This is an interesting twist in the CBC lockout. According to The Globe CBC staff are organizing an alternative service:  •  “On Tuesday at midday, around 150 CBC writers, producers and announcers from the broadcasters' TV, radio and web-based services, English and French, met in a room in …

It must be a blast around chez Doctorow when Cory gets takes last slice of bread or puts an empty milk carton back in the fridge. It is like listening to an early teen:  •  “It doesn't matter how strong or weak the DRM is on the copy that I choose not to buy -- all that matters is how much …

I feel that I am not doing something right as I do not care much about the CBC lockout either way. Coming on the heels of the boring NHL lockout and my indifference as to the appointment of the next Governor General as well as not a blip in my life when the Canadian Medical Association supports …

“Questioning Guru: What country has a tizzy crisis over the rumoured past of the nominee for a powerless office of little consequence?  •  Answering Student: I know, I know. The one Stompin' Tom sings about?  •  Questioning Guru: That's right, little hypothetical answering student: the one that …

I like the six to nine morning show on CBC Lockout Radio. Its announcers have bland voices, they play If I Had A Million Dollars at 7:21 am every day and no one is saying anything that makes me think in the slightest.  •  You know, for all the axe grinding that you see in blogs about the …

Here are some ideas to help the CBC TV get through the impending lockout:  •  Play reruns of This Hour Has 22 Minutes over and over even though the actual context of the news parody is entirely lost.Get your interim news reporters to only report from one point of view.Play lots of movies from the …

Here is The New York Time's report on the US executive branch's new take, enunciated yesterday in the Arar lawsuit, on what it is constitutionally to be human at a US border:  •  “"Would not such treatment of a detainee - in any context, criminal, civil, immigration or otherwise - violate both the …

...and has rightly embarrasses me in besting me. In the comments here he points out that the crime of sedition is still on the books at s. 59. My wallowing in treason, in the sections in the 40s, focusing on the act and conspiring rather than the mere speaking of words - it reminds me of the time …

I think this is a poor headline. I am not offended by it so much as disappointed by it as a proud holder of a twenty year old BA in English. Please compare and contrast in your comments as always.  •  The headline strikes me as historically inaccurate. The use of the atom bomb was not a …