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The new business as usual

I'll be maintaining this site as a place for whatever doesn't fit on the Maclean's site. I can imagine four possible categories of item: 1) the very strictly personal, 2) "meta"-type career updates when appropriate, 3) pure ephemera, 4) any material in ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  20 Nov 2009

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Colby Cosh: A complete assessment of Stephen Fry-gate

1) I realize I'm late to the party, but I didn't find out until today that the remark which made Stephen Fry melt down was that his tweets were "a bit boring." Really? Look, we all adore Stephen Fry, especially those of us who are ungainly, neurotic, ...

From COLBY COSH, National Post,  3 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Stephen Fry,  Vin Scully

Gather round, children

So it turns out the WCB hostage-taker was a really "nice guy", according to the people he lived with, but he had this habit of blaming other people for all his problems. "[I] had to resort to street drugs." Sure you did, buddy: everybody who has a bum ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  22 Oct 2009

Scratchin' my head here

So the Star travel editor wrote a list of "10 Things About Canada I Didn't Know", and the first item is that there was a war on Canadian soil in 1885 which is taught in every school, is recognized as a major turning point in Canadian political history, ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  13 Oct 2009

Seasonal content

My Edmonton winter rule is expect snow on or after Hallowe'en. Permanent or not, it's winter from that day. My Edmonton winter rule is expect snow on or after Hallowe'en. Permanent or not, it's winter from that day on. ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  7 Oct 2009

Our long national nightmare is over

Returning to the pages of the National Post tomorrow with a Roman Polanski column. I'm not sure how good it is! Consider it the equivalent of warmup pitches. TrackBack URL for this entry: http://www.colbycosh.com/cgi-bin/mt/mt-tb.cgi/496 This page ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  5 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Roman Polanski

Seriously, not one?

MC79hockey points out that J.F. Jacques, who is said to be pretty well guaranteed to make the Edmonton Oilers roster, has the worst offensive statistics of any young forward in the NHL since the 1920s. I.e., since before passing was legal in the ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  28 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Edmonton Oilers,  Tom Barrasso

Master builder or enemy of the people?

Do you suppose that Edmonton Mayor Steven Mandel has ever heard the name "Robert Moses"? By my count, and leaving aside the demolitions required by various LRT extensions, the mayor and his retinue now intend to dig up our downtown airport, blow up the ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  25 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Robert Moses

Spot news from dry country

We ran across this spectacle Monday night on our way to the Lloydminster bus station; it was close enough to home that my parents might easily have recognized the driver, but it wasn't anybody they knew. Doesn't look like much, but right now the lost ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  22 Sep 2009

Footnotes to today's Gretzky/ESPN column

[Which you can read here.] One of the most penetrating remarks made by any of Peter Berg's interviewees—and I can't even tell who made it—was that absolutely nobody at the famous press conference wanted to be there. Watching the tape again really ...

From COLBY COSH, ColbyCosh.com,  18 Sep 2009

Related Topics: Peter Berg,  Glen Sather,  Jim Balsillie,  National Hockey League,  Securities and Exchange Commission

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