Canada

Today is Remembrance Day. It’s sort of an awkward day, because it’s like a holiday, except solemn rather than celebratory. It’s weird to see stores open and people staying out late the night before and treating it like a weekend when it really is a day set aside to honour the dead and the battle-scarred. […]

Posted on 11 November 2010 and filed under articles, Canada, CBC

Rob For on CBC As It Happens, October 26, 2010map :: {skin:’orange’, animate:true, width:’200′, volume:0.4, autoplay:false, loop:false, showVolumeLevel:true, showTime:true, showRew:true, downloadable:false, downloadablesecurity:false, id3: false} Rob Ford on CBC’s As It Happens, October 26, 2010 I’m sort of fascinated by this whole Rob Ford thing, even though I’ve never even been to Toronto. In the Globe a […]

Posted on 28 October 2010 and filed under articles, Canada, politics

It wasn’t the Olympics that made Canadians find their pride. It was just that the internet and a new crop of independent musicians has created a generation of Canadians that aren’t aware their supposed to have an inferiority complex. Get used to it.

Posted on 1 July 2010 and filed under articles, Best Of, Canada, comments, main, music

The perspectives expressed in the blog are those of the author and the author alone, and do not reflect the views of anyone else. This morning on the show there was a discussion about Coca-Cola’s Aboriginal Art Bottle program. When I first started working on this, I wasn’t expecting much. After all, there’s been a […]

Posted on 18 January 2010 and filed under British Columbia, Canada, CBC, Indigenous

How do we demonstrate that open government works, that we want to be engaged, that we are intelligent enough to understand that if you make government more human you won’t be opening yourself up to criticism for your flaws but respect for your transparency?

Posted on 13 December 2009 and filed under articles, Best Of, Canada, comments, main, social media

As product placement goes, this is actually pretty clever: most Americans will have no idea it’s a real thing (or assume it’s just a real Canadian thing) and most Canadians will just be excited to see their national hangout on American network television. On an unrelated note, I have two meetings scheduled in Tim Horton’s […]

Posted on 22 October 2009 and filed under Canada, misc

  I’ve thought this should be a t-shirt, and apparently it is, so now I just have to find it.

Posted on 4 June 2009 and filed under Canada, comments, misc

Posted on 25 May 2009 and filed under Canada