It’s Friday, and if you can’t find anything to procrastinate with, you’re just not trying hard enough. (Try it on “manic mode” for best results.) More »

Time to give you Film Clubbers a fix while we get the club back up and running (expect a return in November, by the way). If you’re in or around the Toronto area, the Toronto Public Space Committee’s Streets to Screens project has two Canadian premieres this Thursday for their Transit Tales night. The first […] More »

The Tories have taken Garth Turner’s executive washroom key away. It’s in the Globe. You know, Garth Turner…played third base for the Blue Jays in the 80’s. But here’s my question — who writes the Tory press statements? Check out Jaffer’s word-like things: “This is something that has been culminated since Mr. Turner’s election to […] More »

For those out there who think all I do on this blog is refer to Paul Wells’ blog (properly apostropheed this time) and then say something smarmy, read on. Wells wrote of Ignatieff yesterday: Michael Ignatieff’s campaign is now reduced to a kind of dare. If you don’t support him, it’s because you’re not sophisticated […] More »

Please note: I wrote this piece last week, and was about to post it when the news of Yankee pitcher Cory Lidle’s death in a tragic plane accident hit the media. I have held it to allow that terrible story due weight. Why We Love It When The Yanks Lose They’ve got all the money; […] More »

It’s not every day you look to Sun Media for criticism of the new federal government, or even back-handed support for Kyoto. And yet… Thanks to Paul Wells for pointing to this column in the Sun where Greg Weston reveals some shady play on the truth by Environment Minister Rona Ambrose. A report today by […] More »

Soup is Good Food directed us to a nifty campaign by Amnesty International, a campaign that now has a permanent presence in the right-hand column of Blog This. The idea is to spread the word about sites that are censored in their own countries by publishing their writings. Freedom of speech is a fundamental right […] More »

It’s about time we saw a campaign like this: Greenpeace has launched an effort to organize Apple customers and demand that the company employ non-toxic materials in its hardware. For those of us who consider themselves environmentalists and buy a lot of junk from Apple (myself included), it’s time to stop turning a blind eye […] More »

A nice post from The Conscious Earth serves as a reminder that oftentimes, activists are working for the common good rather than personal gain. Take David Suzuki. When Liberal party leadership candidate Stéphane Dion borrowed, um, liberally from Suzuki’s research for his environmental platform, Suzuki was pleased, saying, “the whole point of conducting and publishing […] More »

Residents of Vancouver’s Downtown Eastside woke up yesterday to the sounds of Woodward’s collapse. The heritage building, which has stood empty for nearly a decade – taking up an entire city block in the poorest neighbourhood in Canada, has been disputed over for years. While developers repeatedly bought and sold the derelict building, never actualizing […] More »

I was wondering the other day — whatever happened to that story about Ted Rogers going to someone’s house to apologize for a ridiculous cell-phone bill resulting from stolen service. We had a pretty good discussion about the media ethics aspects of the story on this blog at the time. It’s one of those corporate […] More »