Meeting my future wife
Kate was in town from the United Kingdom, paying a visit to some old friends after a couple of weeks of travel. It was a Wednesday night in June; the night before, she’d caught the midnight flight out of Peru, where she’d been hiking and sightseeing on her own. She’d broken up with her boyfriend, […]
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“Harper government to spend $6.5-million to promote tax-cutting record”
The headline above is courtesy of Thursday’s edition of the Globe and Mail. By the way, that’s $6.5 million in public funds, not Conservative party expenses. A Canada Revenue Agency spokesperson said that the purpose of the campaign is to ensure Canadians take full advantage of this year’s available tax measures. But Kevin Gaudet, president […]
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Link of the Day: Hell Tetris
Somebody out there actually took the time to turn this, an old xkcd strip, into a genuine video game. It’s hilariously frustrating. Give it a few tries, and then throw your computer away in a fit of shameful disgust.
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Link of the Day: Coffee Party
The Coffee Party is “an organically growing, non-partisan movement brewed up by Democracy Watch,” which is itself a rather noble project. “If Canadians spent as much time writing politicians about their concerns as they spend lining up to buy coffee, we would have the good, democratic governments and responsible big businesses we want. Politicians get […]
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Link of the Day: The Don Valley Movie Club
The Don Valley Movie Club is essentially my friend Simon’s new blog, although he prefers to describe it as the “weird and often incoherent ramblings of a screenwriter who originally just needed a place to post a story about making gravy from hot dogs.” You can read that story here, by the way. Will it […]
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Fine, the latest podcast delay was totally my bad
Yes, as I mentioned, I’m currently getting over a cold. And yes, as a result, I dropped the ball on my end of the new podcast series that Babylon Telecom was supposed to launch on Wednesday. But I still think it was pretty cold of them to call me out on it. No offense, but […]
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Catch Nick Flanagan tonight at the Silver Dollar
Remember Nick Flanagan, whose new album I reviewed for Chart just a couple of weeks ago? Remember how I recommended seeing him live? Well, you can do so tonight at the Silver Dollar in Toronto, where he’ll be hosting a record release party featuring special guests. If you’ve got eight bucks and you’re free tonight, […]
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It’s Friday, so here’s the video for “Institutionalized” by Suicidal Tendencies
Here’s a great song with a great video and a surprisingly positive message. It’s exactly the sort of thing that a lot of kids need to hear at one point or another, but it doesn’t preach or take itself too seriously. Singer Mike Muir in particular obviously had a lot of fun with it. And […]
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Link of the Day: The Sketchersons Video Gallery
I didn’t do one of these yesterday, let alone much of anything else, because I was sick as a dog. Today, I’d like to jump back into it with a link to the updated video gallery that the Sketchersons have just added to their website. They’ve just added a whole bunch of new content – […]
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My wife sent a letter to Tony Clement about the CRTC bandwidth ruling
“Dear Minister,” Kate wrote earlier today. “I just wanted to take a moment to thank you for the review of the CRTC ruling on bandwidth caps. I think the CRTC decision takes Canada in a very dangerous, and anti-competitive direction, so I was very happy to hear you had called for a review, and reiterated […]
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