David Kilgour, MP for Edmonton Beaumont. This Globe story has Kilgour, a former Liberal but now an independent, being the essential link in the chain that could see the Liberal Party defeating a non-confidence motion next month and clinging to power just long enough to pass some crucial legislation, now all tempered by a possible […] More »
From the Sunday New York Times: Democratic Moral Values? While the Democratic Party traces its ideological lineage on economic issues to the New Deal, its DNA on social issues was created by the union of the two principal movements of the 1960’s: civil rights and the antiwar counterculture. The two are generally discussed as part […] More »
John Paul II was the first wired pope, and he received many an emailed prayer. But if you don’t have his current coordinates (does heaven have high-speed?) You might try emailing the new pope (in English) at [email protected]. He has a separate address for Italian queries. I think I’ll tell him how much I like […] More »
Violence as 10,000 winegrowers protest at French overproduction A group of 50 young wine producers hurled molotov cocktails, cobble stones, bottles and flares at riot police at the end of a turbulent but mostly peaceful demonstration by 10,000 growers from the French deep south. Ok, that’s it. I’m moving to France. If anyone reading this […] More »
So Paul Martin is going to talk directly to the people tonight. Great. But what could he have to say that could not — indeed, should not — be told in, and to, Parliament? More »
We just got the May/June 2005 issue of Utne in the office and there’s a great story in it about Toronto’s indie magazine scene and why it’s so gosh darn hot. Anyways, the article singles out This as one of the great Toronto-based mags, calling us a feisty independent. Also, mentioned are Spacing, Brick, Kiss […] More »
Well, if Potter is going to get all poetic on us, I’ll join in. This is from Jonathan Bennett’s 2004 collection of the same name—from ECW Press: Here is my street, this tree I planted for Raghavan, among others You still take yourself as you used to, the village’s red dust in a dry mouth, […] More »
Is poetry the perfect literary form for the digital age? Are we in for a golden age of clerihews and couplets, blank verse and sonnets? Why not? Yesterday was all F.R. Scott, but this evening was spent with John Degen’s Killing Things. Then I check my email, and there’s a note from my friend Brad […] More »
I was in Ottawa last Friday, attending a daylong session of the Canadian Conference of the Arts designed to get arts and culture types better access to government. Ed Broadbent sat on a panel with three other MPs, discussing ways we ordinary plebes can get to government and maybe even influence policy on issues near […] More »
Well, The Corporation is out on DVD. How do I know this? Well, largely thanks to the full-page ads that have been running nonstop in local and national print media for the past few weeks. The ads have been inescapable. But of course, as Joel Bakan writes in the book version of The Corporation: Advertising […] More »