This week: Newsmakers
The fatheads who resent the war on fat, plus Quebec announces a new anti-corruption unit
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Leonard Cohen
This Week: Good news/ Bad news
Plus a week in the life of Gordon Campbell
The keys to Rideau
The Mark asks various thinkers for viceregal nominations and ends up with a shortlist that includes Preston Manning, Wayne...
Leonard Cohen for Governor General
The Facebook campaign
The Show of Shows
The opening ceremonies had something few Canadian cultural events display: rhythm. A pulse. Plus an army of demonic fiddlers and a giant Stay-Puft Marshmallow Bear.
Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah" gets no rest
Yet another version of Leonard Cohen’s "Hallelujah," this one sung by Matt Morris and Justin Timberlake on the U.S. Hope for Haiti...
Sweating to the Oldies
Moses Znaimer knows what Boomer sex sounds like
The Princess and the President, Cohen’s collapse, and Senator McMahon?
Newsmakers of the week
’Whispering Pines: The Northern Roots of American Music from Hank Snow to The Band,’ by Jason Schneider
One of the few Canadian music books that goes back as far as Hank Snow and Wilf Carter—and sheds new light on some of the more canonized mouldy oldies
What’s with that song ‘Hallelujah’?
Leonard Cohen’s masterpiece has become the closest thing pop music has to a sacred text