Articles
What’s making the weather worse? Mayne Island, B.C. writer and naturalist Terry Glavin investigates.
A childhood educator has a hard look at Marshall McLuhan, finds some destructive contradictions in the ways we have interpreted his sometimes-erratic insights
Dear Old Europe: Canada had an election last month. Herewith, an explanation of the latest electoral doings in the New World. Immigration forms available at end of article.
Max Fawcett discusses how, if it plays its cards right, the NDP could win 50 seats in the next election.
The dooney’scafe.com awards are back after a one-year absense. This year, we’ve concentrated on the things that made us ashamed to remain human beings…
Brian Fawcett poses the most obvious question in Canada right now: Who’s going to be the next leader of the federal Liberals now that Paul Martin Jr. is toast. His pick might surprise you.
To mark poet George Bowering’s 70th birthday last week, a Festschrift anthology was published, 71(+) for GB, edited by Jean Baird, David McFadden and George Stanley, with contributions from more than 90 writers and artists. Here are two selections.
Everything you need to know in order to cast an intelligent, intelligible ballot.
West Coast writer Terry Glavin makes his first appearance in dooneyscafe.com, documenting a visit with a couple of the much-reviled American Minutemen, who have dedicated themselves to protecting U.S. borders in the face of the US government’s curiously selective improvements to border security after 9/11. The piece is reproduced from Glavin’s blog, which can be found, along with other extremely interesting pieces that are far beyond normal blogging quality, at http://transmontanus.blogspot.com/
Up in North Bay, our correspondant Wally Hourback offers a brief interrogation of the Gomery Inquiry and its report