Consider
Rants of a Grumpy Old Man: Who Let the DOGE(s) OUT?
Let the games begin as the US gets it DOGE-style. [read more]
america
Consider
Rants of a Grumpy Old Man: Oh, oh Canada!
Now that we are in the post-coital bliss of Trump’s tariff reprieve, we have to ask ourselves: “Was it good for you?” And the answer for Canadians is a resounding “YES”. Not because the Dictator [read more]
Consider
Rants of a Grumpy Old Man: Pity the Nation
The great San Fransisco Beat poet, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, wrote in a poem of the same name: “Pity the nation whose leaders are liars Whose sages are silenced And whose bigots haunt the airwaves.” How true [read more]
Interview
Interview: Jon Bennett Gets A Green Card
Interview with global storytelling sensation Jon Bennett about his latest show Ameri-Can’t’s origins. [read more]
See
Review: Civil War
Alex Garland’s Civil War leaves a lasting impact [read more]
Review
Documentary Review: The Corporate Coup d’État
The new documentary The Corporate Coup d’État explores the current state of American politics by shining a revealing spotlight on modern corporatism. An ideology rooted in fascism, modern corporatism involves the government being controlled not [read more]
Review
Before Stonewall Review: No Going Back
The documentary Before Stonewall was originally released in 1984. Now, on the 50th anniversary of the historic Stonewall riots, the newly restored film is being re-released. Directed by Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg, this award winning [read more]
Do
Interview with Cristela Alonzo
Comedian talks about getting started in the biz. [read more]
See
Jim Carrey Expresses Outrage Through Drawing
Phi Centre features cartoons about US and world politics by beloved comic [read more]
Consider
MONTREAL NOW: Being a Man in #MeToo Times
The testimony of Dr. Christine Blasey Ford before some rather toxic men of power prompts this bonus reflection by Zsolt. [read more]
Review
The Leisure Seeker: Miles of Melancholy
Helen Mirren and Donald Sutherland star in this road trip film that falls a little short despite the two stars. [read more]
Book of the Month Club
Book of the Month Club: English-Speaking Justice by George Grant
While the term “Red Tory” might be lost in the political spectrum these days, George Grant was the classic definition of one: a conservative who espoused certain programmes that would traditionally be associated with his [read more]
Festivals
HUMP! Film Festival Returns
This is the one porn film festival that everyone should see (over 18, of course). [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1818: An Uneasy Border & Other Quebec Curios
Finding the line of division between the United States and Canada wasn’t that simple. Learn how much of the Canadian border was created in 1818! [read more]
Uncategorized
1814: The Treaty of Ghent & Other Quebec Curios
In August of 1814, the United States and Britain’s conception of war with each other was starting to wane. At least Britain’s did. With climbing debts and their main objective, that is to say, Napoleon, [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1814: Revenge of the British on the White House & Other Quebec Curios
While many British forces were fighting for the King and their Empire during the Napoleonic Wars, Britain did have an important force not only in leadership but also in the number of British army forces [read more]
Review
There Goes the Neighbourhood : Clybourne Park
1950s racism is alive and well. [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1813: Crysler’s Farm & Other Quebec Curios
Around the same time when Laura Secord aided the Niagara region of Upper Canada from falling into American hands, De Salaberry’s Voltigeurs were fending off the Americans from the western shores of the Saint Lawrence [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1812: Lower Canada’s Army & Other Quebec Curios
Some of the best during the War of 1812 didn’t come from Britain at all. The Canadian Voltigeurs, a light infantry of about 6000 strong, were purely Lower Canadian. The idea from the Governor General [read more]
& Other Quebec Curios
1812: America Keeps Trying to Invade Canada & Other Quebec Curios
One of the first attacks of the War of 1812 occurred in present-day Ontario, in a place named Sandwich (out of all possible names to name a town). However, the Americans, at war with Britain, [read more]