National Game: Quebec Bans Hockey Mask Face-Covering
Going too far? She shoots! She scores!
Read MoreMargaret Atwood’s Backyard
While the world spent the week weeping over once-in-500-year floods, possible apocalypses, and the latest barbarisms of Donald Trump (in short it was a typical Book-of-Revelations end-of-August 7-Days-That-Were kind of week), Canada remained focused on author Margaret Atwood’s backyard. According to the nation’s journal of record, Toronto Life, “Margaret Atwood is really mad about some…
Read MoreDemocracy, Two Cheers for…
[Courtesy of CBC:] NDP Leader John Horgan to be next premier of British Columbia Lt.-Gov. Judith Guichon asked Horgan to form a government after Christy Clark lost a confidence vote By Justin McElroy, CBC News Posted: Jun 29, 2017 8:17 PM PT Last Updated: Jun 29, 2017 10:19 PM PT NDP Leader John Horgan will become premier of British…
Read MoreNative-born Immigrants. Huh?
In the wake of the one-man terrorist attack at Westminster, London — the parliamentary site of Britain’s government — on Wednesday, March 22, 2017, Dooney’s Dictionary is asking an oxymoronic question (emphasis on the moronic part): How does a native-born Brit get instantly transformed into an “immigrant”? Of course, the real answer is: he doesn’t.…
Read MoreDiversity
TRUMP AND DIVERSITY:……………….Notice anything in these pics? Number of men: all. Number of women: 0. Number of whites: all. Number of non-white gentlemen: 0. Number of transgendered non-white non-male non-hetero nonentities? You figure it out. Getting the picture? LikeShow more reactions Update: Swedish Deputy PM Isabella Lovin spoofs Trump gang as she signs new climate…
Read MoreBob Dylan wins Nobel Prize for Lit. Well, why not?
Snobbishly enraged by Nobel for Dylan? “Ah, but I was so much older then / I’m younger than that now.”
Read MoreThe Camel and I
The camels are coming!
Read MoreInsiders, Outsiders
How to keep your head (and mind) when most of the “narrative” about the 2016 U.S. presidential election is b.s.
Read MoreJutra, Claude
The Quebecois director becomes the “trending” figure of a news cycle.
Read MoreMother Canada
If we weren’t such devoted and devout followers of Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper and his beloved Conservative government, we might have to admit that not only is he depressingly anti-democratic, and a fetishist or fascist about terror and crime, but a dolt without a drop of cultural taste. His aesthetic appreciation seldom rises above the…
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