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Words behind the chapel building

I remember when I dropped my first swear words. It was at Azusa Pacific University, during my freshman (and only) year. Ever the precocious child, my friends were all juniors and seniors, mostly those in the poetry-writing collective. We were our own bunch, enjoying only a little cross-pollination with the […]

Sweden vs. Russia World Junior Hockey Champs

From Russia with Love: Canada and the WJHC

I was reminded of the passion Canadians hold for the World Junior Hockey Championship on my flight from Toronto to Vancouver on January 5th. Although Canada was not playing in this year’s gold medal game, the plane was littered with yelps and muffled cheers in celebration when Sweden scored the […]

Top 10 Films of 2011

It’s easy to mistake 2011 as a weak year for cinema. After all, how else should one sum up a year that had few universally acclaimed masterpieces-in-the-making or zeitgest-altering blockbusters? A year that will likely lead to Michel Hazanavicius’s adorable, but inconsequential, The Artist nabbing the top prize at the 2012 Oscar ceremony? However, scanning over […]

Viral Buzz: Walk off the Earth

Before people start accusing me for hopping on the Walk off the Earth viral video bandwagon, I’d like to bring out the inner hipster and say this: I liked them before they were cool! This homegrown talented band from Burlington Ontario spread across the internet like wildfire after doing a […]