Pastagate
On Thursday, the eyeroll news of the day in Canada was the Quebec language police’s decision that a Montreal restaurant could not have the word “pasta” on their menu. It’s a new twist on...
Author: Jonathan McLeod
New monument is too phallic with all these vulvas around
Without passing judgement on the wisdom of Vancouver city planners, this is not the sort of story I was expecting to read this morning:
Property Rights are Imaginary
For the first part of 2013, Canada has been in the grips of an existential crisis. The Idle No More movement saw Native Canadians voice their anger and frustration over centuries of abuse and...
Friday Night Jukebox: Muse
In the past few months, I haven’t been writing nearly as much as I would like. There are a number of reasons for this, but sometimes it just comes down to writer’s block. Recently,...
Friday Jukebox – Comment Rescue/Zero Dark Thirty Edition
In Ethan’s review of Zero Dark Thirty, Glyph notes: OK, this is totally irrelevant to the discussion, but I just went to Bigelow’s IMDB page to see if I had seen any of her...
Help an OG out
Our good friend and league founder Scott Payne is embarking on a new initiative, and he could use our help. He is applying for a new job with SumOfUs.org as their Canadian Campaign Manager....
We Give Until We Can Give No More
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Charity. Here is the introductory post for the Symposium. Here is a list of all posts so far. This post brings us to the end of...
Polytechnique
Today is Canada’s National Day of Remembrance and Action on Violence Against Women. December 6 is a sad day, for it was on December 6, 1989, that Marc Lepine murdered 14 women at L’Ecole...
Plunk.
Note: This post is part of our League Symposium on Charity. Here is the introductory post for the Symposium. Here is a list of all posts so far. “Daddy, why is that man sitting on the...
Charity Symposium
It was 4:10 am. My wife and I were awoken by a strange popping sound outside our window. I got up to investigate and found that the townhouses in our row were being engulfed...
Assassin’s Creed III: The Greatest Threat to Civilization
… or something… I guess. Take it away, Globe and Mail:
Friday Jukebox – Luke Doucet’s America
In the spirit of the election, here’s singer-songwriter Luke Doucet (with a special shoutout to Mike D’s Louisville): And, as a bonus, here he is – again with wife Melissa McClelland – covering a...
For Conor and Other Baseball Fans
In a recent post, Conor P. Williams and I have a bit of a back-and-forth about baseball and the late Montreal Expos. It made me think of a recent essay at The Barnstormer by Andrew...
Tuesday Morning Jukebox – More about babies
Since we have a bit of a Jukebox theme going, I thought I’d share two songs relating to my own young’uns… Glynis… …and Scarlet.
Scott H. Payne, Politician
In case anyone is wondering what Original Gentleman Scott Payne is doing, he’s running for the NDP nomination in Calgary Centre for an upcoming federal by-election. I’m sure we all wish him the best....
Yeah, about Rush…
Canadian trio Rush has been nominated for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. Considering their success and longevity, this seems warranted. And that’s all I’ll say about that.
