The times they are a changing

Music just isn’t the same as it used to be. But that isn’t necessarily a bad thing.
This is my take on new music and why it’s just as good as the music from the 1960’s.

Why should websites bother with reader comments?

And that after this is accomplished, and the brave new world begins/ When all men are paid for existing and no man must pay for his sins…
In the beginning, there were messageboards.  And messageboards were with the Internet, and messageboards were the Internet.
Then, as webpage design simplified and WYSIWYG templates advanced, came the glamour pages.  Flashing backgrounds, [...]

No hometown

Let me tell you a story about my hometown.
I don’t have one.
There’s more to it than that, so please, read on.

Molly Cormier’s family are preparing to move to Fredericton. Despite frequent moves across two provinces over the years, their close bond remains unchanged.

I feel this story is the most important part of my development [...]

Bathing suit season: are we fighting a losing battle?

Scene 1: I’m in a tiny, locked room. There are mirrors on all four walls, forcing me to examine myself from all angles. The overhead lighting is making my winter white skin glow and, oh yeah, I’m naked. No, this isn’t a torture scene from a horror movie, and I’m not a prisoner of war [...]

Goodbye to STU

So initially this piece was supposed to be a news story about the graduating class of 2010 and the 100th convocation at St. Thomas University.  But, while thinking about it last night, lying in bed, my long-suffering husband snoring gently beside me, I thought to hell with that!  This story is about ME!  I’m the [...]

Much ado about power

On March 24, New Brunswick Premier Shawn Graham stood before the Legislature and declared his $3.2 billion deal to sell NB Power to Hydro- Quebec was no more.
The deal fell apart the last few weeks while the two governments attempted to turn the deal into a legal document. Graham said the new requests made by [...]

Hockey… It’s all we’ve got

We’ve all seen it, and most of us have done it. We put on our Team Canada jerseys, paint our faces, wave Canadian flags and banners with beer in hand and a moose elegantly seated in our laps. A full-size live one, none of those pansy stuffed things. Hockey fever sets in at every world [...]

Women’s Studies gets last laugh in National Post editorial

I am standing in a room full of shadows. The faceless figures stare back at me, begging to tell their stories.
My eyes fixate on their shiny gold badges. The horror of their lives are written on their chests, marking them.
“Bludgeoned to death by her estranged husband in her apartment,” reads one silhouette. She is wearing [...]

Eh, Oh, Canada, No? New Olympic chant a bust!

Pepsi Canada has unleashed it’s newest campaign to get Olympic spectators to pop out of their seats. Eh, Oh Canada, Go, according to Pepsi, will be the new Olympic chant every Canadian will be screaming at the top of their lungs come February in Vancouver. The chant, making its debut during the World Junior Hockey Tournament [...]

Recipe for failure: charging for online news

The tone for the Internet has already been set. Free and fast. If your product is not, people will simply find somewhere else to get what they want. So this business model of charging for online news content is going to leave publishers looking like Enron.
Just yesterday, The New York Times told readers that ‘frequent [...]