When Hillary Clinton gingerly downed a shot of Crown Royal at a campaign stop this week (see below), it illustrated the dangers of pandering to blue-collar voters. It’s a risky...
When I was a boy, Stanley Park was pretty much my very own back yard. I grew up in an apartment on the corner of Gilford and Robson, so the park was only a block away and I spent...
It’s been said that in America there’s no such thing as a free lunch.
Sometimes, however, there can be--or, at least, a free ride-–as in the case of Republican presidential...
Leave it to the Swedes, with their Volvos and meatballs and midnight sun, to come up with the best holiday tradition ever – a giant straw Christmas goat (or, Julbock), which is...
Recently, I came across a photograph of my grandfather. It's from 1937, and he'd just arrived in Spain to fight for the Republic. Posing in front of an olive tree, he's young and...
Now, don’t get me wrong – I love the space program, and I love Star Wars (the first three movies, anyway), but something about NASA sending Luke Skywalker’s light saber up on the...
By Max Brooks. Crown, 342 pp, $32.95, hardcover.
Told in the interview style of Studs Terkel’s The Good War, and just in time for Halloween, World War Z: An Oral History of the...
The first time I saw 2001: A Space Odyssey, I must have been about seven or eight years old. It made a real impression on me””not because of the trippy imagery or even the...
Ah, the life of a cowboy-city behind you, wide open space in
front, a trusty horse underneath, and the sweet smell of
sagebrush-what could be more liberating or more of an...
When summer embraces Vancouver, there's nothing better than
grabbing a rod and reel and heading out to a favourite fishing
spot. You see, fishing isn't about actually catching...
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