Playoff battles can lead to Intellectual Property battles, apparently. In the heat of the playoff series between the Ottawa Senators and the Montreal Canadiens, Montreal’s Brandon Prust angrily commented, “We don’t really care what that bug-eyed fat walrus has to… Continue Reading
Yesterday, Will wrote a thoughtful piece on the nature of immigration, foreign workers and the U.S. visa system. In this post, Will makes the observation: Now, with my last two paragraphs, here is where some people respond, “but why should… Continue Reading
I really never intended to write this much about hockey, but something quite distasteful is going down between the fans of the Toronto Maple Leafs and the fans of the Boston Bruins. It’s more than just the usual taunts. In… Continue Reading
The Ottawa Senators took it to the Montreal Canadiens in last night’s playoff game, eventually winning 6-1. It had been close for much of the game, but things quickly got away from the Habs in the third period. By the… Continue Reading
Poet Zoe Whittall has created a found poem “culled and adapted from Canadian Notes & Queries, The Globe & Mail, The National Post, The New York Times, The Guardian”: Much of the novel seems held together with a kind of… Continue Reading
Always keeping up with the hot topics of thirty years ago, Canadian icon/embarrassment Don Cherry made news this week when he declared that a men’s locker room was no place for female reporters. You might think that these journalists are… Continue Reading
For some reason, I had “Employee of the Month” by the Newfoundland band Fur Packed Action stuck in my head today. It is the best (and only) song about working in a mall food court that I have ever heard:… Continue Reading
In December, the Supreme Court of Canada was asked to determine if women were allowed to wear a niqab or other face coverings while testifying in court. The case involved a Muslim woman who was victim of a rape. The defendants demanded… Continue Reading