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A Modest Opinion – By George, it’s a baby! 22 Aug 2013 | 04:10 pm
By Nathaniel Moher I, like most of you, was surprised to learn that we have ended up living in a dystopian future where there hasn’t been a baby born in years. A time when humankind fears that this m...
Elmore Leonard’s tasty dialogue 22 Aug 2013 | 03:53 pm
By Mark Leiren-Young So I meet Elmore Leonard on one of the only junkets I’ve ever covered for the Georgia Straight. I’m with a group of just over a half-dozen journalists at a studio in LA and we’ve...
A Modest Opinion – Russia to America: Spy on this! 5 Aug 2013 | 06:34 pm
By Nathaniel Moher As most of you are now aware (unless of course, you don’t have the internet, in which case, you have nothing to worry about anyway), the United States government is spying on anyon...
How to evade the British and Yank snoops 5 Aug 2013 | 10:23 am
By John Klein (aka Saskboy) There’s no way to escape the overseeing PRISM eye of the US electronics intelligence service the NSA, right? Not entirely true. If you use American or British nodes to rou...
Fair weather Cons, foul weather Libs 21 Jul 2013 | 04:47 am
By [email protected] Was the Lac Megantic disaster caused by too much government regulation? Probably not, but I made you look, no? I can’t resist an “I told you so” moment on recent coverage of...
A Modest Opinion – Nathaniel Moher’s Guide to Fixing the World, Pt. 6 20 Jul 2013 | 03:54 pm
By Nathaniel Moher Over the last two years, I have presented at least 19 completely achievable and 100 per cent effective ideas for fixing the state of the world today (including: free drugs for ever...
Don’t Be Those Jerks 20 Jul 2013 | 03:37 pm
By Rachelle Stein-Wotten This week in rape news: Some fine men in Edmonton decided to fight back against all those terrible women who lie about being raped, and take back the innocence and purity of ...
Microsoft: Team player 16 Jul 2013 | 07:00 pm
By Alison@Creekside Feel free to drop by this Microsoft ad and give it a thumbs down. “At Microsoft, your privacy is our priority.” Indeed. About that … Guardian: How Microsoft handed the NSA acce...
Cory Monteith: The boy next door 16 Jul 2013 | 05:46 pm
By Mark Leiren-Young The only time I saw Cory Monteith in person was at a Canucks Game. He and his on-screen and off-screen love interest Lea Michele were in their Canucks jerseys at GM Place cheerin...
Calgary’s artists rebuild 8 Jul 2013 | 05:32 pm
By Mark Leiren-Young As I was driving away from Calgary it started to rain. I was on my “C Canada tour,” promoting my new book in Cochrane, Calgary, and Cranbrook. The Calgary event was a reading at...
