Naomi Klein’s Excellent Adventures by Stan Persky Naomi Klein, The Shock Doctrine: The Rise of Disaster Capitalism (Picador, 2007); No Logo: Taking Aim at the Brand Bullies (1999/2000; 2010, Fourth Estate). 1. If you’re a teacher, what your students are wearing tells you something about what’s going on in the culture. In... [Read more...]
After the Circus by Max Fawcett If you listened closely enough on Monday, you could hear Vancouver exhale. After having spent 17 days holding in its belly, the city returned to its approximation of normal as 30,000 visiting tourists and athletes stampeded towards the exits and games officials started... [Read more...]
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After the CircusThe Paralympic games may be yet to come, but the Olympic circus has already packed up and left town. In its wake, Max Fawcett takes a look at the city it changed, and what those changes mean.
Owning the PodiumBrian Fawcett is enjoying Canada’s failure to “Own the Podium” at the Vancouver Winter Olympics. Here’s why.
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On the absence of hatchet-work amongst Canada’s Book ReviewersBrian Fawcett takes exception to Martin Levin’s characterization of Canadian book reviewers as lacking venom. He thinks Levin is part of the cause.
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Naomi Klein’s Excellent AdventuresFrom brand name bullies to the Chicago Boys, an intrepid reporter covers the capitalist waterfront.
Acknowledging a City’s Dark HistoryPrince George poet Barry McKinnon enters the millennium.
How the Nazis took GermanyBrian Fawcett reviews Sebastian Haffner’s 1939 memoir of living in Nazi Germany before the Second World War
Parsing Reality HungerCaleb Powell reviews an about-to-be published and likely-to-be controversial book by American cultural analyst David Shields
Discovering Ulysses S. GrantBrian Fawcett reads an 1885 memoir, and discovers a contemporary culture hero, complete with a code of conduct, along with a literary masterpiece.
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Gary GoodyearRecently minted Federal Minister of Science and Technology under Stephen Harper. He is a chiropractor by profession, and an evangelical Christian. Is his belief that dinosaurs roamed the earth 6014 years ago and that Intelligent Design is actually intelligence a job qualification? Harper evidently thinks it is.
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