22 Sep 2007 Canadian Indie-Rock Primer (canada, music)

Don’t you love it when two awesome things come together? My fave pop-culture web site, The A.V. Club delivers a cool primer — complete with tons of videos — on the Canadian indie music scene, which has just been going from great to Ubergreat for the past few years. It’s a pretty cool […]

01 Jul 2007 “what a drag”, indeed (annoyances, canada, media)

On the Canada Day theme, I just want to harp on one of my favourite targets: bad statistics in the media. The Globe and Mail has a prominently featured article, Canadian citzenship and the generational divide, which claims that something called “The Dominion Institute” has found there are “remarkably different attitudes among those between […]

01 Jul 2007 happy 140th, you big ol’ country, you (canada)

Is it shallow to feel a tinge of national hipster-geek pride just because my country happens to be producing a lot of great indie music right now? Probably, but still, I’m listening to the CBC Radio 3 all-request Canada Day podcast, and frankly, we rock. My recent proudest moments as a Canadian were […]

02 May 2007 Yann Martel vs Stephen Harper (books, canada, politics)

Yann Martel has attempted to join in the prestigious circle of successful novelists to publicly crawl up their own asses.