Media Studies: Heart and Soul

In Norbert Ruebsaat’s Media Studies column, a teacher and student discuss “God.”

Mobile Realism

What are those students doing, under the table, down in their laps? Norbert Ruebsaat investigates.

The Flanagan Flap

Tom Flanagan, remember him? Probably not, if the news and spin cycle has passed you by.

Arme virumque cano

Of guns and gunmen. In the wake of the mass shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the lamentations may be loud, but the silence of the killer is deafening.

Are we leaning toward R&R yet?

Dooney’s Election Central reports in from the abyss of the American election.

Some Thoughts about academic elitism, Postcolonial Impulses, and northern British Columbia

Wally Hourback takes time out from fixing his truck to file a column from North Bay about “Postcolonialism” in Prince George, B.C.

Letter from Berlin: Gunter Grass’s Poem

Gunter Grass writes a poem, and something happens. Stan Persky explains.

The Errors of Their Ways: A French Lesson

Lola Lemire Tostevin has some pointed remarks about Franchophile anglos who massacre the French language because they don’t notice that being a Francophile isn’t the same thing as being a Francophone.

Letter from Berlin: John Cage Season

In Berlin, spring is in the air. So is the music of John Cage.

Rioting Police, Mayors Who Won’t March and other stories

Wally Hourback, writing from North Bay, comments on some recent news items

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