Eric Grant 
Call me old-fashioned, but I like my royal weddings to be cold, loveless arrangements contracted solely to consolidate political power. If a guy gets to be King and still marries his college sweetheart, it makes the whole monarchy thing seem kind of dated. Still, some people are actually stoked about … Read More
The federal election looms, May 2. If you’re tired of the typical Green-Con-Lib-Newdem-Bloc options, there are fourteen other officially registered parties (who knew?). Here’s the first in a series of weekly quick-guides to help you separate the pranks from the cranks; how to best use, or abuse, your most fundamental … Read More
Gentlemen, a reminder: You still have time to plan an absolute show-stopper of a trick for April 1. The prank bar sits admittedly a bit higher in an era when false celebrity-death newsfeeds percolate through Twitter almost daily (*cough* #elizabethtaylor *cough*), and a link-worthy corporate fake-out constitutes a crowning achievement … Read More
When the green shoots of the “Arab Spring” first sprouted in Tunisia (in late 2010, despite the media-embraced “Spring” descriptor) and quickly spread to Egypt, Bahrain and Yemen, scattering seeds across the entirety of North Africa and the Middle East, one of the favourite games of international observers was to … Read More
Last week was not a good one for supporters of this country’s plan to purchase 65 F-35 Joint Strike Fighter planes (JSF). First, negative news surfaced on the JSF’s price, with Canada’s Parliamentary Budget Officer projecting that the total development purchase and maintenance costs could hit $30 billion — $12 … Read More
