Another life, maybe I'd have stuck as a journalist; academia is only a dozen or so years behind in its spiralling wake. Technology gets us all in the end.

one myself I did as a staff member on the Dalhousie student newspaper, the Gazette., ca. 1992. Good times for sure, and we really did put out the paper once per week, pretty much on time, with Robert doing all the magic in the backroom on the fancy Mac.

so giving him his distinctive speaking voice, mocked in both languages.

There is quite honestly no country on earth except Canada where such a transformation from poverty to power could have happened, and for the good.

but he got his children educated, with petit Jean eventually making it to Law school at Université Laval (the proving grounds of many future PMs). Also, Chrétien was struck by Bell's palsy as a youth, leaving half his face paralyzed and deafness in one ear,

And for those who might not know him, he was the 18th of 19 children (10 did not survive infancy) in the small, working-class town of Shawinigan, Québec. His father supported the war effort in WW2, and got his family completely ostracized by the Catholic Church and by the government for his efforts

"strange". Where's the frickin' edit button?

You think the Flips are all rainbow bubblegum and giant rabbits? No.

Though it's a trite comparison, I can't help but hear this album, eleven years already, as sadly prescient of the grand noirceur coming down the pike. It might have been rooted in Wayne's dissolving marriage, but its spokes of icy techno fear radiate with trepidation.

Who is in the wings for Singh? Coz I can't think of anyone.

Thank you. I'm buying this asap.

Hildegard of Bingen, 'Cosmic Egg'.

I dunno. She still seems possessed.