Opinionated Lesbian : Media

June 22, 2006 3:38 PM

For the junkies: Media madness

The Canadian Senate's "Final Report on the Canadian News Media" is out. I'd call it a heckuva doorstopper, but that's sooo old technology. It's a memory hogger. (See my past report on the committee here.) There's not a single mention of the queer press

June 8, 2006 5:52 PM

Gayness sells out

Congrats to Toronto's Rob Sands, who has sold his tiny Canadian business, the 365gay.com online news service, to the bigshots of the mainstream media monster Viacom, via its subsidiary, the queer American Logo TV network. Rob founded the site in 2000

June 2, 2006 1:34 PM

What? You mean just say it? Out loud? Well, I never...

Ah, euphemisms and snark. There was a time when reporters were happy to be snide. Nowadays, it seems it's just irrelevant to mention someone's homo private life. And so we have film writer Brian D. Johnson of Maclean's mag mentioning CBC radio host

May 26, 2006 10:18 AM

B'bye QTN

Am just darned busy right now, thus -- yesterday's nooze, today! Over and out: The United States is now minus one queer broadcasting network. Over here, still no call-back from OUTtv's Bill Craig on how things are going in the Snowbound North.

May 19, 2006 2:32 PM

No fig leaf -- maple

Enviro-god David Suzuki, host of TV's "The Nature of Things," first posed nude in 1999. Now 70 years old, he's done it again. That is all.

May 17, 2006 10:58 AM

You laugh, I complain

....and then then there are the people who, out of chagrin, remove what others consider offensive. Straight Goods isn't some sort of hetero power thing, it's a leftie Internet publication (I receive its mailouts, though, shamefully, I've never subscribed

May 16, 2006 4:15 PM

Paper chase

On April 13, the Court of Appeal for Saskatchewan also did the right thing. A three-judge panel unanimously told a group of gay activists that a newspaper ad expressing dislike for homo sex was legal. But sadly, we yet again have a decision that allows

May 16, 2006 2:13 PM

"Fag" -- come on, say it with me

"Fag" is okay on TV! Sometimes. Yes, the Canadian Broadcast Standards Council -- the busy body industry umbrella group that exists in order to deflect complaints filed to (and criticism placed by) the federal regulator that is the CRTC -- has ruled

May 16, 2006 1:09 PM

More is better

Catching up on media nooze today. Tranna Star media columnist Antonia Zerbisias blogged about the need for Arabic news network Al-Jazeera to come to North America. Would Americans who hate Al-Jazeera "prefer to rip up the U.S. constitution and muzzle

May 11, 2006 1:28 PM

How many eyeballs...

...are fixed on OUTtv? Given the money woes, the answer is not enough. The cable network has managed to avoid declaring bankrutpcy, it sez here. I finally ditched a channel in favour of OUTtv, but gotta confess that I never watch it. "At an April

May 8, 2006 9:30 AM

To arms! Destroy Mary Worth!

The reason we all hate the comics pages of our local daily paper is quite simple: they're trying to please everybody. And so every ego-obsessed reader scowls angrily at what they despise. The more segregation in media, the more we can program for ourselves

May 3, 2006 8:34 PM

Welcome to the 21st century

Ahoy! The CBC has finally worked out the sillies. I'm talkin' podcasts! Oples readers will be aware of a certain... contempt... in this corner for the slowpokes at the MotherCorpse, busily pushing busy Canucks into listening to the fershlugginner

April 27, 2006 12:05 PM

Too easy?

The Ryerson Review of Journalism's newest issue has a go at the Montreal Gazette: "To expand readership, The Gazette has made some impressive editorial improvements. Sadly, they may not be enough to attract the one audience it needs for long-term survival."

April 25, 2006 5:39 PM

The perils of meaning well

The problem with goodie-goodies who use comics as way of educating the great unwashed is simple: the propagandists of safe sex, or who're battling spousal abuse or female circumcision, often don't understand the joy and artistry of comics. So they --

April 19, 2006 12:17 PM

The rabble at babble

Some media nooze. Background: Babble.ca is the cyber-forum section of the leftie current affairs site, Rabble.ca, the favoured child of feminist Judy Rebick (among others). I check it every couple of days, but much of the content is reprinted from union

April 14, 2006 10:17 AM

Judy, Judy, Judy

Canada has so little in terms of gay press. By comparison, the U.S. is crawling with queer media. And Judy Wieder was one of the few women who scuttled about within. The bug thing is not about insult, but about the place of homos. She helped bring gay

April 13, 2006 8:27 AM

Retract, retract! Backwards ho! Reverse ferret!

The entire queer-o-sphere-o-'net is agog with shock and awe over Out's hetero editor. Except it turns out he's not straight. He's very, very, very gay. Ah. Well, still, the issue is , er, inneresting. Eh? Never mind.

April 12, 2006 9:22 AM

The end of gay

The American glossy Out magazine, which makes no pretense of seeking female readers -- it's all boy, all the time -- has been looking for a new editor in chief since Brendan Lemon hightailed it outta there in October. Out found Andrew Hicklin, who'll

April 7, 2006 3:55 PM

What's the frequency, Kenneth?

Yowza. The CRTC has approved a queer radio station. Whatever that is. Details here. It's a tiny, 50 watt deal -- the radio waves are crowded in Tranna. So that's actually pretty smart, focusing on a small geographical area (helps with making those

March 28, 2006 2:39 PM

Kidnappings, Danish cartoons, gays and Islam

I did a quick survey story in this month's Press Pass Q (third news piece down) on how the North American queer press responded to the Danish cartoons fiasco. There was very little.... Here's the copy I found: Lavender managing editor Ethan Boatner

March 13, 2006 2:11 PM

The real power

Beneath the rule of men entirely great the pen is mightier than the sword. The auteur Edward George Bulwer-Lytton wrote that by-now clichéd phrase. And yeah, I have a story. Or two. I was in high school -- years ago -- when students at the university

March 8, 2006 10:37 AM

Maybe queer TV is a non-starter

The continuing spiral of the Q Television Network in the U.S. of A.

February 22, 2006 10:27 AM

The dish

Quick queer media hits. The American Q Television Network is hurtin' bad. Details here. AND... Rex Wockner is probably the best-known gay reporter in the United States. He's a syndicated writer who does the unthinkable -- he makes a living as a

February 22, 2006 9:25 AM

Hurting my feelings? That's illegal

Yes, offensive Holocaust denial blatherings got "historian" David Irving three years of jail time in Vienna. This is where fundamentalists of all stripes meet -- in the belief that intimidation or punishment can fix it. Martyrs, anyone?There's now a demand

February 21, 2006 11:05 AM

That's the magic number

La Presse reporter Emilie Coté has touched on the newest pay-for-play payola scam in the U.S. (a repeat of the 1950s mess), and looked at how a new tune finds airtime on the Montreal FM radio waves. Each week, stations like CKOI, Energie, Rythme FM and

February 3, 2006 10:40 AM

'Toon town

Far from the fray, I can call "fascinating" the kerfuffle over the Danish publishing and European-wide republishing of a bunch of cartoons portraying the Prophet Muhammed. Even if some of the images are positive (which some are). It's sort-of forbidden

January 31, 2006 3:15 PM

NPR: Canada's new national broadcaster

I've finished listening to another week's worth of fascinating history, pop culture and book news. All of it American. This because the homegrown CBC just cannot cope with emerging technology. I now listen to podcasts on my schedule, not that of the broadcasters.

January 25, 2006 10:32 AM

The end of satire

The new satire "American Dreamz" places a (wacky) U.S. president on a (tacky) TV game show. But it hasn't even been released yet, and it's already out of date: "[F]our former prime ministers will gather on-stage in Toronto next week to elect a potential

January 23, 2006 12:45 PM

One, two, four, eleventeen, sixty-three....

I look forward to a real horse race tonight with the polling results, and also hoping for a bit of entertaining media madness. Here's one last excerpt from Knowlton Nash's 1996 "Cue the Elephant" tome, aboot a CBC moment at the end of World War II: "[R]eacting

January 23, 2006 12:22 PM

File under: lying can be fun

Here's what we really need today, election day -- something totally different: the tale of Mr. Kosmos Kagool. Kozie exists because of journalist Clyde Gilmour (of the MotherCorp's "Gilmour's Albums" fame). "In the 1930s [Gilmour] saw a movie in which

January 19, 2006 3:36 PM

OUTtv goes bankrupt?

Oh, we were going to take the world by storm, weren't we? We were wealthy, obsessed with ourselves and ready to buy into our own TV station. Ha. Canada's queer television channel has suffered yet another setback. Xtra reports that "Shaw Communications,

January 19, 2006 1:05 PM

She likes us, she really likes us!

My stars and garters, professional right-winger and queer hate-monger Babs Amiel has come out in favour of gay marriage. The world is just topsy-turvy. "Sir Elton John married his Canadian sweetheart David Furnish just before Christmas and yes, I wish

January 6, 2006 12:56 PM

Follow that hansom!

I call my digital television box HAL, after the mad computer in "2001: A Space Odyssey." HAL-9000 completely controls my connection to the outside world, and if it ever speaks, I'm evacuating the building. HAL allows the cable company (Videotron, in

December 21, 2005 10:00 AM

The lies that go into truth

In "Capote," the title character protests (too much) that he tells only the truth. It's a wonderful movie, the tale of screaming queen and auteur Truman, a five-foot-three elf believably played by the giant Philip Seymour Hoffman, even down to speaking

December 20, 2005 11:46 AM

Every so often I give in

Okay, okay, here's an election tidbit, a link to the Maclean's mag "Svend him Packing" eye-gougingly-nasty call to dump monsieur Robinson, the disgraced pol who hopes to return to the House of Commons in January. Robinson was the first member of Parliament

December 16, 2005 11:31 AM

Math is hard

The San Francisco Chronicle has corrected a mathematical error made on 'The Simpsons' TV show that the paper repeated without checking. The story "mistakenly said that 1,782 to the 12th power plus 1,841 to the 12th power equals 1,922 to the 12th power.

December 13, 2005 4:09 PM

What I meant to say

Regret The Error is a Montreal-based website that tracks humiliating mistakes made in the media. "Ladies and Gentleman, the Correction of the Year for 2005, as published in the Denver Daily News on July 27: The Denver Daily News would like to offer a

December 9, 2005 1:45 PM

Pants on fire

To be a reporter is to tell The Truth. All. The. Time. It's a worthy, earnest, and dull trade. The endless prim and proper of professional goodie-goodiness. Makes me want to lie. But of course, I would be pilloried in a world where a reporter's truth

December 7, 2005 12:14 PM

The bravery of the every day

The last 24 hours have featured -- as usual -- media coverage on violence against women, it being the anniversary of the "Montreal Massacre." And activists have, for many years, argued that part of the problem is silence. Which is why I'm starting to

December 2, 2005 11:18 AM

Feet, AIDS Kills

I hope to be the only English media in Montreal spelling out the f-word today. Damn, I'm rad. Sez da Gazoo: "AIDS activists took advantage of World AIDS Day to criticize city of Montreal officials, the transit system, McGill University, CEGEP Vieux

November 29, 2005 11:10 AM

The Christ in U, too

U2 is a Christian rock group. Deal. At least Rolling Stone mag managed to fit it in ("Chatting to Rolling Stone founder and editor [and reluctantly out] Jann Wenner, catch Bono musing on growing up in Dublin, the early days of U2, the first rehearsals

November 13, 2005 5:51 PM

How I love my ex

Can't get away from her. Tonight on channel 2 (in Montreal), the Radio Canada show "Tout le monde en parle" runs an interview with Lynda Veronneau, Karla Homolka's lover of three years. Or so Lynda claims, anyway. The Sunday La Presse features a two-page

November 10, 2005 12:45 PM

Are women dealing themselves out?

I was chatting with a longtime queer volunteer who noted that many homo community groups -- even if offering important and essential services to all -- are overwhelmingly male-run. Getting women involved is an uphill battle. Why is that? And is it

November 9, 2005 7:10 PM

Stop the presses

Holy smokes. The California-based PlanetOut Inc., already a hefty queer media group (it also owns the monster Gay.com and a handful of consumer websites), went public a little while back. Not the firs t queer company to go public in North America, but

November 3, 2005 1:09 PM

Gays, organized crime and Andre Boisclair

A substantial number of people go into journalism because we are insufferable moralists out to change the world into our own image, and you readers are stuck with what we want, agree or

October 19, 2005 5:12 PM

I'm shocked, shocked, I tell you

News flash! Mainstream reporters are freaked that homosexuals watch TV that's not all about their own private parts. "Gay TV survey defies stereotypes," reports United Press International. An American "study on the TV habits of gays and lesbians revealed

October 18, 2005 12:42 PM

Smile for the little birdie

We've truly arrived. Or at least, Ellen DeGeneres has. Her 1997 Time cover shot, paired with the simple phrase, "Yep, I'm gay," came in at number 37 in the top magazine covers of the last 40 years. This as declared by the American Society of Magazine

September 29, 2005 10:46 AM

The real joke

Independently wealthy media junkies will be pleased as punch-n-judy to discover the relaunched satirical Canucky Frank mag, which went bust under new management a while back (la grande histoire de Frank et moi est ici). 'Twas repossessed by former

September 27, 2005 2:54 PM

Don't it make you feel warm and happy?

Gosh but here's another heart-warming role model: "New Brunswick New Democrats have chosen an openly gay social activist and founder of the province's Morgentaler abortion clinic as their new leader," it sez here. "With a convincing first ballot victory

September 21, 2005 8:52 AM

Interlude

For those whose foreheads remain creased in puzzlement at the continuing messy lockout of staff by Canadian Broadcasting Corporation management, see this site dedicated to the adventures of Pedro, the locked out gnome.

September 16, 2005 10:00 AM

Egg, face, apply

Yadda, yadda, f*ck. Yadda, yadda, f*ck. The Montreal Gazette spelled it out for potty-mouthed ex prime minister Brian Mulroney, but ran a story on an Austrian town-with-a-name-starting-with-f'ing-and-followed-by-uhm-some-letters-or-other. Hee hee. Geddit?

September 15, 2005 9:52 AM

He's a close personal friend

Pierre Pettigrew is an idiot of a true democrat, or an idiot tout court. "The Conservative Party said yesterday it will try to force Foreign Affairs Minister Pierre Pettigrew to appear before a parliamentary committee to explain why his office spent

September 14, 2005 4:49 PM

The state of lesbian culture

Number of Curve Magazine covers that have featured "The L Word": three out of the last five. And one other that advertised a contest for a "free autographed 'L Word' script."

September 7, 2005 12:55 PM

[Back To School Week] Hushing those awful -isms

An American journalism professor (whose name I've misplaced, sigh) once said that rightwingers want to ban blasphemy and obscenity. Leftwingers want to ban every -ism they can think of. In short, everybody wants to stop you from saying what you may want

September 2, 2005 10:13 AM

The new refugees

I know New Orleans coverage is overwhelming. But. Looters are feeding people. And found here, "Disaster coverage 'feeds a demographic of grief junkies, who are tapping away at the remote control like a rat tapping for crack pellets,' added Matthew

September 1, 2005 10:13 AM

And they were sore afraid

Slate media curmudgeon Jack Shafer wonders if all reporters covering Hurricane Katrina are truly stupid: "Nearly every rescued person, temporary resident of the [New Orleans] Superdome, looter, or loiterer on the high ground of the freeway I saw on TV

August 25, 2005 3:22 PM

He wants a medal

Blah blah media representation. Media managers all too often justify their editorial decisions with the stupidest arguments on the face of the planet. Take the London Free Press, which in 2003 ran a front-page photograph of two men kissing to illustrate

August 18, 2005 1:57 PM

Outing some dead British guy

We're never going to find our way out of this outing mess, are we? "Former British Prime Minister Edward Heath is the latest public figure to die while rumors of homosexuality are omitted from their obituaries, according to some gay rights advocates,"

August 16, 2005 9:58 AM

Stop the presses, I wanna get off

An unmentionable has made it into the reporters' bible, "The Canadian Press Caps and Spelling" handbook. This CBC story says an "infamous four-letter word" has been added, but it doesn't say what word. I couldn't make this up if I tried. "[E]ditors

July 29, 2005 9:12 AM

Pigs are flying through the air

... because there is indeed a maximum number of near-nekkid lezzie pix with which British men can cope. Or... are the grumblies coming from women? "Posters for lesbian drama 'The L Word' have generated record amounts of complaints, with members of

July 29, 2005 9:05 AM

The F word

In a single headline, the Montreal French-language daily La Presse showcases its nerve: the word "fuck" looms large on today's front page. A medical clinic has been told by the city and the municipal transit company that it must mothball a safe-sex ad

July 28, 2005 10:01 AM

David, Goliath, et cetera

The tiny Winnipeg queer tabloid Swerve is having a go at Canada's monster media company, CanWest Global Communications Corp., over the rights to the gay publication's very name. Last November, the bigshots in Calgary launched an entertainment weekly

July 27, 2005 2:50 PM

Talk talk

I'll be interviewed tonight, Wednesday, on the queer Calgary radio show, "Heartbeat/Urban Sex." The host is Angus Goodkey, on CJSW 90.9 FM, 106.9 cable. At 9 p.m., Mountain time. Cheers! AND A REMINDER that the feedback section's been disabled temporarily,

July 25, 2005 1:07 PM

Officially, "Long" was about his height

Unofficially, I haven't heard. But musician Long John Baldry is dead. Asexually dead. That's right, so far I haven't seen a damned single obit that mentions Baldry's homosexuality. Mainstream reporters must think that it's bad to be gay. Mainstream

July 19, 2005 12:05 PM

My colonized newspaper

Fuck finesse, it's too hot for that. This morning's Montreal Gazette sez that Aaron McGruder's daily black strip Boondocks is coming to American idiot boxes in October. "No language policing in taking Boondocks comic to TV," the headline informs readers,

July 13, 2005 10:37 AM

Who's sorry now?

The first draft of The Listener's Guide to Canadian Queer Radio is up. And a note to all those agonizingly pained programming directors who apologized in the most pathetic tones for having zero gayness on the airwaves: Get a backbone.

July 8, 2005 8:28 PM

Survived by... ehrm... his mother

R&B legend Luther Vandross died on July 1 at 54. "The black singer who proudly declared that he would never don a 'blond wig' to achieve mainstream fame among white fans, nonetheless hid his own love life to placate his heterosexual female fan base,"

June 29, 2005 6:56 PM

Gosh, which word d'you think's most offensive?

Recall the first J.K. Rowling tome, "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone." At least, it was so titled everywhere in the world but the United States, where it was re-dubbed "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone." Because there was a word in the original

June 22, 2005 4:58 PM

Monday Report goes daily

Rick Mercer, comic, professional Canuck and mumble mumble mumble sexual orientation, has a new blog.

June 21, 2005 2:14 PM

Our media matters

Community media is essential, whether you're a model railroader, a foot fetishist or a retro T-shirt fan. So I have no patience for those who say the queer media is unnecessary. (Tired, maybe, but not useless.) I still want to know what's happening at

June 17, 2005 10:09 AM

That's Mister SissyPants, to you

"Although I am mellower in my Senior Discount Years, I still play this game with my editor which none of you readers ever get to see," confides Ben Williams, a columnist with the queer weekly Salt Lake Metro. "I capitalize the word Gay and my editor or

June 14, 2005 1:18 PM

Jonesing for more Jacko?

Poor you. From Michael Musto: "John Waters had sensibly told me, 'Whatever the verdict is, I'll be shocked.' It's so true. No matter what the outcome, I would have been screaming and throwing things." From New Yawk's Village Voice, "The case had more

June 8, 2005 10:59 AM

Perhaps the stats would look better if they were beaten after the smooching?

These numbers are from the June Genre magazine. Six: Number of gay male kisses that have appeared on network TV, ever. 61: Current percentage of TV shows that contain violence.

May 27, 2005 10:17 AM

The Christian discount

It makes cents to support your own. And the Defend Marriage Coalition's senior director, Dr. Charles McVety, has now made special arrangements for religious right-wingers who want to read mainstream news that makes them look good. From the website:

May 19, 2005 10:41 AM

Calling Belinda nasty names

First, a bunch of hurt and angry men called turncoat Belinda Stronach a prostitute and a whore. The Ontario MP dumped the Tories for the ruling Liberals and a Cabinet post, you'll recall. So of course the hooker analogy was everywhere. The problem is

May 18, 2005 12:41 PM

The search for the simple punch line

What to do with Aaron McGruder? He's funny, he's smart, he loves to pull off political scabs in his syndicated comic strip, "The Boondocks." Daily newspapers in the United States take turns pulling the cartoon because it's not "factual" (hello, it's a

May 17, 2005 10:33 AM

Stevie Cameron, #457

One final mention of the Stevie Cameron/Canadian Association of Journalists debacle: I resigned from the CAJ yesterday, and await a confirmation from executive director John Dickins. And this's the last post on this tiresome subject.

May 16, 2005 1:41 PM

Alien monsters and the reporters who love them

What is it with reporters in early sci-fi flicks? I've been having some fun with the VCR and the endless screen science fiction goofiness of the 1950s, and journalists feature prominently. A University of Southern California project, the Image of the

May 16, 2005 11:23 AM

Grumbly reporter stuff

Sadly, those members of the Canadian Association of Journalists who cared enough to speak out on the issue voted yesterday to stand by an 18-month-old press release that condemned reporter Stevie Cameron for allegedly being a police informant. (The sad

May 9, 2005 10:21 AM

Kiss me, you fool

The ailing Harlequin Enterprises Inc. needs to expand into lesbo romance. Then it might make more dough. Yes, Canada's Harlequin hetero snuggle publisher is less of a profit-hog than it used to be. It's owned by the Toronto Star conglomerate: "Torstar

May 5, 2005 12:13 PM

When girls kiss, when boys kiss

The queer Orlando, Florida, biweekly Watermark got into trouble when it featured two men "in a deep, closed-eyes kiss" on a Valentine's cover. Editor Dave Wiethop "said he opted to use a full-page photograph for the February Love Issue 'with a little

April 28, 2005 9:37 AM

Crabby docs and killer dykes

The May Out magazine notes that the U.S. version of "Queer As Folk" is in its fifth and final year (and my surprise exposes me as a non-watcher -- that

April 23, 2005 10:06 AM

Too sexy for the printed page

The Ryerson Review of Journalism has an interesting piece on the evils of the "hyper-sexualized" major gay media in Canada. There are some interesting things here, but this piece could have been so much more... it actually ends up sounding rather prissy

April 16, 2005 11:08 AM

If an extraneous girl's a beard, what's a boy?

From the May issue of Girlfriends mag: "Did anyone else spot sport columnist Ted Casablanca's insinuation that Jennifer Aniston's taste for the ladies caused her breakup with Brad Pitt? The E! maven predicts that her 'manic drive for anybody butch who

April 7, 2005 6:22 PM

Maybe I'll just read

The PrideVision/OUTtv gang have issued an entire press release saying that it's not their fault -- it's the very naughty cable companies' fault. "The OUTtv launch originally scheduled for today has been delayed to April 12th due to technical problems

April 7, 2005 10:22 AM

Lesbians really lust after men

When I subscribed to the biweekly French-language newsmagazine l'Actualite, the equivalent of Maclean's for Quebec, I was promised a bonus of two special issues. My freebies have just arrived, and one is a tourism guide to selected cities (including my

April 6, 2005 11:11 AM

It's PrideVision's last day on air... or is it?

Today was supposed to be your last chance to watch PrideVision. But of course, when things are bad, they're very bad: PrideVision can't even shut down on time. It looks like the new end of PV is now Monday, April 11. These folks are so confusing, I'll

April 2, 2005 4:55 PM

Remember yesterday? What a day it was

Those who missed April Fool's can get a good dose here of goofy faux media nooze.

April 1, 2005 10:12 AM

Lies, damned lies, and the lies we love to hear

Gossip columnists lie like rugs. They trade in fake news planted by publicists busily creating hetero lives for queer actors. That's part of the game of watching "Entertainment Tonight" -- guessing who's gay. Say Tom Cruise is a big old 'mo. His beard,

March 25, 2005 10:02 AM

Blacks get indigestion, too

Prime Access Inc. is a New York-based marketing agency specializing in "urban majority advertising," and company president Howard Buford has an interesting piece in the January Gay & Lesbian Review, in which he discusses gay and lesbian advertising and

March 23, 2005 11:01 AM

Ow, my head

I'm starting to think that homosexuality on TV has jumped the shark. I know I was impressed with all the homo stuff on telly sitcoms and dramas just two months ago -- but it's getting ridiculous. This week I can't turn on the set without getting fed gay

March 22, 2005 9:58 AM

Yes it is! No it isn't!

It's dueling press releases, as Canada's PrideVision denies that the American Q Television has made a purchase offer, and Q Television says it has. "'By acquiring Pride Vision, Q would be able to cut its expenses down on all of its programming costs,'

March 22, 2005 9:30 AM

The triumphant return of Rick Mercer

I love the idea of Ricky the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation television comedian. But here's a man whose hype has outstripped his talent. I started calculating his show's smile-per-minute ratio, and it just didn't warrant my time. Failed satire and

March 19, 2005 11:01 AM

U.S. company wants queer Canuck TV

The American Q Television Network wants to buy Canada's PrideVision. The Canuck channel is having all sorts of problems. Sigh. ADD ON [Sunday] Canadian broadcasting ownership rules can be found here.

March 14, 2005 2:13 PM

The L Word

Just a smidgen more fluff for the beginning of the week: The imperialist AmeriKKKan official "L Word" website is off limits to anyone with computer cookies that betray a foreign identity. "We at Showtime Online express our apologies; however, these pages

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