Happy holidaysLaurie Hawn writes to inform the Afghanistan committee that Conservative members won’t be attending tomorrow’s meeting. It appears...
"We’re going to out-Klingon Klingon!"A strong late entry in the "significant word of 2009" sweepstakes would be the noun and verb "conlang". A conlang is any...
"Almost as lucky as Obama"Turns out the U.S. President’s Nobel prize wasn’t the only one to generate controversy this year . Nerd-grade coverage of the...
Definition challenge: The votingUPDATE : SeanStok wins! Take an e-bow, Sean. Thanks to all for your definitions and your votes: the Monday caption challenge...
What the ministers were toldThe head of the International Red Cross is reported to have met with Peter MacKay, Gordon O’Connor and Stockwell Day in the fall...
The labourer is worthy of his hireSome people think Bramwell Tovey’s protest against letting someone else pretend to conduct music he pre-recorded with the VSO is a...
The year in IgnatieffThe leader of the opposition evaluates his work in 2009 and his prospects for 2010
Pretty pleaseThe opposition requested a meeting of the special committee on Afghanistan for next Tuesday and that meeting is apparently now...
Good Cheer and Bad MusicTime to get some Christmas episodes up here, preferably with no connection to A Christmas Carol or It’s a Wonderful Life . So...
THE WIRE: Ambition and LimitationDavid Simon interviews always have something interesting in them, because the guy doesn’t talk like a Hollywood screenwriter...