This Magazine’s new co-editor of This & That, Shawn Micallef, has brought his [murmur] project to Calgary. Made popular in Toronto’s Kensington Market and Annex neighbourhoods, [murmur] is a story-telling tool that allows passersby to hear tales of the city told through their cellphones—simply look for green [murmur] signs in key locations, call the number […] More »
Reporting in from my vacation in the heartland of America. I’ve been spending a bit of time reading and writing on a typical American college campus. Lots of football players practicing for the big game on Saturday, and the basketball team has started early training—season starts in November. Browsing the off-campus bookstores, I ran across […] More »
The powers that be at the Edmonton Art Gallery (soon to be renamed THE ART GALLERY OF ALBERTA) have announced their choice to design the brand new art gallery. The headline in today’s Edmonton Journal reads Art gallery designed as work of art What do you think? Post your opinions …hence the entry title. The […] More »
My favourite indie band Broken Social Scene is discussed in a feature in the October 7 issue of Maclean’s magazine. It’s a good read (it’s not particularly deep or anything, but it quotes Leslie Feist), and don’t get me wrong, this is not another gratuitous bash at Maclean’s (cause it just as easily could be […] More »
News that evidence of a distinct species of man has been found in Indonesia has to be one of the more exciting developments of the year. Scientists believe the homonids, nicknamed hobbits because they only grew to be three feet tall, were alive as recently as 12,000 years ago. Not only is this long after […] More »
As CBC employees get back to work today (thankfully), the Globe is reporting that Telus and the Telecommunications Workers Union have agreed to a new contract. Workers at the country’s second-largest telecom have been locked out since July 21, mainly in Western Canada. It’s been a bitter struggle, and from what I can tell it’s […] More »
photo credit: HANS DERYK / TORONTO STAR I hope Ottawa takes some time to really celebrate last night’s season opening shoot-out victory, so when they inevitably lose to Toronto in the first round of the playoffs, they will have some emotional buffer. (Thank god hockey’s back. Now we can stop thinking about politics.) More »
I think the thing that surprises me the most about the IRA arsenal, which was destroyed in its entirety last week according to retired Canadian general John de Chastelain (who oversaw the weapons destruction), is how few weapons this group had. Only about 750 really nasty rifles and but one (one!) surface to air (SAM) […] More »
The CBC and its employees have reached a tentative agreement to end the 50-day-old lockout. Terms of the deal include a $1,000 signing bonus for each worker, a 9.5% cap of contract workers on the staff and a wage increase of 12.6% over the life of the contract (through March, 2009), according to the Canadian […] More »
Some people might consider Seattle foursome Harvey Danger to be a one-hit wonder, owing to the 1998 song that made them semi-famous: “Flagpole Sitta.” I actually really liked the whole Where Have All the Merrymakers Gone? album, which featured clever lyrical wordplay and bright, heavy rock ‘n’ roll. Now the band has decided to release […] More »