It also Gets Better in Canada
Posted by Anupa in Canada, Politics, Pop Culture on 03. Nov, 2010 | 6 Comments
Openly gay Canadians like Rick Mercer, Mark Tewksbury, designers David Dixon and Joeffer Caoc as well as Toronto mayoral canadiate (and first openly gay member of the Ontario legislature) George Smitherman are just some of the many voices in this Canadian contribution to Dan Savage’s “It Gets Better” project. Along with all of the positive [...]
Canada owns YoYo’s best and brightest
Posted by Simon in Canada, Concerts on 15. Aug, 2010 | 0 Comments
There are a lot of subculture sports out there, and unlike skateboarding or surfing, not all of them gain mainstream acceptance. Just casually perusing your weekly television schedule, you often encounter events such as Timber Sports (Lumberjacks racing each other. It has an ESPN page!), or Fitness America contests (beauty pageants with pushups) or WNBA [...]
Canada, before Facebook
Posted by jessekg in Art, Canada on 09. Jul, 2010 | 0 Comments
“This image is striking (and also sad) because, while it was taken in 1966, it’s still current,” Cronenberg told the Post (parentheses mine) Toro Magazine, that once great magazine that went the way of online only and has since become and pretty good site, purchased some 24,000 photographs of Canada from the New York Times. [...]
EARTHQUAKE EH?!
Posted by Simon in Toronto on 23. Jun, 2010 | 6 Comments
WHERE WERE YOU AND WHAT WERE YOU DOING DURING THE QUAKE? Eating a late lunch in my street level kitchen today, I suddenly noticed my arms were feeling awful unstable leaning on my table. Almost like it was shaking. Lo and behold, I looked up to see if I was going crazy and I realized [...]
Why I drink more coffee now than any time during the year
Posted by Simon in Curiosities, Pop Culture on 05. Mar, 2010 | 10 Comments
You probably already know the answer: Roll Up The Rim To Win. I, like many other Canadians, have somehow allowed this annual food gambling tournament to turn into as much a part of our national pastiche as curling, hockey, skating on frozen rivers and drinking milk from bags. If you ever leave Canada to live [...]
