Just got back from two icy days in Ottawa where I was privileged to be a block away from Parliament for the historic first defeat of the minority Liberal government’s legislazzzzzzzz, oh sorry, I drifted off for a second there. Anyway, I was presenting at “Creating Canada,” a symposium sponsored by the Canadian magazine industry […] More »
It has been less than a week, but I’m in love with the National Post, under new editor Douglas Kelly. Their coverage of the NHL cancellation today is outstanding, and overall the Post is absolutely destroying the Globe and Mail in every area, except Arts coverage. (The Post’s Arts section remains iredeemably trashy.) It can’t […] More »
If you live in Toronto you should check this out….Good music, a good cause…Ain’t nothing better than that. “Welcome to our Living Room” A Benefit for the Toronto Public Space Committee an evening of seven solo performances by: Sarah Harmer Bob Wiseman Jason Collett (broken social scene) Andre Ethier (deadly snakes) Magali Meagher (the phonemes) […] More »
I’ve been meaning to post this for a couple of weeks now, but I’ve been a wee bit busy learning about this thing called magazine publishing. Yup, I just wrapped up my third week here at This Magazine and I just wanted to thank all the staff, Board, contributors, volunteers and This Mag supporters who […] More »
Is a high abortion rate a sign of social decay? Or is it a sign of progressive social policy with respect to freedom of choice and access? Or none of the above? These sorts of questions went completely unasked in the english-Canadian press this weekend. On Friday, Statscan released a study which reported the seemingly […] More »
The Warren-Kinsella-against-the-world show continues, with a new player upon the stage, Andrew Coyne. To quickly recap: Coyne wrote a very good piece in yesterday’s Post summarising the motherlode of BS that Crouton and the Headwaiter are asking us to believe about the “Sponsorship Program” (which, depending on whom you ask, either did or did not […] More »
Lucienne Robillard is Canada’s Minister for Intergovernmental Affairs. What sort of stuff does that involve? Well, it took me a while to find out. That’s because, if you go to the Government of Canada website and click on “Departments and Agencies”, and poke around the A-Z listings, you’ll find links to plenty of interesting sites. […] More »