This is horrid, grotesque, and truly bizarre. From the BCC… “A man on a Greyhound bus travelling across the Canadian Prairies has killed and decapitated a fellow passenger.” […] “When we came back on the bus… he was cutting the guy’s head off and pretty much gutting him up,” Mr Caton said. The attacker ran at them, Mr Caton [...]

Alcohol and small towns, always an eventful mix – and this time I’m not even talking about the show. In fact, the crowd last night was excellent. It was everything that happened after the show that was like an episode of Twin Peaks. First, right beside the bus two girls got into a full fledged [...]

During last night’s show in Barrie a physical altercation occurred in the audience forcing me to stop in the middle of Everything Is Automatic. When things of that nature occur, a lot of artists believe that it’s best to continue playing, but I’m not one of them. My reasons are very simple and straightforward. First, as [...]

A few random bits to start with today prior to delving into the Petreaus-Crocker debacle. First, congrats to my friend Claire Folwer who wrote her first blog entry in a year yesterday – for The Guardian. Second, a rather shocking occurrence in which a girl was assaulted while it was videotaped… Regarding The Recently Announced Calgary Date I realize [...]

It’s weird to think that I woke up in my own bed this morning but will be performing tonight in another city in another country. It’s only a 30-minute flight away, mind you, but it’s still strange. I took Nyquil at around 8:30 last night and went to bed. This meandering head cold is really, [...]

I’m going to go on a bit of a tirade, so prepare yourself. Let’s cut the shit and be honest - Muslims blow people up, right? Since September the 11th, and even preceding it, that has been much of the Western world’s perception. Since 9/11, Islam has been attacked by right-wing hacks the world over as [...]

There’s no questioning the fact that Israel’s ultimate goal in Gaza is to remove the Hamas led provisional government from power. Hamas doesn’t recognize Israel’s right to exist, which is, of course, an immense problem with regards to the ability to negotiate – that being, no one will meet with them, let alone negotiate with [...]

While the Israeli government looks into the legality of targeting civilian areas from which rockets have been fired into Israel, the Israeli Defense Force has claimed that of the 100 plus Palestinians killed in their recent incursion into Gaza, 90 of them were Hamas militants. During operations in Gaza’s suburbs, the IDF have been guilty [...]

In a surprising move after reports that Turkey’s offensive in northern Iraq would be sustained for the foreseeable future, Turkish forces began withdrawing yesterday in force. It shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone that the withdrawal occurred just after President Bush called on the Turkish government to end the offensive and a day after [...]

Two pops, to acoustic echoes, just around the corner someone was dead in a van. It’s the sixth homicide in town this year and we’re only thirty six odd days into it… “Vancouver recorded its sixth homicide of 2008 Friday when a man was shot dead while sitting in his van at the 300 block of [...]