So, K-Days is back! That should settle all the problems that have beset the ex-Capital Ex. Well, not quite. The public has spoken, and K-Days is back as the name for the Edmonton exhibition. Personally, I think it is one of the least inspired name changes ever, since the K doesn’t represent anything in particular. […]
Monthly Archives: July 2012
Dear America: The events in the Aurora movie theatre are heartbreaking and shocking, and our hearts go our to the families of the victims, and the extended family that is the United States. Everyone in Canada is just sick about this. Just like you, we realize that there is little protection against a deranged person […]
I don’t normally become particularly excised over entertainment industry awards. They are what they are, with politics playing as much a role as performance. But something has to be said about the utterly baffling snub the TV academy has delivered to Parks and Recreation. The Emmy voters have seen fit to again shaft Parks and […]
Northlands is trying to get the public engaged in renaming its annual summer fair by holding a naming contest to replace the unloved title Capital Ex, which itself replaced the loved-only-by-old-people Klondike Days. The names that Northlands has offered up are a fairly uninspired lot, which is perfect considering that the ex-Capital Ex is a […]
The Edmonton arena project is having a hard time reaching its guaranteed cost of $450 million. Those of you who are surprised by this news, please raise your hand. OK, you, you, and you … I have a Nigerian prince who wants to speak to you. Something about an inheritance. Yesterday’s news that the arena […]
I am not a scientific person. I don’t understand how computers work, and I’m pretty sure that electricity is, actually magic. So all this news about the discovery of the elusive Higgs boson (that would be a great name for a soap opera character … Higgs Boson) has left me scratching my head. This could […]
