Happy National Aboriginal Day everyone!
Wab Kinew, always concise, does 500 years of ‘Canadian’ history in 2 minutes.
National Aboriginal Day – Wab Kinew’s “500 years in 2 minutes”
June 21, 2015
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“When Hipsters Dream of the 1890s” – an abridged version of my hipster essay is now in Briarpatch Magazine
May 7, 2015
Briarpatch Magazine, one of Canada’s oldest lefty political mags, has published an abridged version of my earlier essay on heritage hipsters and colonialism redux.
If you want to read the original and longer post (with a far drier title) it is here: Settler & pioneer “heritage hipster” styles in the age of Idle No More, Chinatown gentrification, &c.
Murder Murder
April 28, 2015
Apparently this is not a renegade settler war party, it’s a new “bloodgrass” band from Sudbury in Northern Ontario called Murder Murder. You can listen to their banjo-esque non-Northern-Ontario-ish neo-bluegrass murdery numbers at the link above.
Mountain Don’t
April 23, 2015
As a friend pointed out upon seeing this ad, “do we really need Mad Max meets Deliverance”? Actually it would be great to see Tina Turner showing up and knocking something over, a table maybe, or the narrative, but she is exactly not what this nostalgic fantasy is about.
Craigslist: “For Sale: Vancouver City Hall. Cash only, please. No Questions asked.”
April 6, 2015
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Ha ha. Sadly, this Craigslist ad was quickly taken down, but not before lots of us took screenshots and copied the text (a friend uploaded it to her Facebook).
“In the lonely cockpit of our lives” by Bifo Berardi
April 4, 2015
Franco ‘Bifo’ Beradi, author of Heroes: Mass Murder and Suicide, responds to the Germanwings crash, which is believed to have been intentionally crashed by co-pilot Andreas Lubitz
I think this is essential reading on the Germanwings suicide crash.
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politics,
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Album: Native North America Vol. 1
March 9, 2015
This is a superb and historically important album, a compilation of music by indigenous musicians in Canada 1968-1985. It’s telling that I had only heard one of these tracks before hearing the album; it points to a disturbing lack of airplay of native music during those years.
DSquared’s provocational fashion line & #Dsquaw hashtag
March 5, 2015
Despite all the backlash to Ralph Lauren’s genocide chic advertising campaign last year, it seems designers have either learned nothing, or conversely they’ve learned that outrage is free and effective PR in the fashion world.
Post-mortem on the old Eaton’s building: an interview with Cesar Pelli
March 2, 2015
The TD Bank building and Eaton’s building by Cesar Pelli, photo © Michael de Courcy, mid-1970s
This is not a true post-mortem, since Cesar Pelli‘s 1973 Eaton’s building has not actually been demolished—and how rare it is to be able to say that in Vancouver, now one of North America’s capitals of demolition.
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1970s
Cesar Pelli
demolition
downtown
Eaton's building
facade
glass
James Cheng
loss of history
TD building
Vancouver
YOU HAD ONE JOB
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architect,
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Women in great trousers
March 1, 2015
