10 Reasons Why the U.S.A. Isn’t All Bad
It wasn’t until my 20th-Century American Literature professor said she admired Americans’ tenacity that I realized I hadn’t heard anything nice said about the States in three years. I was
It wasn’t until my 20th-Century American Literature professor said she admired Americans’ tenacity that I realized I hadn’t heard anything nice said about the States in three years. I was
Back in the first century A.D., the Apostle Paul wrote, “But if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her.” Even now, in a world unfettered by
According to a recent British study led by James Curran, director of the Goldsmiths Leverhulme Media Research Centre, women know less about the ins and outs of the political world than men. The
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Justin Bieber receives somewhere between 60 and 100 Twitter mentions per second. So in the time it took you to read that sentence (and now this one), hundreds of hopeful
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So I told my friend in Portland, Oregon, that I was writing a list of great Canadian albums, and he responded by suggesting that the whole darn thing should be
A man sits on a chair in an empty room, a sock puppet extended from his left hand. The caption reads: “He would win back the children.” Elsewhere, a bearded
Canada is known as a country of beer drinkers, but beer drinkers of a certain ilk. Despite the jingoistic protestations of TV commercials that tout Canadian beer as something to
1. “Finally!” 2. “I once went to this wedding where _____. It was the worst! But don’t worry — I’m sure yours will be perfect.” the bride kept everyone waiting for an
Did you know Barbra Streisand almost became Canada’s equivalent of the First Lady? Back in January 1970, she made headlines by showing up at the National Arts Centre in Ottawa on Prime
If you’ve ever been bored on an airplane, you’ve probably noticed the ubiquitous, ridiculous in-flight catalog SkyMall tucked in your seat pocket. From the items listed in the mecca of weird, ripped-from-infomercial
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