Interviews
‘There’s a lot of spit and vitriol and anger’
Maclean’s Podcast: Paul Wells in conversation with Graeme Smith
The new Stephen Harper, safer than the old Harper
Paul Wells on the more reserved prime minister
Famed Julia Child editor Judith Jones on her new book, ‘The Pleasures of Cooking for One,’ and why she felt the need to write it
A conversation with Anne Kingston
Comedy From the Idiot’s Point Of View
I haven’t written much about The Jon Dore Television Show, now in its second season, but it’s doing well in the ratings, and is a fairly decent show of its particular type, though it’s not a type of show that I love to watch regularly. Dore, who created the show after his successful gig on Canadian Idol (oh, the CTV synergy!), plays himself as a complete insensitive moron who is nonetheless convinced that he is in fact a good, gentle soul striving to be better in a world that lets him down. Every week, he vows to learn more about some issue or cause, and does so through a mix of mockumentary interviews with real people; when he tries to carry out what he’s learned, he winds up doing things like holding a woman in front of him as a human shield.
End of the high school era
Parent-teacher interviews. If you break it down into three separate words, its meaningless. But when they’re all lined up in a row next to each other in the same sentence, these three words result in having all the people with the most power over your life together. In the same room. Talking about you. And after last week, it’ll never happen again. It’s hard to believe that there are only 10 weeks of high school left.