Sunday, October 27, 2019

The fantastical makeup creations of Mimi Choi

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I recently came across a Vancouver-based makeup artist called Mimi Choi. Here is a sample of her three-dimensional makeup work (taken from a...
Friday, October 25, 2019

Who are the Kurds, and why does everyone seem to hate them?

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Since Donald Trump summarily pulled American forces out of Syria, we are seeing more and more pictures of downtrodden Kurdish families trekk...
Thursday, October 24, 2019

UN plans to reverse desertification to help with climate change

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In the aftermath of a UN conference on desertification, 196 countries have signed on to a scheme to reverse desertification with a view to s...
Wednesday, October 23, 2019

Raptors' championshio rings - too many diamonds, too little class

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All of Toronto, and most of the rest of Canada, was overjoyed when the Toronto Raptors won the NBA basketball championship back in June. We ...
Saturday, October 19, 2019

Why does the Bloc Québécois even exist?

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The Bloc Québécois has always been an anomaly in Canadian politics. But, in the current federal election, the indications are that they are ...
Friday, October 18, 2019

Regional politics even inserts itself into the latest kids' blockbuster movie

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Politics manages to worm its way into pretty much everything. The latest casualty is the Universal Pictures animation Abominable , which is ...

What the Unknown Pleasures album cover actually shows

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Somehow - inexplicably - it has been 40 years since the release of Joy Division's first album Unknown Pleasures . I was a callow univers...
Thursday, October 17, 2019

A dying Canadian teen's plea to use your vote

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I know it's been shared and re-tweeted countless times and, as usual I am late to the party, but who am I to ignore this. I refer to the...