Monthly Archives: September 2010

For Riverdale actor Rick Miller, who plays Stumpy Sam in the Toronto International Film Festival flick The Legend of Beaver Dam, spending four hours in gore make-up to transform into the evil swamp monster "was tolerable for a few days." … Read more

Strange things are afoot in the Pacific Northwest. Actually, nine feet. With the discovery last week of a human foot on a beach in Washington state — the ninth found on the Pacific Northwest coast in three years — the … Read more

Hot: Margaret Atwood. Talk about stirring the pot. The Canadian literary icon’s simple act of adding her voice to an on-line petition protesting against a Fox News-like channel coming to Canada has sparked outrage among right-wing commentators. “This is not … Read more

Think it’s hard enough to arrange a dinner date? Try arranging 80 of them in 30 countries over a three-year period. That’s one of the struggles that Peter Menzel and Faith D’Aluisio faced while writing their book, What I Eat: … Read more

TORONTO – The Council of Canadians is going head-to-head with the Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan — a Goliath in the world of pensions — over investments in privatized water in Chile. As close to 20,000 Toronto teachers gather for a … Read more