Iceberg Alley Gives Cold Shoulder to Women Artists
I took one read through the event roster, and immediately had to re-read the listings. My first thought: Where my girls at?
Category Archives: Editorials / Opinion
Super Nova: Maritime Launch Services Selects Canso for Launchpad
In an era in which the governing bodies of Atlantic Canada are trying to resurrect long dead industries, we can sleep soundly knowing that we have not regressed from the space age.
Neck & Neck: Part 4 – Harper’s Revival and the Dismantling of the Left
At the end of this first month, Harper looked not only incompetent and untrustworthy, but even distasteful as a choice for Prime Minister; a poor manager for Canada, not only in terms of his track record but also due to the tarnishing effect he’s had on Canada’s international brand too.
With Crosby’s appointment, the beginning of September there represent an expected shift into the second phase of the election, in which the big questions of domestic worthiness gave way to issues of national identity.
Neck & Neck: Part 3 – ABC’s of Newfoundland and Labrador
For Newfoundlanders, it was politics as usual on Sunday, September 20th. Thomas Mulcair and Justin Trudeau rolled into town for another campaign pitstop and the dozing electorate, used to watching politics play out on T.V., were shaken awake for just a brief brush with federal campaign politics.
Neck & Neck: Part 2 – The Digital Election
Thursday’s Globe & Mail debate marked only the second time that a national political leaders’ debate was targeted primarily to online viewers. The elderly and digitally illiterate are finally relegated to CPAC where they belong.
Neck & Neck: Part 1 – Trading Shots
“Erase from your minds, fellow Canadians, the past four weeks. They haven’t mattered at all.” That’s what the pundits say, at least. To them, I suppose, the month of August has merely been some sort of sadistic theatrical preamble, where dueling leftists, corrupt senators, dead refugees, and urinating handymen all vie for our attention like pathetic sideshows at some orgiastic circus.
If They Can Make it in Alberta…
Last Tuesday, pseudo-Trotskyites like myself got hammered the country over to celebrate the fall of Canada’s longest lived conservative dynasty. Rachel Notley’s NDP routed the governing PCs, and Albertans decided to change their governing party for the first time in 44 years.
But observers across the country have started making some hasty predictions about what this swing implies for Federal and other provincial races.
The Ambiguous Case of Don Dunphy
J.H. Burns outlines the shooting of Don Dunphy at the hands of Premier Paul Davis’ security outfit that took Newfoundland & Labrador by force two weeks ago, and tries to make some sense out of the mess of the information given to the public.
Females in Fests: How St. John’s Spring Line-ups Stack Up
Kerri Claire analyzes female representation, both working and playing, at this spring’s music festivals in St. John’s. She examines the significance of the numbers and their connection to the bigger industry picture.