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Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason DVD review

REVIEW | Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason (Universal), with Renee Zellweger, Colin Firth, Hugh Grant. It wasn’t as good as the first film, but Bridget Jones: The Edge of Reason did well for a ...

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The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, review

BOOKS | The Unthinkable Thoughts of Jacob Green, review | Joshua Braff, Algonquin Books, 2004. Celebrity brothers are all over the place right now. Former Stand By Me star Jerry O’Connell’s ...

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Narnia is all about Jesus

CULTURE | Narnia is all about Jesus! You know The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe? That C.S. Lewis book you loved so much as a kid? Well, I hate to break it to you, but as Homer Simpson might ...

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Drinking games to try today

PLAY | Drinking games belong to the golden age of sport. They’re social, they require endurance, and best of all, they’re not about winning or losing, largely because everybody gets too ...

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R.I.P. Fantasy TV?

TELEVISION | Is fantasy TV dead? This is all Mark Burnett’s fault. Not so long ago, you couldn’t channel surf at primetime without seeing a big-headed alien or wrinkly-nosed vampire go by. Then ...

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Canada’s poo problem

ENVIRONMENT | Is there more poo in Canada than anywhere else in the world? Possibly. Look, Canada is a pretty great place to live. It’s relatively affluent, statistically healthy, and ...

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Stuart McLean’s Stories from the Vinyl Cafe (10th anniversary edition)

BOOKS | Stories from the Vinyl Café, 10th anniversary edition | PENGUIN Canada, 2005 Stuart McLean may look like a boring old dude from the CBC, but his writing is actually funny. Don’t believe ...

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What not to read: a listicle

BOOKS | Sometimes knowing what not to read is as important as knowing what you should. Particularly since the bestseller list can be deceiving. So what to read? Well, I write about books and ...

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How to have the laziest weekend ever

HOW TO | Get your lazy on. It’s just not right. Instead of spending our weekends doing as the good lord intended (you know, watching TV, playing video games, eating vast amounts of cheese), these ...

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Music consumerism and Starbucks

MUSIC TRENDS | Music consumerism and Starbucks. It’s a whole new world. All of a sudden Starbucks is to music like Oprah is to books. The coffee giant is brewing up more than Mocha Javas, ...

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How to get that big vacation feeling for less

TRAVEL | Budget travel tips for Canadians who can’t go far from home, but really need to get that big vacation feeling for less. I need a vacation. A holiday. A week on a secluded beach ...

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Welcome to Dose, a commuter daily posing as a “magazine”

WRITING for Dose | 2018: So as mentioned in previous posts, I was recruited internally from the Vancouver Sun to work at Dose in late 2004. The job started in early 2005. Basically, while I was ...