When the sport you love insults your values, your values must win. That's why I'd like to publicly announce the immediate dumping of my formerly loved sport, Formula One, and offer you a peek at my break-up letter:
Dear Formula One:
How did it come to this?
By believing...
36 Comments | Posted December 22, 2011 | 11:02 AM
You can see them coming easier than a hailstorm in Saskatoon. One of my favourites is the cock-and-bull Ezra Levant uttered in his recent Sun TV editorial. If the man has a gift it's parroting reactionary Canadians. He definitely nailed the "It's not my fault" grumble I've heard...
23 Comments | Posted October 17, 2011 | 4:37 PM
When it comes to the North our government likes to be tough. We will gladly spend $9 billion on F-35 fighter jets, ostensibly to help patrol our Arctic airspace and keep it Russian-free. We will get verklempt with Cold War-esque patriotism watching a cherub-faced Stephen Harper
4 Comments | Posted August 31, 2011 | 1:51 PM
Despite having the large, pouty eyes of a female manga character, Rachel Yan, a pretty 25-year-old woman in Beijing, thinks a lot about aging.
"I'm the only child and so I have to look after my parents," she says, as we sit in a dead night club near Tiananmen...
2 Comments | Posted August 15, 2011 | 11:40 AM
Richard Laymer, Rob Schneider's wonderfully annoying office character who lurked near the photocopier in 1990's SNL sketches, would love today's China. As he'd say, "China. The China-natorrr! Makin' some copies."
Kunming, sleepy capital of China's Yunnan province, has become world famous this month for being home to 22...
1 Comments | Posted August 3, 2011 | 1:47 PM
"They think they can control it but we are not stupid," says a woman who I'll call Alice. "We see what is happening through [Sina] Weibo."
It's a week after the crash of two bullet trains in China, which killed more than 40 and injured 191, and Alice and I...
3 Comments | Posted April 24, 2012 | 8:01 AM