TWIM: Facebook Beacon – threat or menace?
This week’s bluffer’s guide, courtesy of yours truly, is about Facebook Beacon, the outside-website-integration idea that provoked a lot of ruckus among techies because it wasn’t as clearly opt-in as...
View ArticleTWIM: Griffintown and telemarketers
This week’s Justify Your Existence features a slew of “urban planning geeks” who met a few weeks ago to discuss the proposed redevelopment of Griffintown, a sad-looking area just south of downtown....
View ArticleTWIM: A primary primer
This week’s bluffer’s guide is about U.S. presidential primaries, the first of which was held this week. It’s about as much information as I could cram into 750 words about the overly complicated...
View ArticleTWIM: Kenya and bus schedules
This week’s Bluffer’s Guide concerns the unstable political situation in Kenya, which has already claimed hundreds of lives in a country that was supposed to be one of Africa’s democratic leaders....
View ArticleThat whole Zimbabwe thing
Today’s paper features a Bluffer’s Guide by yours truly on the political situation in Zimbabwe. A full week after the vote, presidential election results have yet to be released. Unofficial tallies...
View ArticleMyanmar 101
This week’s Bluffer’s Guide is by yours truly, about the crisis in Myanmar following Cyclone Nargis. I was actually responsible for the entire Seven Days page this week, replacing the vacationing Peter...
View ArticleTWIM: GM/CAW FYI
I filled in once again for Master Bluffer Peter Cooney in this week’s Bluffer’s Guide as he was having a busy week. I wrote about GM’s closing of a plant in Oshawa, Ont., and what the Canadian Auto...
View ArticleSorry for the genocide
This week’s bluffer’s guide courtesy of yours truly is about the Canadian residential school system, which the Canadian government formally apologized for this week. In addition to the apology, the...
View ArticleTWIM: Dion’s carbon tax idea
Somehow, despite working 42 hours this week, I managed to put together another bluffer’s guide, for the Liberal carbon tax plan. Liberal leader Stéphane Dion calls it Green Shift, which I guess is not...
View ArticleNHL free agency explained (I hope)
The Bluffer’s Guide this week, courtesy once again of yours truly, is about NHL free agency, which began on July 1 as it does every year. Our beloved Canadiens got its star power-play quarterback...
View ArticleTWIM: Can Flashpoint become Due South 2?
This week, the Bluffer’s Guide is on the new CTV series Flashpoint, the cop drama “proudly set in Toronto” (but not mentioning its name) which was picked up by CBS and is being aired on both networks...
View ArticleTWIM: Scientology, the NFL and other threats to our existence
A double dose from yours truly today: This week’s Justify Your Existence is an interview with a member of Anonymous, the anti-Scientology group. Though she’s unnamed, you’ll recognize her as the same...
View ArticleA1
It will probably stand as the last of my firsts for at least a little while. After four years (off and on) of doing just about every other editing job at the paper, last night I sat at the desk...
View ArticleThis Week in Me: The New New Democratic Party
Page A2 of today’s Gazette was all me again this week (it’s going to be the case for the next few Mondays as well). Below the usual Monday Calendar is a Bluffer’s Guide to the NDP’s proposed name...
View Article
