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CBC Television has this crazy late-night show called ZeD (11:30-12:30). It’s a kind of hip and urban artsy show hosted by Sharon Lewis. It’s got the look and feel of something European, except for its being so conspicuously self-aware in its hipness. The show is 100% Canadian content (which is good), primarily composed of short [...]

That shite has been dragging the blork blog down for too long. Their current “performance problems” have pushed me over the edge, so welcome to comments via Haloscan. The template I chose is nothing special, but perhaps I’ll find some time next week to customize it. I’ve also been implementing more CSS, but it’s conflicting [...]

Last week Montrealer Yann Martel ran out the front door of the Great Court of the British Museum with The Booker Prize in his back pocket. Fortunately, he had, indeed, won it. This week Montreal playwright Carole Frechette nabbed the Elinore and Lou Siminovitch Prize in Theatre. This highly-prestigious Canadian award is unusual for two [...]

Tango Airlines is celebrating their first anniversary of business, and they have a limited-time special in which random flights are only a dollar. I’m going to Toronto this weekend, so I checked it out last week, and I discovered that if you take a very early flight to Toronto on Saturday morning (November 2) and [...]

I made this fabulous soup with ingredients I had on-hand, with the exception of the green onions. I’ve been reading Kitchen by Banana Yoshimoto, and every five minutes the characters are eating ramen. So I’ve been carrying around an urge, and had bought the green onions in anticipation. Tonight I satiated the urge. I began [...]

The other day I saw a new book on the shelves; a tribute to Peter Gzowski. Gzowski was the long-time host of CBC Radio’s national morning show “Morningside” from 1982 to 1997, as well as a number of other TV and radio shows over the years. In 1958 he was the youngest editor to ever [...]

This just in… Spanish-born Montreal resident Yann Martel has won this year’s Booker Prize for his novel “Life of Pi.”