Opinion

Are you Charlie Hebdo? Are you Charlie Hebdo? And what about you? Are you Charlie too? What about your Wednesday morning monologist? Am I Charlie? There’s been a lot of sanctimonious shite shed about what we in the pampered-puss West consider sacred “freedoms.” Freedom of speech, freedom of the Press: the words roll off the...

Normally if my significant other were to casually suggest a Sunday morning dumpster dive I would, at the very least, bat an eyelash. Maybe I would offer up some concern that he was just really desperate for pizza and the craving would subside or maybe I would ask, semi-offended, if the hide-a-bed wasn’t to his...

Sales of cars in China grew from around 2 million in 2000 to over 20 million in 2013. The reason is simple: people hate busses, even Chinese people, for whom the bus has long been a faithful conveyor for themselves, their families, their chickens, their pigs. As soon as they get their hands on a...

Despite the fact that ours is a consumption-driven society madly obsessed with the peccadilloes of our gorgeous pantheon of celebrities, I propose that we talk a bit about politics. That’s right, politics. Canadian politics. “Show business for ugly people,” some call it. And they may be right. After all, scan the benches of our House...

It was 1998. I had just finished being the last kid ski-dooed down Sun Peaks Mountain after attempting a black diamond run on my Grade Six ski trip and I was in trouble.

For those of us who have already seen too many of them, the coming of another year can stir little enthusiasm. Every year I am invited to a New Year’s Eve party which turns into little more than an opportunity to watch people, old enough to behave better, drink themselves into an over-exuberance which involves...

Your scribe is happy to bid adieu to 2014. It’s been an interesting year, to say the least; but it is with ever hopeful eyes that I look forward to 2015 as the year in which we say “so long, farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, goodbye” to the calumnies and deceits of the current government. There’s an...