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So 38 days later a record low number of Canadians have gathered to speak as one, in one voice, unified in a collective political belief. I have no idea what that belief is… perhaps that we don’t really like any of these guys so we’re pretty much okay with things the way they were… more […]

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Remember fellow Canucks – no matter your party of preference – simply by going to your local polls today you can accomplish many exciting goals: Show Sean Combs that we don’t actually need the threat of physical violence to excercise our democratic rights. Support the concept of policy and platform being important issues to discuss […]

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Noted media smart-guy and NYU journalisim professor Jay Rosen’s gotten a fair amount of play in the US political blogs lately by asking some really inventive questions about what the responsibilities of journalistic “fairness” are given the recent scenario where the GOP has tried to entirely discredit entire sectors of the media. In a follow-up […]

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A number of my officemates were unaware of the perennial classic piece of Americanna, “You and I and George”. Not only was this oversight shocking, but it occurred to me that, like many great works, it is even truer in this difficult American political climate than when it was first penned. Rolf was truly ahead […]

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While it was quite refreshing to see culture come up in the leaders debate there’s still an unsettling trend of framing the various issues in the context of “is cultural product important”? These are usually identifiable by such thrilling arguments such as: I don’t think taxpayer money should have been spent on (Artistic Thing Goes […]

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Overcompensating is one of those sites I could pretty much link daily. Jeffrey Rowland is not only one of my favourite webcartoonists – he is also too mean to die. However today’s instalment pretty much summarizes the entirety of the US political arena. It is like a fractal – every single element of it is […]

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I missed this during my travels – but according to Christopher Butcher at the Beguiling the original artwork for a Seth cover has been stolen from the offices of Toronto’s Taddle Creek Magazine. Look, I want original Seth art as much as the next guy (given statistical probability, probably more than the next guy) – […]

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You remember my previous post about letting kids dress up as comic characters? Kevin Church manages to express the same sentiment much more succinctly, proving why he is beaucoup, and I am merely moyenne. I’ve been in Regina this week for the 9th Annual Canadian Comedy Awards and Festival, and let me tell you this […]

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