Technology, old and new.  •  To say I had a grand time is the under-estimation of the day. Being a former college radio guy there is nothing better than hanging around the NCPR production studio on the old sofa like the NPR groupie I am. Plus I saw the first decent sticking snow of the year and …

While taking a break from either unconsciousness or contemplation of my selection of remedies for this bug, I came across this odd geo-political dispute of the coolest sort. It reminded me of a train trip from Paris to Amsterdam during which I tactically left a copy of a book of poetry out only to …

It must be the cold remedies but I swear I never noticed these things before or put them together:  •  The BBC is running a show called The Trees That Made Britain. This is likely a good idea and could be transferred to Canada with a show that includes bits on the early use tar from spruce, the …

You know I have wondered about the whole "bullets" thing. They are not symbols of bullets. They are symbols of bullet holes. Which is often uncomforting. Yet just before Thanksgiving weekend - this is Canada, folks - there is a certain relaxing of that concern...even though we do not kill turkeys …

It doesn't seem so big brother-ish somehow when big brother is giving you a hard time to your face - or maybe the part in your hair - rather than telling you what you can't wear though the law:  •  “As the boy picks up the pylon to carry it off, a loud and authoritative voice booms from above …

Speaking of the question of whose government is it anyway, don't forget to follow events in Hungary via The Internationalist. Video, first person descriptions, pamphlets and manifestos. How many of you have published a manifesto in the last ten years anyway?

So we went to see Billy Bragg in Ottawa last night, eighteen years since the last time when I got the t-shirt and taught Bill suffleboard during a break in a sound check as I held the best table in the place all afternoon. I actually turned down free Sloan tickets a few days earlier as I learned …

I don't know why I woke up and asked myself what it was I liked to order at the long shut Cafe Wim on Sussex near the market in Ottawa in the mid-90s. I was awake the best part of an hour involuntarily trying to remember. There are enough references on the internet but I can't find a picture of …

I am sorry. I have been unkind to New Brunswick. My coverage here is far too thin. When people say it is the highway to Maine, I laugh a little. When CBC held a late '70s Canada Day broadcast from every one of Canada's nine provincial capitals...because someone in Toronto forgot New Bunswick, I …