Tuesday, November 25, 2014

Margaret Wente barks up the wrong tree (Part 56)

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I may as well share the letter I fired off to the Globe and Mail this morning (actually printed the next day): I can feel my blood pres...
Sunday, November 23, 2014

This (probably) changes everything

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I'd like to share a few other random snippets from Naomi Klein's thought-provoking new book "This Changes Everything" , al...
Friday, November 21, 2014

Distracted cinema audiences

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Volkswagen recently brought out a ground-breaking new road safety advertising campaign in Hong Kong. Cinema patrons received a "locati...
Tuesday, November 18, 2014

The right, the left, and global warming

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While reading through Naomi Klein's new book "This Changes Everything" , I came across some rather interesting statistics on t...
Friday, November 14, 2014

When did processes become pross-ess-eez?

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When did it become acceptable to pronounce the word processes as PROSS-ESS-EEZ ? One hears it all the time nowadays, even from (in fact, es...
Wednesday, November 12, 2014

A small victory

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Barack Obama, despite set-backs in the recent mid-term elections which saw the Republicans regain control of the US Senate , keeps gamely pl...
Thursday, November 06, 2014

How are the mighty fallen

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When popular CBC radio host Jian Ghomeshi was first reported as having been summarily dismissed on allegations of sexual abuse and harassme...
Wednesday, November 05, 2014

Kitten Clone

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Douglas Coupland's latest book, Kitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent , is up to his usual high standard, and replete with memorable phras...