Mike Smith will no doubt groan because he thinks I’m obsessed with health care policy, but I actually received this email this morning. (Admittedly, from someone who wanted to know how true it was.) And the bit about family doctors is probably more true than the debunker gives credit for – twenty percent of the […]

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I have taken, in my time, a lot of grief for unapologetically loving Posse. I am not sure as to why. It certainly can’t be because the movie isn’t entertaining. With a wealth of excellent performances from Mario Van Peebles, Big Daddy Kane, Tiny Lister, Billy Zane (as the crazy evil white dude) and Stephen […]

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The smallest house in Toronto is up for sale. If you’ve got $179,000 handy, it could be yours! In all seriousness, one can joke about the size of it, but it’s roughly equivalent in size to a small condo, and you get a front yard and a back yard. It’s not even a starter home, […]

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Via several sources, one discovers that anonymous emails are circulating out of South Carolina accusing Barack Obama of being a secret undercover Muslim. Future email you may see in your inbox: Dear friend, my name is Dennis Kucinich and I am the Congress-individual for these United States of Cleveland. I have recently come into a […]

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Which means that this week’s edition of my TV column is up at Torontoist. This week: a very special savaging of Jon Dore.

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Making Money, the newest Discworld book by Terry Pratchett, is honestly a bit of a disappointment – one of the weaker Discworld books to come along in some time. Don’t get me wrong – it’s still a Discworld book by Terry Pratchett, and as such, automatically better than ninety-five percent of the books out there. […]

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MOVIE: Elizabeth: The Golden Age PLOT SUMMARY Finally, the story of the defeat of the Spanish Armada, put on film! Except much moreso I UNDERSTAND THIS IS A SEQUEL Well, duh MOVIE EQUALS Elizabeth times Braveheart DIRECTED BY Shehkar Kapur WHO LAST DIRECTED The Four Feathers WAS THAT ANY GOOD? It was pretty decent, actually […]

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Seriously, the last two days have been insane. In apology, I present “Northern Touch”, by the Rascalz, also featuring just about every major name in Canadian hip-hop at the time (2001ish). It is a fun song. It has mad beats. Do you not like mad beats? Of course you like mad beats. Because they are […]

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The fine individuals over at Pajiba! recently posted an excellent essay on Friday Night Lights with which I concur wholeheartedly. However, in the course of the essay, they spoiled the major plot twist of the second season premiere episode. Since I firmly believe that A) everybody should watch this fine program, and B) to fully […]

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Torontoist had me liveblog the Ontario general election last night, and it may be of interest to some of you. Or not.

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Brain Donors is one of those movies that I routinely inflict upon my friends. Unlike other overlooked movies I have previously mentioned, Brain Donors is not necessarily a movie everybody will love. Because Brain Donors can be explained in one simple sentence: it is a remake of a Marx Brothers movie with a young John […]

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From the comments, a while back: Now the question is whether we start a petition asking you publish Vampire Hitler Well, it’s not finished as such. Hence why I’m still working on it. However, I will confess that it contains the following things: – a race war between the incoming Aryan vampires and the city’s […]

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Getting away from legislative reform for a moment and just looking at the actual boring election, this poll is just amazing. Liberal support at 42 percent, with the Conservatives at 27 percent (and dropping). For those who don’t follow Ontario politics, which is a lot of you: you have to understand that going into this […]

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For those of you wanting a cold-as-ice pessimistic geopolitical and economic analysis of current U.S. economic policy – and I’m sure there’s ever so many of you! – I would direct you to this screed the Cunning Realist posted last week. Well worth reading. Also, somewhat depressing.

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…and another edition of my TV column at Torontoist.

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