'Tis been a quiet day - which will likely become an increasing rarity in the months ahead, and so all the more precious. The busy season started early at work.

Anyway, in my continuing struggle to get all these to-review books off my pile, here's another from the Non-Fiction pile - The Armageddon Factor by Marci McDonald, an exposé of the ( Read more... )

So I've been trying to review some of the books that have been sitting on my to-review pile for ages.

( review continues for La Nuit Des Princes Charmants by Michel Tremblay )

So it's Remembrance Day - a day to remember all the naive kids who went off to the meat-grinder of two World Wars, without any real idea what they were getting into ( Read more... )

Also, I've updated my historical blog, about the disappearance of the Two-Spirit traditions in Canada ( Read more... )

It's been a good week. montrealais is back from Europe. Tickets to Tori arrived in the mail -- thank you em_fish! Elections Canada is on my back about Ts someone else forgot to cross, but I think that's going to work out ( Read more... )

Happy Canada Day! It's been 142 years since Confederation, and depending on how you count, we could four hundred years old or longer. John Ralston Saul argues we're effectively thousands of years old, because our usual way of counting leaves out aboriginal peoples who contributed so much to this country ( Read more... )

Today is the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, which is the touchstone moment of the gay movement in the United States. Celebrations are planned all over Canada ( Read more... )

PoliticsWell, it's been quite a week. Harper's bought himself some time, but at a massive cost of credibility. Ontario's economy is getting worse and Quebeckers are disillusioned. You don't take power in this country without the two most-populated provinces ( Read more... )

I've updated my historical website with something historical for a change. The new article is about homosexuality in the media at the end of the 19th and the turn of the 20th century in Canada ( Read more... )

I'd like to wish a happy birthday to Quebec City, founded 400 years ago today ^_^

This is actually a more honest date for the founding of the country than the 141st-birthday we celebrated a couple of years ago, which really only marked the point when de facto democracy became official and backed up by a constitution, and when some aspects of the ( Read more... )