In 1998, I was writing a weekly humour column that was self-syndicated in several newspapers in western Canada. For about two years I riffed on a mix of politics and pop culture and as someone who started reading Adbusters with the magazine’s debut, how could I not write about Buy Nothing Day or — as [...]
I’ve done a few stories about Occupy Wall Street architect Kalle Lasn over the years — most recently for The Tyee. Here’s an interview from 2009 when Kalle and I met in his Vancouver office to talk about the creation of Culture Jamming, his court victory and his future plans… How Adbusters Grew on Trees [...]
One of the highlights of covering the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival was going for lunch with French actor André Wilms (Europa Europa). I’m not a big European film buff, so not only am I not particularly familiar with Wilms’ oeuvre, if not for spellcheck I’d be afraid to even use the word, “oeuvre.” But [...]