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The Revolution Will Not Be Televised: Thoughts on Occupy Wall Street
For several weeks now, thousands have been protesting in New York under the banner “Occupy Wall Street.” Their goals or demands are not explicitly defined, but they claim to be the %99 rallying...
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Kill Bill: Harper’s nonsensical tough-on-crime C-10 Bill
(A Panopticon from Pennsylvania, I think) Recently, Statistics Canada revealed that Canada has reached a near-50-year low in murders. This past year continued a downward trend of gun- and gang-related...
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Say goodnight to the bad guy: The uncertain future of Julian Assange and...
About a year ago, in what seemed like a scene out of Sidney Lumet’s Network, Tom Flanagan appearing on CBC’s Power and Politics exclaimed, “I think [Julian] Assange should be assassinated…I wouldn’t...
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Consider Kony 2012: White guilt goes viral
Last week, hacked pictures of scantily clad Christina Hendricks and Olivia Munn went viral, yet my facebook feed was bombarded with Joseph Kony. Joan Holloway’s weapons of mass distraction were finally...
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“Liberate us from the Liberals”: A play in one act
“Liberate us from the Liberals” A play in one act A shallow light reveals four characters. The light brightens whenever a character speaks. To the far left is Lex the Neoliberal, an older, middle aged...
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Can I Talk My Shit Again? In Defense of Shock Humor
Can I Talk My Shit Again? In Defense of Shock Humor “for in laughter all evil is present, but sanctified and absolved through its own happiness” -Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spoke Zarathustra) For the...
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Mind the Gap: Winners and losers of the Olympics
Mind the Gap: Winners and losers of the Olympics Last week, the 2012 London Olympics drew to a close. All in all, the Games seemed to have been a success. There were plenty of heart warming narratives:...
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Lance Armstrong
The current doping scandal in cycling is a farce. ICU is standing on podiums denouncing Lance Armstrong with righteous indignation as if to say this is merely the behavior of an errant child. What...
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Who Will Survive In Amurika? The Election and the Zombie Apocalypse
Who Will Survive In Amurika? The Election and the Zombie Apocalypse (source) We’ve been shuffling towards the Zombie Apocalypse slowly but surely for quite some time. The recession won’t quit, people...
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Happiness Is a Warm Gun: Gun Control In the Land of the Free
The Sandy Hook Elementary shooting has kicked the gun control debate back into the mainstream. Since 1982, there have been 62 mass shooting in America, twenty-five of which occurred after 2006....
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Freedom of Religion? What about Freedom from Religion?
So, Harper has just created the Office of Religious Freedom. I’m still entirely clear what their mandate is, nor am I sure how it differs from other human rights mandates. You can read the government’s...
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A Picture Says a Thousand Words: Tom Flanagan, Libertarianism, and Child...
Tom Flanagan has finally put his foot far up enough his mouth to choke the life out of his career. Turns out it wasn’t suggesting assassinating Julian Assange or claiming European colonialism was...
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Inconvenient History: Argo, Zero Dark Thirty, and American mythologizing
Like many Canadians, I wasn’t overly fond of Argo‘s version of history. As Hollywood is wont to do, Ben Affleck played fast and loose with facts to create a silver screen friendly narrative. In the...
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#DarkNL2014: A Survivor’s Tale
This is a survivor’s tale. I survived #DarkNL2014. I, like countless others, had to endure the cold and the darkness, sometimes for as long as five hours. I did not, however, escape unchanged. I hope...
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Byline Update: Herizons
Hey everybody. Been awhile since I’ve updated this. Apologies. Here is an article I wrote about women in Canadian film. It was published in the fall 2014 issue of Herizons, a Canadian feminist...
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Sorry Not Sorry: Newfoundlanders and the Right to Take Offence
Last night, on Coach’s Corner, as part of the Kraft Hockeyville in St. John’s, Ron MacLean ate some seal. Don Cherry asked, jokingly, “What are you, a savage, a barbarian?” Newfoundlanders and First...
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Your Moment of Zen: A Tribute to Jon Stewart
Much to our great sadness, Jon Stewart has decided to leave the Daily Show. After sixteen years at the helm (hard to imagine anyone else besides Stewart there, but Craig Kilborn was its first host...
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Fear of a Meninist Planet: Why Men’s Rights Activists Aren’t Treated Like...
Nous ne somme pas Charlie. After the terrorist attacks in Paris, various politicians paid the usual lip service to “Western” ideals of free speech. Then, sans irony, draconian, anti-democratic...
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Perchance to Dream: Abandoning the middle-class fairy tale
Have you seen Straight Outta Compton? You should. It’s an excellent movie. One of the things that really grabbed me was Dr. Dre’s story. He starts out on his mom’s floor, surrounded by vinyl,...
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Targaryen Entitlement: A Case Study for Milennials
The word “entitlement” gets thrown around a lot these days. It seems like every week there’s another lazy, throw-away op-ed written by another boomer who either is up against a deadline or craves...
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