Archive for December, 2011
I originally wrote this for The Globe and Mail in 1990… Merry everything! A Saltspring Christmas It was the Winter of 1987 and I desperately needed a break — from everything. I’d just quit my job, split up with my long-time girlfriend and was discovering the true meaning of stress. So I filled a suitcase with books, clothes [...]
Here’s a special holiday greeting that captures the new Canadian Christmas spirit! I hope you enjoy it — and please share it with anyone else you think will either laugh or swear at it… Tweet
Many Christmases ago I heard Bruce Springsteen singing “Santa Claus is coming to town” and I thought… this has gotta be a Saturday Night Live sketch (like I said, it was a long time ago). The guy who sang about “debts no honest man could pay” was singing a boppy Christmas Carol? It just didn’t [...]
Is Wall Street killing the environment? That’d be one of the big questions posed in the new documentary, Surviving Progress, which opens Friday Dec. 2 at the always funky and fascinating Rio in Vancouver and the Cumberland Four in Toronto. And considering what’s been happening lately in Zuccotti Park and around the world it’s tough [...]