While hardly a fan of awards (personally afflicted with "always a bridesmaid, never a bride" syndrome), I love nothing more than to use my unqualified opinion to judge others. Who is qualified, anyway? Reviews and art criticism are the pinnacle of narcissism, which is why I generally keep to myself...

Three months ago we welcomed a baby boy into this world. Our second child, Apollo, is a great kid, a delight to have around, a big smiler and destined to be a charming man. A Scorpio, born the year of the Dragon, his ferocity will be benevolent as he grins...

With the end of the world right around the corner (again), I've been experiencing a confluence of ideas. Witnessing a cultural paradigm shift. Watching a new consciousness unfold. And I attribute it mostly to the popularity of zombie culture.

Seriously, though: this stream of thought stemmed from reading a new...

I am now in the twilight of my second pregnancy: with less than two weeks to go and the baby already "in position," I'm finding I have to force myself to focus on the marathon I'm about to run. Labour is similar to just that -- running a marathon --...

Thanks to Twitter, Facebook and other places that algorithmically recommend things one should be interested in, I read an article on the Vice media empire. The headline: "Can Vice Get 20-Somethings to Watch the News?" The most intriguing quote was from Vice co-founder Shane Smith on some of the...

Last night I stayed up to follow Quebec's provincial election results as they came in -- loving the auto-updating, mobile version of the Elections Quebec website. I stayed up as late as I could, eventually falling asleep when only about 80 per cent of the votes were officially in....

Lately I've been obsessed with today's musical climate. Too long have I agonized over this sentiment, trying to reconcile whether "it's just me" or if music has evolved into a new beast with unusual behaviours I no longer understand.

As is well documented on my blog, I feel...

I had an idea for a short story in which the main character's life is dictated by products and services provided by Google. It was set in the near future where self-driving cars dominate the roads, and one's home and social life, commute and workplace are completely regulated by computers....