Happy Friday, Toronto! Before you all flee to cottage country for the long weekend, why not take a moment to educate yourselves on the weekly happenings of the world around you?  And WHAT a week it has been! Out on the west coast, BC pollsters have successfully collated enough data to prove once and for all that they do not deserve to have jobs.  In light of their shockingly wrong predictions, coupled with similar results in Alberta and Quebec, many are now seeking ne

Today is the day before my 27th birthday, and I am afraid. The fear in my head is not the kind of dread you feel in the immediate, say, at the sight of something shocking.  It isn't a feel of paranoid unease, either.  Rather, it is a fear brought about by a persistent and unquiet uncertainty, a simmering pot of question stew, bubbling up with chunks of "what if"s  "should I"s . I have just finished my last day of work at my primary source of income.  If I

The Top 10 Best Sci-Fi Movies You've (probably) Never Heard Of Before we proceed to #1, first, the list until now: #10:  Renaissance #9:  Strange Days #8:  Outland #7:  A Wind Named Amnesia #6:  The Quiet Earth #5:  Sleep Dealer #4:  The Man From Earth #3:  Anna to the Infinite Power #2:  Dark Star And without further ado, we're on to...

It's back! This time last year, I decided to declare April my unofficial Sci-Fi month, where I blog about my favourite genre fiction.  Last April, I did up a list of my top 10 shows and top 10 movies, one roughly every weekday. This year, I'm going to have just the one top 10 list, but it's one that I think will intrigue even die-hard fans.  In terms of a ranking system, these are again just my personal opinions based on how I felt the movie ranked alongside its fello

I was sick yesterday!  I plead the plague! Here's the intro and #5 Here's #4 And here's #3 Today I wrap up my fabulous five funny ladies of the internet in celebration of International Women's Day!  Without further ado, it's on to #2...

International Women's Day is this Friday (March 8), and I wanted to take the week leading up to it to talk about the women in the world who give us all the greatest gift possible:  laughter.  INTERNET laughter. Comedy is not an easy thing to begin with, but putting that comedy out onto the world wide web is akin to putting yourself before a slice of humanity that reeks of troll dung and mothers' basements.  The risks are great, but so are the rewards. The women on thi

This week, we kick off our rundown of stories with former Tory adviser and University of Calgary Professor Tom Flanagan's comments from a seminar at the University of Lethbridge (that's Calgary Junior), regarding child pornography: “A lot of people on my side of the spectrum, the conservative side of the spectrum, have been on kind of a jihad against pornography and child pornography in particular. And I certainly have no sympathy for child molesters, but I do have some grave doub

Our top story this week, beloved literary icon Anne of Green Gables has been repackaged as a blonde saucy cowgirl for the latest edition of Lucy Montgomery's public domain novel.  And if you think this is a triviality, a spokesperson for The Anne of Green Gables Licensing Authority Inc has stated that such a radical diversion from the character's origins merits "a full meeting of the (Montgomery/Macdonald) clan".  That's right, Amazon.com.  We're going to go full Highl