By Nathaniel Moher Well BC, earlier this month we went out in droves and voted. [Editor’s Note: Actually Natty, “droves” is a bit misleading, only around 50-52 per cent of eligible voters voted.] [Journalist’s Note: Sorry, half? Only half of eligible voters voted? You must mean 102 per cent. Like there’s some controversy that maybe […]
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BC Liberals win: Why am I not surprised?
By David@Sixthestate.net I’m not terribly interested in speculating, at least for the moment, about why the pollsters would be devastatingly incorrect — again — about a provincial election campaign, this time in British Columbia. My guess is that in this case it has something to do with young people not voting, but again, the answer […]
Taxes are bad — unless, of course, they’re good
By David@Sixthestate.net Here’s a puzzle for my readers: try to guess which one of the following two editorials, each of them discussing a slight bump in the tax rate for the wealthiest individuals, comes from The Globe and Mail, and which one comes from the local leftist rag: An extra two per cent is a […]
The Newfoundland solution
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten Any actor, writer, director, or producer will tell you the film and television industry is unstable: The feed bag is either overflowing or has just enough grains to sustain you through the lean months. But with the B.C. film industry on the verge of collapse, as Hollywood productions head to Ontario and […]
BC throws a film party — for India
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Elections Canada casts a wider net, finally
By David@Sixthestate.net The Council of Canadians has posted a new series of documents in relation to their robocall litigation. As you can see, they are attempting to get an affidavit from an Elections Canada investigator, and Elections Canada is attempting to avoid this. More intriguingly, though, another couple of warrants have been released in the […]
Amanda Todd’s avengers: not Anonymous enough
By Frank Moher As much as one would like to see some sort of justice for Amanda Todd, the 15-year old BC girl who took her life last week after years of cyber-bullying, what’s gone down on the internet in the last few days is truly disturbing. On Monday, someone purporting to be part of […]
Happy 40th, Beachcombers
By Mark Leiren-Young Forty years ago today, on October 1, 1972, CBC launched “The Beachcombers,” making Canadian television history and the Gibsons tourist industry. “The Beachcombers” became a fixture for Canadian families for almost 20 years. A few weeks after the show’s cancellation in 1990, I interviewed Robert Clothier – aka Relic, the show’s crusty […]
TV the way Lucy likes it
Sit-coms have never exactly flourished on Canadian TV, but the success of YTV’s “Mr. Young” may be about to change that ~~ By Emily Olesen ~~ Sitting in the Mr. Young audience is like watching a live action cartoon. Props from past episodes adorn the walls of the studio, including oversized products from “Cyclops Wholesale […]
Chip bandits and Nic Cage: Canada’s very viral week
It’s been a very good week for Canadian students on the internet. Or perhaps a very bad one. First, York University student Vanessa Hojda went viral after she accidentally attached a picture of actor Nicolas Cage to a job application, rather than her resumé. It wasn’t so much the fact that she made a mistake […]
