plan Pt 2 — but not making any changes
~ We got nearly everything we wanted passed anyway
~ Busy busy busy back home on winter barbie circuit
~ Everybody does it, albeit mostly in the 19th century
~ Only “elites” and “chattering classes” [...]
Democracy is so last year
By Alison@Creekside
This is what democracy looks like.
It’s 1.2 million people marching on Mexico City in 2006 to denounce the abrogation of their right to fair democratic representation by their government.
You know why I’m posting this picture.
For the second time in a year, Steve the Despot and Her Excellency of the Rubber Stamp have dismissed Parliament [...]
Tiger beat
By Rachel Krueger
Alright, to save time we’re going to go ahead and take a head-count. If you have slept with Tiger Woods, I’m going to need you to go ahead and raise your hand. Yes, the young lady in the pink, I see that hand. Yes, ma’am, you and your daughter, check. [...]
Any ideas to declare?
By Frank Moher
We’ve now seen, for the second time in recent memory, a journalist being harassed by Canadian border guards while trying to enter the country. Three years ago, American talk-radio host and filmmaker Alex Jones was detained for four hours, in the middle of the night, by Citizenship and Immigration Canada agents in Ottawa [...]
Leaping Flames
By Jodi A. Shaw
From the very beginning of the H1N1/Swine Flu drama, I’ve had zero intention of getting a flu shot. Nevertheless, even I am infuriated by the preferential treatment given to the Calgary Flames players and their families.
I don’t blame the Flames’ medical team for requesting special treatment (it doesn’t hurt to [...]
Too funny too soon?
By Rachel Krueger
Last Thursday night, David Letterman admitted to having doinked some of his female staff, and hearts could be heard breaking all over the country. And not like they did the night previous when Nigel Barker’s wife showed her sleek, feline face on “America’s Next Top Model,” but like they do when you find [...]
I’mma thinkin it was a set-up
By Rachel Krueger
The VMAs went from a fairly unexceptional awards show to one mildly more . . . gossip-worthy, if not entertaining, thanks to the potentially staged shenanigans of one Kanye West. With all the subtlety of Bruno’s Sacha Baran Cohen landing balls-first in Eminem’s face at the MTV Movie Awards, Kanye stormed the [...]
Headlines we wish we’d never read
Yes, you read that right. MSNBC regards its country’s debate as to what constitutes torture — which I thought had been resolved in Geneva a few decades back — as cause for a bad bit of frat-boy humour.
And this is the States’ supposedly leftish cable network.