March 2010
'Battlefield Earth' screenwriter apologizes to... →
J.D. Shapiro, who penned Battlefield Earth, which recently earned the dubious distinction of winning a Razzie for being the decade’s worst film, has taken to the pages of The New York Post…
Sesame Street vs. Lady Gaga's Telephone →
Every so often, a clip surfaces that validates the Internet’s existence. The above two-minute mash-up between Sesame Street’s “Yip-Yip” aliens and Lady Gaga’s new single, …
Contest Day 7: Last chance to win VIP passes to LG... →
LG Fashion Week has arrived in Toronto.
This is your last chance to win
a pair of VIP passes for Wednesday, March 31 or Thursday, April 1. Get on your e-mail, now!
These
VIP passes give…
Hugh Segal: We need guns — and butter too →
Challenges faced by G-8 finance ministers a year and a half after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers Bank are not getting easier. Populist feeling is running against Wall Street and its analogous…
Don Martin: Liberals put their hope in the Easter... →
Discussions at the Liberal’s three-day Deep Thinkers Summit were thoroughly depressing - which means the conference was successful as an academic exercise and a probable failure as the…
Recap: The Amazing Race 16, Episode 7 →
By Scott Stinson
Recap: Are we ready to see Brent and Caite be tossed from the race? Yes, yes we are. Caite was a sympathetic figure in the early going, because how could you not feel sorry for…
Terence Corcoran: Hello, sweetheart. Get me... →
Bank of Canada has no business in the productivity work of corporations
By Terence Corcoran
B ank of Canada Governor Mark Carney is a connaisseur of fine philosophical…
'Dragon' vanquishes 'Hot Tub Time Machine' to... →
Reuters
LOS ANGELES — Animated 3-D family movie How to Train Your Dragon slayed audiences this weekend, ousting Alice in Wonderland from its three-week run at the top of the North…
Sniff Test: Dare Me by Kimora Lee Simmons →
Kimora Lee Simmons’ successful Baby Phat clothing line has spawned a family of fragrances (including Fabulosity, our very first Sniff Test). Simmons designs, she tweets and now…
Tasha Kheiriddin: Liberals, please think harder →
This weekend’s Liberal thinkfest in Montreal is shaping up to be a classic case of big ideas running up against cold realities. Speaker after speaker at this event dolefully warned of a…
Contest Day 6: Win VIP passes to LG Fashion Week... →
LG Fashion Week has arrived in Toronto.
Win
a pair of VIP passes for Wednesday, March 31 or Thursday, April 1.
These
VIP passes give you exclusive access to the show venue for great…
John Mraz: Liberals strive to be heard over sound... →
Saturday’s unifying theme atthe Liberals’ Canada150 get-together seemed to be fear. Pensions, deficits, and carbon taxes are topics that can rattle the most seasoned politician’s nerves, and open…
George Jonas: Censorship and satire →
The Roman poet Juvenal remarked that it’s hard not to write satire. Things have gone downhill since then. By now it’s hard not to write slapstick comedy. Take this week, which began with a…
John Mraz: Liberals put their thinking caps on →
Rolling down the Highway of Heroes with Montreal in our sights, we could almost taste the smoked meat. At least that’s what we were thinking about. Policy conventions - even when they’re dubbed…
National Post editorial board: New thinking on... →
For decades, Canadian political leaders have been wrestling with the question of how to help Canadian native reserves, many of which resemble Third World countries in their rates of substance…
Tom Flanagan, Christopher Alcantara and André Le... →
An old and recurrent fantasy about American aboriginal peoples is that they had no conception of property. Christopher Columbus got the impression that “in that which one had, all took a share,…
How to grow a patron →
In Saturday’s National Post we look at how cultural institutions are trying to attract a new generation of members.
“I honestly think that you could go to virtually any arts and culture…
John Moore: How old-school intolerance became the... →
Canadians have at long last found something they like about Quebec’s provincialism.
For years, the province’s obsession with preserving not only its language but also the purity of its people…
National Post editorial board: Benjamin Netanyahu... →
We’ll admit that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is overplaying his hand on the issue of new construction in East Jerusalem. With just about the whole world howling for him to throw the…
Full Comment Podcast: Ann Coulter comes to Canada →
26/03/10: American right-wing pundit/comedienne Ann coulter went to London, Ont., Ottawa and Calgary this week and made a lot of people very, very angry. Post columnists Kevin Libin…
Rex Murphy: The Ann Coulter show, and what it... →
More flamboyant than an airport tantrum, more durable than prorogation — it’s the Ann Coulter tour. The Coulter tour — three Canadian speeches, only two of which were actually given —…
Robert Fulford: Mistakes were made. Boys were... →
In his recent letter to Irish Catholics, Pope Benedict XVI remarked that one cause of the sexual-abuse scandal was a fear of scandal itself. “A misplaced concern for the reputation of the…
National Post editorial board: Leave your lights... →
Earth Hour starts tonight at 8:30 p.m. EST. The event, which began in 2007, calls for everyone in the world to turn off their electric lights until 9:30 p.m., to raise awareness of climate change….
Contest Day 5: Win VIP passes to LG Fashion Week... →
LG Fashion Week hits Toronto, March 28 to April 1.
Win
a pair of VIP passes for Wednesday, March 31 or Thursday, April 1.
These
VIP passes give you exclusive access to the show venue for…
Conrad Black: This, too, shall pass →
The molestation allegations against the Roman Catholic Church not only have horrified all reasonable people, but have been seized upon by the Church’s enemies to flay it to perdition….
Mindfulness over market matters →
Sickly start for health care →
Shale gas the new green issue →
Hello, sweetheart. Get me productivity →
GMAC in good position →
Fox cancels 24 on TV; movie in the works →
The Fox TV network on Friday stopped the clock on its action
adventure series 24, ending one of its most successful dramas as
ratings began to slip in its current, eighth season.
The final,…
Gary Clement's Week in Review March 21 to March... →
It was a busy week in news land. Joe Biden had some feelings on U.S. health-care reform. Stephen Harper released some documents. The Pope did some explaining. Israel and the U.S. put a…
This week's snap judgments: Facebook's GNHI,... →
We’re happy to see … That Emma Thompson has bounced back from her separation from Kenneth Branagh. Kidding! She took a pig to the London premiere of Nanny McPhee and The Big Bang,
the…
Don Martin: Liberals bring out the dead in search... →
‘I’d bet 90 per cent of those in this audience think a
double-double is four shots of single malt Scotch and not a Tim Hortons
coffee order’ With an almost audible door creak, the…
"We can just Photoshop it”: How graphic design... →
By Daniela Andrews “Power to the people.” Ironic words from iconic designer Bruce Mau’s Incomplete Manifesto for Growth, since these days, it seems that the power of design has…
Recap: FlashForward, season one, episode 13 →
By Chris Knight, National Post
Much less happening in this episode, compared with last week’s two-hour information dump. We see FBI agent Janis Hawk taking prenatal vitamins and visiting a…
Improbable Partnership of the Week: American... →
American Apparel is a brand known for its provocative advertising and even more provocative founder, Montreal’s Dov Charney. Sesame Street, on the other hand, is more famous for its plush…
Terry Glavin: Ottawa's Afghanistan merry-go-round →
Yesterday in the House of Commons, the question of Canada’s commitments to Afghanistan after 2011 came up once again,
and once again, Canadians were left knowing less about the answer than
they…
Neil Hrab: Washington wanted Canada too →
Ann Coulter suggested in Calgary this week that the U.S. should annex “everything from Calgary west.” George Washington had the same idea, though not specifically with Calgary in mind:
If you…
Airport workers ogle body scanner shock →
Gee, who would have ever thought this would happen: LONDON (Reuters
Life!) - A security worker at London’s Heathrow Airport has received a
police warning and faces disciplinary action over…
Food Quarterly coming in this Saturday's National... →
Bonnie Stern serves up a feast worthy of Easter and Passover. We
also ask where did all the chocolate bunnies go? All this and more from
our food writers in Saturday’s National Post and on our food…
Graeme Hunter: Coulter exposes Ottawa's Shame-On U →
‘It is difficult to have anything but contempt for weaklings who crave
an intellectually “safe” environment in which nobody’s feelings are
ever disturbed.’
Universities don’t get much free…
Kelly McParland: Harper picks Pat Burns in photo... →
While Michael Ignatieff was in Montreal today, preparing for the Liberals’ big weekend Thinkfest, Prime Minister Harper was not far away at Stanstead, near Quebec’s border with Vermont.
The Liberal leader has gathered an array of deep thinkers with whom he plans to commune for three days, brainstorming ideas on a national agenda in advance of Canada’s 150th birthday in 2017.
Obama's message to Netanyahu: My way, or the... →
Nicolo Machiavelli, that wily Florentine diplomat, always insisted personal negotiations between heads of state were fraught with peril. If matters went awry, at least one of the…
Barbie & Me: a DIY stylist project →
I got a play-date invitation from Barbie® a few weeks ago. She wanted me to join her exclusive club of ‘influencers and fashion icons’ and personalize one of her Barbie Basics™ dolls in…
Lost vs Saul Bass: If 'Lost' was made in the 60s,... →
If you know graphic design, you know Saul Bass.
From creating the AT&T logo, to his legendary title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger’s The Man With The Golden Arm and Alfred Hitchcock’s…
Chris Selley's Full Pundit: Banning the burka, Ann... →
Hérouxville
wins the day In
which the pundits argue passionately, and eloquently, on the
incredibly important topic of what 25 (twenty-five) Quebecers are
wearing. The
Ottawa Citizen…
Steven Edwards: Osama blocks Khalid Mohammed's... →
It must be torture for a true jihadist to commit to becoming a martyr – then see your boss insist your life be saved. Khalid Sheik Mohammed appeared to be quite the obliging enemy when he…
Matthew Harrington: Coulter subjected to hecklers'... →
The
cancellation of a speech by American author Ann Coulter by the
University of Ottawa reveals a disturbing new trend in political
correctness on North American university campuses….
Kick Some Past: Recapping our coverage of 'Hot Tub... →
Some people are very excited about the release of Hot Tub Time Machine, which stars John Cusack, Craig Robinson and Chevy Chase in a film about a hot tub that goes back to the 1986.
To…
