UPDATE: Hey look, Paul Wells reviewed the Massive Change show! I’m in Vancouver right now, where everyone wears Lululemon clothes as streetwear. Great city. I’m excited to see Bruce Mau’s Massive Change exhibition at the VAG. The show has recieved mixed reviews so far. Has anyone out there seen it? Feel free to post your […] More »

From Cristina Odone’s column in the Observer yesterday. Odone resigned last week as deputy editor of the New Statesman, a lefty UK weekly with a circ of 25,000 (small by UK standards) that “punches above its weight.” (Where have we heard that one before?) Odone was a “God-botherer” and “non-lefty” who was won over by […] More »

Federal Health Minister Ujjal Dosanjh, perhaps upset by Andrew Potter’s continued mocking of his boss as a Head Waiter, “accidentally” spills a carafe of cold water down the backs of the provinces. From The Globe: “I can tell you with $41-billion dollars additional, there is now no excuse on the part of the provinces to […] More »

David Frum has a question: “Speaking of media bias, here’s a question you won’t hear in our big papers or on network TV: Does Yasser Arafat have AIDS?” Not that I’m checking the national review or anything. Got the link from the good people at Crooked Timber More »

As Paul Wells put on his blog yesterday, the PWAC is fighting the latest demand by CanWest Global that freelancers give the company “the right to exclusively use and exploit the Content in any manner and in any and all media, whether now known or hereafter devised, throughout the universe, in perpetuity.” These sorts of […] More »

Chances are, if you’re channel surfing tonight (on your radio or TV) you’ll come across This Magazine’s super fantastic publisher Joyce Byrne, talking about our little side project www.marryanamerican.ca. You can catch Joyce tonight on CTV National News, CityTV news and Toronto 1 news. If you’re in the States, you can hear her on National […] More »

The New York Times has dragged progressive America into the next stage of electoral grief – angry recrimination, in which Democrats and the rest on the… what’s the word?… left point their fingers at each other and try to muddle out a response to this god awful mess. It’s a game I like to play […] More »

In the fall of 2004, Americans are torn, as evidenced by a high voter turnout with the electorate split cleanly down the middle. Interestingly, it seems American progressives are similarly split. On one hand, you have Michael Moore, completely wrong on all his projections and hunches and hopes and optimism (by the way, where were […] More »

Now that 80% of everyone in Canada, and 99% of participants on this blog, will have finally awakened to the fact that wishful thinking and a buck fifty won’t even get you a coffee at Starbucks, let alone a coffee AND your preferred leader of the free world, maybe we can turn our attention back […] More »

I will leave the opining to my collagues today for the most part, because I am tired, and sad. But to me the saddest and most disappointing thing of all was the outright rejection of the same-sex marriage agenda in every state it was put on the ballot. Whatever happened last night, one or the […] More »

The Stella Artois brewery in Leuven, Belgium is refusing to ship any product to North America until the Ohio provisional ballots are all counted. For those not following this blog for very long, Andrew Potter and I have a one beer bet riding on the outcome of the US Presidential election, which is still officially […] More »