Looking back at the remarkable documentary "Out of the Shadows" (1957), an unusual effort from industrial filmmaker Lew Parry (1905-1993). It depicts the day-to-day life of a homeless alcoholic on Vancouver's Downtown Eastside. movingimagesweb.wordpress.com/2018/12/02/c...
Tomorrow, Kaye Kaminishi will celebrate his 102nd birthday. He is the last surviving member of Vancouver's storied Asahi baseball team. My profile of Kaminishi for TheTyee.cathetyee.ca/News/2022/01...
Kaye Kaminishi, 100 years old, is the only surviving member of Vancouver’s legendary Japanese Canadian baseball team.
My Globe and Mail obituary of Dean Crawford (1958-2023), rower who won Olympic gold medal for Canada at 1984 Olympics. www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-victoria-rower-dean-crawford-won-gold-in-upset-victory-at-1984/?utm_source=dlvr.it&utm_medium=twitter
Here's hoping you all got lots of books under the tree!
Has *anyone* in US media done any reckoning or self-reflection about the fact that they got caught up in a bogus moral panic driven by big retailers? Will anyone do anything differently the next time around?
Politicians and the press bought into the panic over organized shoplifting, but the source of the alarming statistic now admits that it was a lie.
My Washington Post op-ed is up. You'll never guess what it's about. www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/202...
My very minor status as an authority on Hitler comparisons stems from having coined “Godwin’s Law” more than three decades ago.
Trade magazines were at the heart of Jessica Mitford's famous exposé of the funeral industry, "The American Way of Death."
My Globe and Mail obit of George Chin (1929-2023), hockey player invited with two brothers to Toronto Maple Leafs training camp in 1944 www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/article-high-scoring-hockey-player-george-chin-was-part-of-famous-chin-line/
