Features

Beer: the (legal) treat to beat

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Sheldon Birnie
Ok, ok, I know: Candy is awesome, dentists be damned. However, a time comes in every kid’s life when they are “too old” to go trick or treating, and who wants to pay good...
Comment

Break it to my Grandma

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Sheldon Birnie
On June 17, 2009, Bill C-32 quietly passed through the House of Commons, amending the Tobacco Act “to provide additional protection to youth from tobacco marketing.” This followed Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s 2008 election...
Arts & Culture

CD Review : Todd Snider “The Excitement Plan”

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Sheldon Birnie
Todd Snider delivers another dish of country fried good times on his eighth full-length studio album, The Excitement Plan. Fans of Snider’s will find the “barefoot troubadour” in fine form, producing 12 top-notch tunes...
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Idiot or liar?

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Sheldon Birnie
Our prime minister, the Right Honourable Stephen Harper, addressed the leaders of the 20 richest nations on earth in Pittsburg on September 25. Reuters reported that Steve boasted to the G20 that our great...
Editorial

Why are you here?

By
Sheldon Birnie
“If you don’t love it, leave it.” — Merle Haggard I was riding the 60 to the university the other day, and I had the misfortune of being stuck within earshot of two stylishly appareled...
Arts & Culture

Booze cruisin’ to the bottom

By
Sheldon Birnie
Dan Fante’s new novel, 86’d, is a rip-roaring novel about a forty-two year old alcoholic, pill-popping loser at life on his last legs. The story is humourous, if you like laughing at people who...
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The aligning of dead ducks

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Sheldon Birnie
Tar-sands major player Syncrude plead “not guilty” in court last week to two charges laid after 1,600 migratory birds, mostly ducks, died horrible deaths in toxic tailing ponds in northern Alberta. The birds touched...
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