At this point, the Copenhagen climate talks are long over, and world leaders’ “agreement” to limit climate change to an increase of 2 degrees is little more than a non-legally binding piece of public...

Hello friends. I am here today to nominate a man of wealth and distinction for the position of chancellor of the University of Manitoba. I’ll break it to you gently: that man is Burton...

As I sit, composing these words, cannons rock the air around me, echoing off the buildings about the Manitoba Legislature in epic remembrance. I have just finished listening to Jian Ghomeshi interview Margaret Atwood...

“Opinions are like assholes — everyone has one, and it stinks.” — American proverb The sickly sweet scent of rotting roses greets my nose each morning, these days, as I step into the Hyde Park that...

Local fellow Grant Davidson’s album, Tired Limbs for Ashes, is a quiet affair, evoking a dusty late-summer afternoon spent reflecting on life’s highs and lows, likely on a front porch, enjoying a cigarette and...

Reading recent Musical Memories regarding “mosh-pit misadventures,” I was painfully reminded of a tale of shame and violence all my own. It was in late November, in the Okanagan. By the time the sun...

“Brown leafed vertigo where skeletal life is known — I remember Halloween. This day anything goes, dead bodies hang from poles — I remember Halloween.” — Glenn Danzig, “Halloween” Halloween today may seem — to some —...