YouTube knocking down Canada’s protective cultural wall
Canada’s creative lobby may have turned its back on the world but that doesn’t mean Canadians are joining them in their quest to hide…
Memories of a Transmission lost in translation
Transmission Difficulties: The Dignitaries once had a place of pride behind my father's desk. My mother eventually sold it. Now we know why…
Donor-supported CBC is a model worth pursuing
CBC has become tediously missionary rather than journalistic. And the last thing Canada’s private media needs is to compete with a subsidized entity…
With war on the doorstep, The Singing Cowboy came calling
His tour of the U.K. and Ireland just before the Second World War was a huge success. But prudence meant his entourage came home early to avoid any danger…
Alabama museum pays tribute to the father of the blues
Visit the Alabama birthplace of blues legend W.C. Handy…
Superhero movies teaching us the wrong lessons
No matter their appeal, superheroes fall far short of teaching us principles which will make our world better…
Anti-Alberta bigotry clothed in environmental clichés and platitudes
It is anyone’s guess how long Albertans will put up with this assault on their interests and insult to their self-respect…
Timely advice on how humanity can avoid self-extinction
The author of A 21st Century Economics for the People of a Living Earth, is convinced that we’re threatened … but not doomed.…
What can – and should – be done about CBC
Get CBC out of the advertising business on all of its platforms. And make its content available to other media for free within Canada…
Wild Bunch showed True Grit in demythologizing the Old West
Fifty years ago, True Grit and The Wild Bunch opened in theatres. They were both westerns, but they were dramatically different in tone and intent…