by Eric Pettifor Remember all those episodes of the various Star Treks where characters were genetically altered, either willingly or unwillingly, by some means or other? It would happen within the course of a single episode and be neatly fixed at the end, with a hypo from the lovely Dr. Crusher. In reality, of course, […]
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No Murdoch-style scandal in Canada, you say?
By Alison@Creekside We’ve been getting a lot of stories from our media lately (here, here, and here), assuring us that an equivalent to the Rupert Murdoch scandal couldn’t possibly happen in Canada. Really? No cozy incestuous relationships? No dirty tricks? On March 30, 2009, Stephen Harper, PMO staffer Kory Teneycke, Rupert Murdoch, owner of Fox […]
Revisited: Sun TV’s Ezra problem
With the Sun News Network lately embarked on a jihad against government funding of the arts, it might be worth remarking: at least when artists are given money, they do what they’re supposed to do with it. On the other hand, we have the example of SNN costume rack Ezra Levant, who, when he shut […]
A Dance With Dragons: Worth the Wait?
By Rachel Krueger George R R Martin’s series A Song of Ice and Fire, while long a big deal in fantasy basements, is now officially a Big Deal™. The HBO series based on the first installation, A Game of Thrones, has both brought the series into the fantasy-abjuring eye and put a much-appreciated amount of pressure […]
SUN TV Snooze Network
By Montreal Simon Well I finally got a chance to watch Sun TV Nooz. After calling my cable channel to make sure I wasn’t paying for it eh? And all I can say is they should change the name of Ezra Levant’s show from The Source to The Sauce. Because anyone who watches this low […]
Lay off the Sheen
by Rachel Krueger This is me trying not to write about Charlie Sheen and failing. Not writing about Charlie Sheen is more difficult than deciding whether to laugh at or pity him, which is weirdly hard. Because on the one hand, the man is a barrel of allegedly sober monkeys. He’s funnier now than he […]
McLuhan saw this coming
By Dave Brindle Lost in all of the hum online about Egypt and the CRTC was that 2011 is the 100th anniversary of the birth of Marshall McLuhan. He was right. When I tweeted that, my friend Rod Mickleburgh of The Globe and Mail shot back: @davebrindleshow mcluhan was certainly right when he gave my […]
Battle of the Bigots
By Rachel Krueger A white supremacist group called The Council of Conservative Citizens is outraged that Marvel has cast Idris Elba as Heimdall in Thor, because he is foxy. I mean, black. They probably don’t appreciate that foxy black men exist in the world, but it is definitely the blackness that they are pissed about. […]
Jack up the crazy: Courtney’s reality show
by Rachel Krueger This is what we’re doing now, Universe? It’s not enough that Snooki has a book deal and that the Bieber-fetus has a biopic. We’re giving Courtney Love a reality show now? Because this show isn’t going to be whatever Courtney thinks this show is going to be (“America’s Next Top Model” meets […]
Did Katy Perry make a boob of Sesame Street?
By Rachel Krueger Katy Perry’s boobs have been deemed unfit for audiences aged 1-6. Shocked, are we? The singer’s duet with Elmo, already disseminated via the Youtubes, won’t be appearing on Sesame Street after all. Perry sings a reworking of her song “Hot N Cold” where lines such as “like a bitch, I should know” […]
