Imagine, for a moment, an alternate universe where Canada is the dominant entertainment production force on the planet rather than the United States of America. Everything about the two countries is exactly as it is now the only exception is that Hollywood is in Vancouver and the major television networks dominating North American television since […]
Crude Awakening
“It builds character.” These words of encouragement, long-favoured by well-intentioned relatives and friends, cycled endlessly in my mind as I sat behind my faux-wood desk in my soon-to-be-former cubicle on the west side of the fourteenth floor of Gulf Canada Square in suddenly not-so-opportunity-filled Calgary. I was numb. A few minutes prior, my phone had […]
An Open Letter to The Tragically Hip
First of all, let me just say, “Wow!” And, “Thank you.” But mostly, “Wow!” That was one hell of a show you guys put on just over two weeks ago. Even now it feels like the entire country continues to bask in a post-coital glow from that final concert, and those are just the folks […]