Blog Archive

  • From the Photo Editor’s desk :: Finding light with the Lytics

    What it’s like walking into a location for a shoot with no idea what it looks like and getting more then expected.

  • Behind the Name “Talking Trash”

    Why I call my blog “Talking Trash” has to do with both my personality and my job before this.

  • Writing nothing for no one: tales from the world of SEO

    Ever do a Google search only to find that the first item links to a page that seems way too shitty to be the first thing to come up for whatever you just searched?

  • There is no vaccine controversy.

    It’s flu shot season, and that means it’s once again time for debate and discussion about the safety and ethics of vaccination.

  • From the Photo Editor’s desk :: What kind of editing gets done to photos?

    Every photograph gets some editing before it gets sent to the layout designer and I’ve had a number of people ask me what do you do and how much is too much. Hopefully this will give some insight.

  • What we can learn from this year’s presidential debates

    Save for some obvious drama and rhetorical outbursts that can only be found on American television, this year’s round of presidential debates between Barack Obama and Mitt Romney have revealed much about US democracy and its fragile state.

  • Talking Trash: the Harper Regime’s Transformation of Canadian Priorities

    Making sense of what I learned about the clamp down on DFO scientists from speaking the truth about research cuts and my own experiences as a public servant under the Harper regime.

  • Harvey Carlisle’s bi-weekly top-ten tracks to hear.

    You have no choice. Harvey Carlisle, the biggest third of the moon, the man that runs with wolves and flies with the geese has spoken. These are the tracks that Harvey’s Law demands you hear. I recommend you get started or else be prepared to duel with a god.

  • What is a community without art?

    Winnipeg as a creative hub, and what do people mean when they say they don’t like art.

  • Putting the wool and honey issue to rest

    What’s cruel about wool and honey? Time to settle this persistent question.

  • Talking Trash: Landlordism, Capitalism, and Canadian History

    What I find most troubling is the fact there is very little analysis of how landlordism is similar to capital exploitation in production. In both cases the means of existence are alienated from the citizen, worker or tenant. Landlords make profit off of the classes systematically dispossessed from owning land and property. Landlords gain profit while the poor are never able to purchase the lodging they rent. There used to be a revolutionary tradition of opposing landlordism as a system of exploitation that went alongside wage slavery as the two central ways of extracting resources from the lower classes. This tradition was eliminated by the reformist tendencies on the left in the rise to hegemony of social democratic politics.

  • Divison of Power #11 Portage Place needs to embrace community, tackle crime

    My recent article on the 25th anniversary of Portage Place Shopping Centre shed some light on the mall’s utter failure to fulfil its mandate. Despite hundreds of millions of dollars in public and private investment, it has not revitalized Portage Avenue.

  • Essential hip hop listening

    A list of foundational rap records.

  • Behind every story, five more

    A couple of weeks ago, I set off to meet a source for one of my articles downtown.

  • Harvey Carlisle’s bi-weekly top-ten records you must hear.

    You have no choice. Harvey Carlisle, the biggest third of the moon, the man that runs with wolves and flies with the geese has spoken. These are the records that Harvey’s Law demands you hear. I recommend you get started or else be prepared to duel with a god.

  • Five years of sobriety

    Five years ago this weekend, I quit drinking.

  • Division of Power #10 Free Press publisher responds to layoff questions

    Last week, I reported on the recent Winnipeg Free Press layoffs, which saw five of the paper’s most beloved reporters canned, along with two additional staffers.

  • We have more important things to worry about than pizza.

    Public Safety Minister Vic Toews has vowed to put an end to prison pizza parties and barbecues. Where are his priorities?

  • How I learned to love the bomb

    What George Orwell taught me about the internet.

  • Beer and identity: an informal study

    As a student whose field of study in no way involves such things as “statistics” or “quantitative research” or “the real world”, I’ve sometimes found myself resorting to alternative takes on the scientific process in order to answer the more practical questions in life. By this, of course, I mean silently judging those I encounter with the cold, cynical eyes of unverifiable criticism at all times.

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