Brian Fawcett
Brian Fawcett (1944-2022) is a founding co-editor of dooneyscafe.com. He's the author of many books, including "Cambodia: A book for people who find television too slow" (1986), "Gender Wars" (1994), "Virtual Clearcut, or The Way Things Are in My Hometown" (2003), "Local Matters: A Defence of Dooney's Cafe and other Non-Globalized People, Places, and Ideas" (2003) and "Human Happiness" (2011).
Albert James Nielsen, March 14, 1944-March 30, 2010
My oldest friend, Don White, forwarded an obituary to me from the Prince George Citizen the other day. It was for Butch Nielsen, a man both of us were equally close to in our formative last two years of high school and for a few years after that. Butch and I were similar in several…
Read MoreOwning the Podium
Brian Fawcett is enjoying Canada’s failure to “Own the Podium” at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Here’s why.
Read MoreHow the Nazis took Germany
Brian Fawcett reviews Sebastian Haffner’s 1939 memoir of living in Nazi Germany before the Second World War
Read MoreFiguring Out Colonel Williams
The Ontario mass media, with their experienced reporters all drinking Sangria at the Winter Olympics, have let loose their cub reporters on the Colonel Russell Williams case…
Read MoreOn the absence of hatchet-work amongst Canada’s Book Reviewers
Brian Fawcett takes exception to Martin Levin’s characterization of Canadian book reviewers as lacking venom. He thinks Levin is part of the cause.
Read MoreCiccio’s Time
Brian Fawcett loses a cherished neighbour in downtown Toronto
Read MoreSaving Haiti
Brian Fawcett tries to reassert perspective in the face of the earthquake in Haiti.
Read MoreDiscovering Ulysses S. Grant
Brian Fawcett reads an 1885 memoir, and discovers a contemporary culture hero, complete with a code of conduct, along with a literary masterpiece.
Read MoreVancouver Before the Olympics
Brian Fawcett has a look at the upcoming Vancouver Winter Olympics, and Vancouver’s anxiety levels over them.
Read MoreWe Don’t Know How Lucky We Are
Brian Fawcett records the end of an exemplary life..
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