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How quaint! Too bad he’s spying on you.
I’m no fan of the RCMP, one of our glorious national symbols. They had a historical role in abducting indigenous children from their families so that they could be tortured, brainwashed, and frequently killed in residential schools. More recently, they’ve been responsible for an out-of-control taser epidemic that […]

After having spent my adult life variously not being a mom, being a married mom, being a single mom, being a mom who stayed at home and being a mom who worked outside the home, I have come to the conclusion that if you are a fertile woman of childbearing years, no matter what you’re […]

“Geronimo,” or “Something people say when they jump out of airplanes.”
It’s funny because I think if I wasn’t actually of Native American ancestry, I’d write more about them–as it stands, though, I suppose I feel like there is much less excuse for my lack of real in-depth knowledge about the history and culture–I’ve always had […]

I don’t like bananas, but even if I did, I wouldn’t eat them. United Fruit, the reason that we have the bananas that we have today, is basically the template for ruthless, evil corporations, pursuing unimaginable profits as the cost of human rights and the environment.
Within the next few decades, short of a scientific miracle, […]

Last week, I finished watching “The Business of Being Born“. Ricki Lake did this documentary to highlight the differences in treatment she had with her two children. One was done at the hospital, and ended up as a Cesarean. One was at home, with a midwife, and it was videotaped.
Interspaced […]

Tom Hanks. Julia Roberts. I figure those two would do just about any film as long as it paid well enough and gave them the contractual minimum of 3 Oscar moments*.
Aaron Sorkin. Mike Nichols. Them? Not so much. …Okay, maybe Nichols at this point, what with his […]

Via Echidine & Pam, another undergrad guy lets us know what boys want, and that’s a good thing because most of us would never have guessed that the boys want us to set things up so that they may have more opportunities to act on their own Elizabeth & Mr. Darcy fantasies. Turns out, […]

The latest issue of This Magazine has a fantastic article on Canada’s most influential rebellions. From a list of 89, This talks about four in detail: Oka (1990), the Abortion Caravan (1970), the Ford Strike (1945), and the Fraser Canyon War (1858).
Canadian history, as taught in high schools, is intentionally dry, written with the apparent […]

How exciting! The CIA has released 700 pages of “responses from CIA employees to a 1973 directive from Director of Central Intelligence James Schlesinger asking them to report activities they thought might be inconsistent with the Agency’s charter.” Thanks to the FOIA Electronic Reading Room, you can view the declassified documents from the comfort of […]

I (heart) me some birth control pill. I really do. I have to admit, I kind of fell for the scare stories about it and avoided it for a long time. I always had an excuse: I don’t see my boyfriend often enough to bother taking a pill every day, I don’t […]

Pretty tough talk for a guy who doesn’t go to church:
President Bush said yesterday that he senses a “Third Awakening” of religious devotion in the United States that has coincided with the nation’s struggle with international terrorists, a war that he depicted as “a confrontation between good and evil.”
Bush told a group of conservative journalists […]

This morning I ran some hardcore TS Eliot smack at the NYT for “balancing” its coverage of the many failings of the new ABC 9/11 miniseries with empty retorts from the network and puff commentary on its cast.
Turns out the farcical “historic broadcast” they claim to be based primarily on the 9/11 commission report was […]