With the possible exception of the Black Eyed Peas -- whose 1-2 punch of “Boom Boom Pow” and “I Gotta Feeling” dominated the Billboard charts …

Howard Elias, founder of the Hong Kong Jewish Film Festival There aren’t a lot of Jews in Hong Kong, but that hasn’t stopped the city …

Poets do not appear to be writing as many small lyric poems in Canada as they once did, probably out of a misguided notion that …

Edgar Morin, the co-director of Chronique d’un été once said, ““Talking of the essay film, I would rather refer to the attitude of he who …

It’s been a bit of a strange year for me. Over the past ten or twelve months, I feel as if some certainties in my …

I spend a lot of time on the TTC and I love it. It's not a perfect system (I'm looking at you, big open U …

The IFOA is winding down and my personal contribution has been over for about 24 hours now. I’ve met fun people, eaten some good food, …

So say 54% of Britons, apparently. Well, 54% of the almost 1000 people polled. It might come as a surprise to regular readers of this …

One of the strangest exponents of my IFOA experience this month has been the window into the business world of the festival’s handful of bestselling …

Despite a handful of nods of international films festivals, Paul Fox’s The Dark Hours is better known for a more dubious honour. It was the …

The basement of a shopping mall is the last place you’d expect to find the stirrings of a revolution, but that’s exactly what is happening …

I’ve written before on the negative environmental effects of the cashmere industry, but I’d like to write on the subject in greater detail, and how …

On October 20, I attended George W. Bush’s talk in Edmonton, courtesy of Chris LaBossiere. Bush was speaking at an event titled “A Conversation with …

 What happens when the biggest soccer event of the year rolls into South Africa? Well, apparently a whole bunch of people are going to get …

There’s a neat little horror film that is slowly unrolling across North American theatres which, thanks to online buzz such as this, is angling for …

  Given that I was a pretty big fan of both The Blair Witch Project and Cloverfield, and taking into account my reaction upon seeing …

As a product, I don’t feel I can judge Google Wave accurately yet.  As a (soft) launch, I feel very comfortable labeling it a failure. …

Although it’s hardly the most popular new show of the Fall television season, few have been the water-cooler sensation amongst 20-somethings as Fox’s Glee, and …

Last month, when Canadian children started school, various health officials underlined the importance of proper hygiene in the classroom. These tips and precautions were distributed …

The backlash against too-thin models is spreading. German glossy Brigitte will no longer be featuring models in its pages as of 2010, opting instead to …