By Mark Leiren-Young A long time ago in a theatre far far away — okay, 1991 at The Vancouver East Cultural Centre just before Valentine’s Day — my comedy partner Kevin Crofton and I launched ourselves as the satirical duo Local Anxiety in a show called “A CBC Love Affair,” featuring another comedy couple, Double […]
Buddy’s back and the Kids never really left
By TJ Dawe “The Colbert Report”‘s decision to send Scott Thompson’s Buddy Cole character to Sochi to cover the Winter Olympics was perfect, not only because it’s been great to have Buddy back — on Wednesday night he almost got arrested while “protesting” that he couldn’t get a drink — but because it reminds us […]
A Modest Opinion – The true Olympians
By Nathaniel Moher The Olympics are well underway. Olympians are doing Olympic things, getting bronze, silver, and gold medals (that they will be able to melt down and trade once the economy collapses thanks to you freeloading poors! Sorry, I’m still on about that — but seriously, you guys grind my gears!). And sure, it’s […]
Hart Hanson makes his Bones
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten If art can be entertaining, can entertainment be art? Hart Hanson, creator and showrunner of the Fox television series Bones, visited the University of British Columbia recently to discuss his experiences as a nice Canadian boy working in the rough-and-tumble of Hollywood for the past decade. In the course of offering advice […]
Leaked docs throw new light on Fair Elections Act
By Alison@Creekside Last week, the Star published a half dozen articles based on secret memos and a 70-page slide show about the Cons’ 2015 election war room strategies, anonymously leaked to them, and as presented to the Conservative National Council (above) by Harper’s former dcomm and now executive director of the CPC, Dimitri Soudas: “Everything we do […]
Wonderland
By Dave Brindle To protect his identity, I’ll just call him the kid. He’s only just turned 19 — 19 going on 13. He’s from a broken home where alcohol was the addiction. He was kicked out of high school in grade 11. He’s no longer allowed in the mall. He gets chased out by […]
Problem: Too much democracy. Solution: Fair Elections Act.
By Alison@Creekside “What problems are the Conservatives really trying to solve with bizarre Fair Elections Act?” asked Andrew Coyne in an excellent column two days ago. I’d like to pillage that question and expand on it a bit. Problem: Investigation into election fraud in 2011 Election, 33 months ago, being rushed along at dangerous breakneck […]
Fair Elections Act: Bleeding democracy
By Montreal Simon One of the most outrageous aspects of Stephen Harper’s new voter suppression scheme, a.k.a The Fair Elections Act, is how many Canadians it would disenfranchise. Canada’s chief electoral officer says eliminating a registered voter’s ability to vouch for another could impact more than 100,000 people, most of them aboriginals who live on […]
A Modest Opinion – A Plea for the Wealthy
By Nathaniel Moher A recent study showed that the 85 richest people in the world have as much money as the poorest three billion (which can’t be that much, I mean, those three billion people are poor). Now, I’m sure most of you are pretty upset to hear that. (I assume you’re all poor too […]
Extra, extra, not dead yet
By Rod Mickleburgh The trend is not good for newspapers. Ad revenue is down, circulation is down, the number of stories are down, employment is down. Newspapers are starting to look like vinyl did when shiny new CDs showed up. So old-fashioned, a refuge only for fuddy-duddies and luddites. Record buyers everywhere ditched their collections […]
