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Tag Archives: Michael Ignatieff
down the slippery slope of the golan
Well, he was supposed to be the savior of Canada. They, the liberal party dragged him out of Harvard and basically said it would be cake-walk to 24 Sussex Drive, a formality, get inside to Ignatieff’s ego and off they … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion
Tagged Adad Hannah, Bashar Al Assad, Celeste Holm, ezra levant, gericault raft of the medusa, Golan Heights border violation, Haim Waxman, John Wayne Cast a Giant Shadow, Kate Middleton, Kate Middleton field hockey, Kirk Douglas Cast a Giant Shadow, Michael Ignatieff, Stephen Sondheim, Syrian Civil War, Theodore Gericault, Thorstein Veblen, Vladimir Putin
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they won’t let him rest in peace
Not what you call turning the other cheek or noblesse oblige. Call it payback. A little spittle running down the lip after missing the non-existent urn. Or maybe the winds of bad faith blowing back in the face. I hope … Continue reading
the w.s. walcott election show
Get involved. Donate now. Are you in? Want to buy some cool looking swag? A bobble head doll of our glorious leader? Is their clairvoyancy in politics? Should we care? As the Canadian election yawns into the back nine with … Continue reading
Caravaggio and a bridge too far
Know your Caravaggio. Scholars have been contesting two exhibit works authenticity that will be appearing at the National Gallery in Ottawa. Two of the eleven canvases pre-certified as original Caravaggios in the planned summer exhibition on the Italian baroque are … Continue reading
peeking around the corner: prophet cafe politics
On December 10, 1926, at 9 P.M. at the Prophet cafe, the surrealists met to decide whether to form an alliance with the Communist party. Antonin Artaud, for whom all political parties were equally irrelevant, displayed a noticeable lack of … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous
Tagged Antonin Artaud, bob rae, Brian Palmer, George Orwell, Henry Miller, jack layton, Kenneth Rexroth, Machiavelli, Margaret Thatcher, Michael Ignatieff, Paul Martin, Rick Salutin, stephane dion, Stephen Harper, Tony Blair
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political theatre: the extent to which life is unrepresentable
Can dissidence be accomplished through the ballot box? Does voting actually change anything? As Canadians put aside their donuts and hockey to contemplate the election on May 3, a new bogeyman has emerged on the national agenda; quietly slipping into … Continue reading
Posted in Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged brett grundlock, George Woodcock, Jack M. Greenstein, Jacques Derrida, justin trudeau, Michael Ignatieff, Northrop Frye, Paul Kane, Rick Salutin, Stephen Harper
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JUST KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR YELLOW SNOW
Canada… the true north…..Wikileaks….It must be something in the water, and Canadians don’t want Americans drinking it or sharing it … “A few acres of snow” – “Quelques arpents de neige”- is a quotation from Voltaire popularly understood to be … Continue reading
Posted in Art History/Antiquity/Anthropology, Cinema/Visual/Audio, Feature Article, Ideas/Opinion, Literature/poetry/spoken word, Marketing/Advertising/Media, Miscellaneous, Music/Composition/Performance
Tagged Andrew Mayeda, Andy Riga, Bruce Arthur National Post, Dan Gardner Ottawa Citizen, Daniel Francis, Dave Pugliese, George Woodcock, Julie Spergel, Laura Spergel, Michael Greenstein, Michael Ignatieff, Michael Kinsley Washington Post, Mordecai Richler, Mordechai Richler, Northrop Frye, Patrick Douglass Cox, Patrick Hennessy Telegraph, Rob Ford Toronto mayor, Roy MacGregor Globe and Mail, Sander L. Gilman, Stephen Duckett, Susan Delacourt, Tony Clement, Voltaire Candide, wayne and shuster
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Paper Art : Make Your Own Ballot
Gratefully, Canadians will have temporarily avoided an election. Replacing one species of rats with another, though of anthropological and scientific interest; there is about as much certainty of reaction to a given stimulus as Dr. Skinner demonstrated with his Skinner … Continue reading
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Tagged Iggy, Ignatieff, Liberal Part of Canada, Mark Jenkins, Michael Ignatieff
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