Poets do not appear to be writing as many small lyric poems in Canada as they once did, probably out of a misguided notion that ...

Edgar Morin, the co-director of Chronique d’un été once said, ““Talking of the essay film, I would rather refer to the attitude of he ...

It’s been a bit of a strange year for me. Over the past ten or twelve months, I feel as if some certainties in ...

I spend a lot of time on the TTC and I love it. It's not a perfect system (I'm looking at you, big ...

The IFOA is winding down and my personal contribution has been over for about 24 hours now. I’ve met fun people, eaten some good ...

So say 54% of Britons, apparently. Well, 54% of the almost 1000 people polled. It might come as a surprise to regular readers of this ...

One of the strangest exponents of my IFOA experience this month has been the window into the business world of the festival’s handful of ...

Despite a handful of nods of international films festivals, Paul Fox’s The Dark Hours is better known for a more dubious honour. It was ...

The basement of a shopping mall is the last place you’d expect to find the stirrings of a revolution, but that’s exactly what ...

I’ve written before on the negative environmental effects of the cashmere industry, but I’d like to write on the subject in greater detail ...

On October 20, I attended George W. Bush’s talk in Edmonton, courtesy of Chris LaBossiere. Bush was speaking at an event titled “A Conversation ...

 What happens when the biggest soccer event of the year rolls into South Africa? Well, apparently a whole bunch of people are going to get ...

There’s a neat little horror film that is slowly unrolling across North American theatres which, thanks to online buzz such as this, is angling ...

  Given that I was a pretty big fan of both The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield, and taking into account my reaction upon seeing Paranormal ...

As a product, I don’t feel I can judge Google Wave accurately yet.  As a (soft) launch, I feel very comfortable labeling it a ...

Although it’s hardly the most popular new show of the Fall television season, few have been the water-cooler sensation amongst 20-somethings as Fox’s ...

Last month, when Canadian children started school, various health officials underlined the importance of proper hygiene in the classroom. These tips and precautions were distributed ...

The backlash against too-thin models is spreading. German glossy Brigitte will no longer be featuring models in its pages as of 2010, opting instead to ...

The fair. The Fall fair. Always Thanksgiving weekend, always a big deal in this town, multiple askings from patients Are you going? and my wide ...

Toronto celebrates its 175th birthday this year, and as a means of celebrating the city’s demisemiseptcentennial, the TIFF Cinematheque (formerly Cinematheque Ontario) is playing ...