TORONTO - Trading was briefly halted for shares of North Pole Industries (NPI: TSX) on the TSX Friday after a disasterous bankruptcy filing sparked a run on selling.  When the dust settled, NPI shares were down nearly 90% since their highs in the early 2000's.

Citing recent massive losses, NPI C… Read full post »

 
Satan sheepishly clarifies his involvement with Cheney: "I was just an observer."

In a second rare press conference in less than a week, Satan today came forward to clarify his previous statements regarding the Forward to Dick Cheney's recent book.  In a statement that was wide… Read full post »

 There are few ways to represent complex territory better than a well-made map.  While we usually associate maps with physical terrain like our town, our province, or our country, maps can be even more useful for conceptualizing abstract terrain.  This map is an excellent examp… Read full post »

The state of journalism in the world today is certainly questionable.  While much of the mainstream media seem content to be court stenographers for the powerful elite classes, every once in awhile, some journalist manages to produce a work of such genius that it needs to be highlighted.

Such is… Read full post »

The current incarnation of The Chuckling Priestman - Jokers Comedy Club, Old Hollywood, SL.  Photo: Elron Priestman

Ever wanted to go out somewhere without leaving your house?  Second Life gives you that chance.  If you are looking for live music, but don't want to dri… Read full post »

Stock photo of bison.  Photo: The Globe and Mail

The Running of the Bulls in Pamploma, Spain is an annual event where locals and tourists alike run through the streets of the city with bulls released for the purpose.  It's an annual spectacle where several people are gored… Read full post »

New rape awareness add from http://bitterbuffalo.tumblr.com/post/910431591/whats-this-an-anti-rape-campaign-that-focuses-on

It's a great idea, and long overdue frankly.  There is only one cause of rape ... rapists who are unable or unwilling to control themselves.  Rape is never… Read full post »

There are problems afoot on Open Salon.  Today wasn't the first time I've noticed it, but it was definitely the worst example so far.

I'm always interested in new comments to my posts, so when I woke up to email notifications of comments, I was initially thrilled.  However, it did… Read full post »

At one time in my life, I was the newspaper industry's perfect customer.  20 years ago, on any given day, I'd purchased 2 newspapers myself, and often read a 3rd or 4th paper that I found at a restaurant or on a bus.  In 1990, the newspaper was the only place to get… Read full post »

Open Salon is a flood of posts today about fathers who found redemption in their children's eyes, about forgiveness and loss, about special Father's Day memories. My dad was never abusive, never mean ... he has nothing for which to seek redemption, or desire forgiveness, from his children. He… Read full post »

Sasha Roiz as Sam Adama from Caprica.  Photo from the Battlestar Wiki

I've noticed a trend recently in television which seems remarkable to me.  It's a small trend, and one that's been developing for several years, but in recent years it's become more pronounced.

It's been a lon… Read full post »

Tracy Clark-Flory has a fascinating discussion at Broadsheet on the MotherSite today on the familiar there of the "destructiveness of pornography" in today's world.  Clark-Flory discusses an article by "Anonymous" in the National Review Online which blames the… Read full post »

Canadian PM Stephen Harper with Governor General Michaëlle Jean at the Throne Speech opening Parliament. (Photo: CBC.ca)

In what seems to have become an annual tradition in Canadian politics, Members of Parliament returned to work this week after the government prorogued Parliament for t… Read full post »

Calgary Bishop Fred Henry.  Photo: CBC.ca

Catholic Bishop for Calgary, Bishop Fred Henry, recently announced some extreme precautions to combat the H1N1 threat in Calgary area parishes.  In addition to suspending the age-old practice of taking communion on the tongue, Bishop Henry su… Read full post »

Alberta is perhaps the most unique case in Canada, a province that literally has been a one party democracy for most of it's existence.  Sure, other parties always run candidates, but the incumbent party wins an inordinate amount of time, and forms majorities an inordinate amount of time… Read full post »

As many of you know, one of the things I do when not writing here is stand-up comedy.  Sirius Satellite Radio, in conjunction with Canada's top comic Russell Peters, is sponsoring a contest to find a new opener for Russell.  Among other things, the winner will get to open a show… Read full post »

The September 2009 cover fo Gourmet.  Photo Credit: Gourmet.  Story Credit: Guardian.co.uk

With the recent demise of 4 big name titles from the Conde Nast magazine line, and recent closures of newspapers across north America, there is much debate about the magazine and newspaper in… Read full post »

Modern politics and music have a lot of connections.  Bill Clinton famously played his saxophone on the Arsenio Hall Show in the 90's.  Bob Rae… Read full post »

Jim Balsillie - Rejected!!!  Photo: Cbc.ca

The bankrupt hockey team in the middle of the desert still has no owners.  Renegade business man Jim Balsillie, he of Blackberry billions, is completely and officially out of the running after his bid was rejected, with prejudice.  Tha… Read full post »

Chief Iranian Nuclear Negotiater (and obssessed Paul McCartnery player) Saeed Jalili.  Photo: Hossein Fatemi, Fars News Agency

In a shocking turn, the multi-party talks in Geneva with Iran, the US, Germany, France, and others, Saeed Jalili, Iran's chief nuclear negotiator, softened his… Read full post »

This is a wonderful little tribute to two of the men who have brought science into the mainstream in the past few decades.  Practically all footage and sound samples come from Carl Sagan's Cosmos series, and Stephen Hawking's Universe series.  Set to a wonderfully "hip-hop"… Read full post »

Winston Blackmore celebrates a legal victory in Bountiful BC. Photo: CBC.ca

Bountiful, British Columbia is a small town in interior BC that's been in the Canadian news recently.  Populated by a group of FLDS fundamentalists, the Attorney General of BC has been contemplating charges of po… Read full post »

Iranian Prime Minster Ahmadinejad speaking at the UN.   Photo: The Telegraph.co.uk

You might think that members of the G20 have enough on their plates with global economic crash.  However, on the first day of the G20 summit, leaders found something else to talk about ... Iran.… Read full post »

The UN Vs. Tim Horton's ... no contest in Canada.  Photo: The National Post

Homer Simpson would be proud.  On a day when many world leaders were showing up to the UN in New York with the express intent of walking out on the speech of Iran's Ahmadinejad, the Canadian… Read full post »

Convicted fraudster Bernie Madoff.  Photo: Woopidoo Biographies

When the Madoff scheme first came to light, followed by other, smaller fraud schemes, a new meme started appearing in the mainstream press regarding the economic meltdown.  Roy Clancy displays this meme very well in hi… Read full post »