Delayed events, shitty weather, a dead athlete before the opening ceremonies even took place. Not to mention the looming specter of Canadian athletes never having won a gold medal on home soil in two previous attempts.
Yeah, things didn’t start well for the Canadian hosts of these Olympics.
Archive of entries posted on February 2010
No one remembers a shaky start if you finish strong
Giving A Shit: February 27, 2010
Like you, there are plenty of things that I can’t help caring about, even if they’re largely inconsequential to my own life… and on the flip side, plenty of things about which I ostensibly should care but about which I’m simply incapable of giving a shit.
Ergo, I present to you, Giving A Shit for this fine [...]
OMG i vote 4 cons LOL j/k ;)
Well, that’s it.
It was a nice run we had there, with useful democracy. But it seems like those days will soon appear as quaint and outdated as images of doctors smoking in their offices.
I speak — quite melodramatically — of the announcement today that Alberta may test online voting in its next provincial election. The [...]
Good for the goose, no good for the Gander?
Shyness has never exactly been a trademark of Danny Williams, the long-serving and wildly popular premier of Newfoundland and Labrador.
This is a man who, back in 2004, ordered the removal of all Canadian flags from provincial government buildings during a dispute with the federal government over offshore oil revenues. That was just one incident in [...]
Connecting The Dots, Edition #4
In this hectic world, often we don’t have sufficient time to connect the dots between seemingly disconnected stories that flicked their way through our collective consciousness. To help bridge this gap, say hello to Connecting The Dots, where I’ll endeavour to bring together and seemingly disparate stories into a contextualized, cohesive whole. Or I’ll just [...]
Memo to Torontonians on this snowy Tuesday
Ahem.
What the fuck.
Why is it necessary for this city to go into apoplectic shock every time it fucking snows?
I’ve lived in Toronto most of my life, and it snows every fucking winter. And every fucking winter, a fresh snowfall will send this city’s residents all atwitter — everyone forgets how to drive, the civic infrastructure [...]
So we lost. How come the sky isn’t falling?
Well, that sucked.
Need I say more?
I will anyway. Canada’s 5-3 loss to the USA in a round-robin game last night is — as if this preposterous statement needs reaffirmation — not the end of the world, either for the team or the nation in general.
I know, you’d think that there’d be riots and looting after [...]
Retro Squizz: “There goes the neighbourhood. Again.”
Retro Squizz is a blast from the past, a “gem” plucked from my six years’ worth of blogging archives. It’s also an easy way to post something on days when I don’t have time to come up with anything fresh. But hey, they’ve held up pretty well, I think. Today’s post was originally published to [...]
Retro Squizz: “The greatest thing to hit Barrie since… uh…”
Retro Squizz is a blast from the past, a “gem” plucked from my six years’ worth of blogging archives. It’s also an easy way to post something on days when I don’t have time to come up with anything fresh. But hey, they’ve held up pretty well, I think. Today’s post was originally published to [...]
Gordon Lightfoot is alive! And so are some others!
Calm down, everyone. Despite hysterical tweets or text messages you may have received yesterday, Gordon Lightfoot is, indeed, alive and well. While I was relieved to learn that it was all a hoax, the propagation of this falsehood shattered my perception of social media as infallible providers of reliable news. And that makes me sad. [...]