Rick Mercer (previously of This Hour has 22 Minutes and Monday Report, now Rick Mercer’s Report) has apparently started up a blog. So far the entries have been every bit as sharp as his television bits, so this is great. Out of the 5 posts he’s made so far, my favourite is a tie between “Holy crap! They moved me to Tuesdays.” and “Jason Kenney: Marxist Leninist.”
So the show will now be called “The Rick Mercer Report.” I was going to go with “Rick Mercer’s Tuesday Report” but I don’t have the money to order new t-shirts at Christmas when they move us to Wednesday afternoon. Keep The Audience Guessing is our motto.
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Humour, Op-Ed
University of Ottawa Law professor Michael Geist has been covering the Canadian government’s path towards a DMCA-like copyright legistlation pretty thoroughly. Below is an excerpt from one of his recent postings…
Most telling, however, was the appearance of Canadian Heritage Minister Liza Frulla. The Minister picked her photo-op to discuss the bill. She didn’t pick a library or a school or a university lab or the National Arts Centre or any other place that would tie copyright to the concerns of Canadians. No, she did her interview from an HMV, the foreign-owned record store. That is the proverbial picture telling a thousand words about Bill C-60.
Ouch.
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Art & Media, News, Technology
CBC.ca is reporting that Bob Geldof has announced that a Toronto show has been added to the Live 8 concert series which aims to raise awareness about poverty in Africa. This is pretty neat. I’ll definitly consider going.
Gigs in Toronto, Tokyo and Johannesburg have been added to the burgeoning Live 8 event, in addition to a concert in Cornwall, England, spotlighting African music… Canadian organizers said they won’t be ready to release the information about the Toronto event until next Tuesday.
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Art & Media
“Want to know why your electric bill’s been soaring lately? No, it’s not because you’ve got the AC cranked at 68 degrees in response to this freaking heat wave that’s been hitting the Northeast. According to a recent study by the Natural Resources Defense Council it’s because of that ginormous TV set you just bought.”
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Technology
“According to some unnamed sources, [The Matrix Online] has been sold. To Sony. And except for 26 people, everyone’s been given their 60 day notice. That includes event staff.”
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Games & Leisure, Technology
The Sci Fi Channel has picked up the rights to Joss Whedon’s “space Western” — including three episodes never aired on TV — and will begin airing it Friday, July 22.
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Art & Media
