CBC Radio 2’s Canada Live Podcast this week features one of Canada’s best known (internationally) musical talents. Daniel Lanois has worked, over the years, with such talents as Bob Dylan, U2, Brian Eno, Peter Gabriel, Emmylou Harris, Robbie Robertson and Ron Sexsmith. This week’s podcast features Lanois on his own, showing off his talents as…
Nuclear Spill at Chalk River
Does anyone remember back in December 2007 when Stephen Harper overrode Atomic Energy of Canada (causing it’s director Michael Burns to resign) and restarted the Chalk River Nuclear Plant? I said at the time that: “By overriding the concerns of those in charge of nuclear safety Harper has scored a few points, possibly, with those…
Bruce McDonald Hosts ‘A Love Supreme’ Fundraiser
Director Bruce McDonald (Hard Core Logo, the Tracy Fragments, Pontypool) is hosting a fundraiser tomorrow night (Wednesday, January 28) to raise funds for his new film “A Love Supreme”. The film is based on the novel by Kent Nussey: “Toronto writer Kent Nussey has given his first novel the same name and structure as Coltrane’s…
Truth!!! Maybe, sorta, kinda
Many of you have no doubt seen the new ads being run by Advertising Standards Canada trying to get you to trust your local advertiser. The video ads look something like this (sorry it’s not embeddable). A full list of the ads they are running on television, radio and in print can be found at…
Boost: New Media
Earlier today I mentioned the other Boost Groups. This one kindof completes the set. It will be the last for awhile, perhaps the last altogether but I’ve just created Boost: New Media: This one deals with new media in the broad sense: That is to say it is for content that is only available online…
Wavelength Turning 9!
From February 12 – 15 Wavelength will be celebrating it’s 9th Anniversary with 19 bands at 5 different venues over 4 days! February 12 at The Music Gallery at St. George the Martyr Church, 197 John St. Timbre Timbre, the Ghost Bees and Dorit Chrysler. Also February 12 @ Cameron House, 408 Queen W. the…
My Platform: Carbon Tax
Ok I said that I wasn’t going to directly discuss the environment – because it touches on so many things that it will be involved in several of the things I’m going to talk about anyway, but I will say that I strongly favor the carbon tax over cap and trade. Proponents of cap and…
the Decline of Canadian Conservatism: It Ain’t Easy Being Blue
I’m not a conservative, I agree with them on very little but sometimes you just have to feel sorry for conservatives in Canada. After the collapse of the Progressive Conservatives in 93 the divided party could not seem to gain any traction or get anywhere near power. Ten years later the party reunited – keeping…
First Boost Group Crosses 1000 Member Mark
The Boost groups that I’ve introduced over the last few months were designed to offer publicity to arts and culture in Canada (to date – music, film and television, art and literature). The idea is as simple as I could make it. People opt in to the groups and are, once a week, sent things…
Drive a Lincoln and Die Alone in Space?
Ford is the one car company that apparently doesn’t need a bailout, which is odd considering their advertising approach. Lincoln, which is owned by Ford paid, what I’m sure is a substantial amount of money to get Cat Power to cover David Bowie’s song Space Oddity they used the song in a new ad for…