12 Years In Solitary Confinement
Two Men of Courage Mandela and Vanunu by MAIREAD MAGUIRE Last week the World’s political leaders stood united in admiration at the Memorial service in South Africa to honour the […]
Politics
Who Killed Phillip?
Who Killed Phillip? Is about my friend Phil Bearshirt. I wrote it in 1991 after he died. -Kathleen Yearwood Sometimes, rarely, art and politics get married and it’s perfect. Nobody […]
What’s Up With The Treasury?
Why is the Canadian Treasury Photoshopping Karl Malden onto our money? Cheap bastards.
50 Cent and Vitamin Water?!
Somewhere in America they love me – or at least they did one day last August when a writer for Earbits named Scott Feldman was given the assignment of reviewing […]
Goodbye Pork Pie Hat
Joni Mitchell’s process when she wrote the album Mingus was to hang with Charles Mingus and meditate about it afterward then write. Or at least that’s how I remember her […]
The Rich Will Move To The High Ground
I’m as surprised as the next guy to find myself singing songs which contain Holy Doodle in the chorus but he did write for Sesame Street once upon a time. […]
Harper’s Announcement Will Be Arriving Any Second About Homophobia
I was thinking about Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s quick announcement when Reteah Parsons committed suicide after being raped and then cyber bullied, said Harper then “…our hearts here go out […]
Baltimore
Nina Simone wrote amazing songs and propelled forward great songs by others. An honour for Randy Newman that she would record his music. It’s also one of the most likeable […]
Textbook Goebells: Conservative Communications Director
No suitable words for this piece of modern day Orwell which is the norm here in the great tar-sand-stained north since Harper got the big chair. The conservatives try to […]
80 Year Old Woman Tasered
The thing about being a parent and trying to explain cops to a kid is a modern predicament. You would like to indicate to a tiny person that cops have […]