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Low “Budget” Humour
By Shane Jolley – Reader’s who are slightly older than I may remember a TV show from the ‘70s called The Gong Show. It was a celebrity variety show complete with bad (sometimes crass) humour, silly stunts, a jeering, hooting audience and as with all bad comedy, plenty of contrived applause. In fact, it bore [...]
America’s worst property crash
TO THE many dubious distinctions of Las Vegas, add one more: foreclosure capital of America. According to RealtyTrac, a property-listings firm, one in every ten homes in the city was in some stage of foreclosure last year, almost five times the national rate. In North Las Vegas, a poorer suburb, the figure was [...]
Roméo Dallaire will be one of the feature authors – Lindsay Shaw
Two years ago, I had the fortune of meeting Roméo Dallaire. What’s that? You don’t know who Roméo Dallaire is? He is Canadian Senator. He is a humanitarian. He is an author. He is also my father’s doppelganger (seriously). His book Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda, chronicles Dallaire’s [...]
Confessions from a Late Bloomer – Truth be told
“This is you,” the elderly school psychologist said as he pushed up his horn-rimmed glasses and pointed to the left side of what looked like the outline of a camel’s hump. I sat closer, trying to make sense of what I was being shown. “And this,” he said, moving his finger toward [...]
Fukushima engineer confesses to criminal coverup
Just days after the 9.1 mega-earthquake and tsunami hit off the east cost of Japan, a former employee of Hitachi Ltd. (6501) came forward saying that he helped cover up a flawed steel protective vessel that was installed in the Fukushima Dai-Ichi Reactor 4 core in 1974. Mitsuhiko Tanaka told Bloomberg that the defective [...]
Suzuki at 75: An elder for the planet
David Suzuki turned 75 Thursday and after a half-century of fighting for the planet, the Godfather of Canada’s environmental movement is frustrated and worried. The scientist, turned media celebrity, turned environmental activist, is looking back on his life and calling on Canada’s seniors to provide guidance to the country’s next generation of [...]
2nd Linares International Literary Festival, Linares, N.L., Mexico
It was in Linares, Nuevo León, a town located 127 kms outside of Monterrey, in which the celebrated US-Canadian poet Albert Moritz first plucked an orange from a tree, the Indian-Canadian author Jasmine D’Costa felt like a rock star, Bosnian author Goran Simic proved that México is a country filled with warm and welcoming people, [...]
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