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Michael Moore’s much anticipated Sicko hits, and having seen it, we can say it’s not particularly essential for Canadian viewers to watch, unless you want to feel smug about our lovely health care system, or slightly surprised that it only takes an hour or so in London (Ontario) to be seen in an emergency room. Yes, the film is chock-a-block with anecdotal evidence, and it’s probably to the film’s fault that, as usual, Moore is selective with his anecdotes to only show free universal health care in a positively glowing light.

Those of us in the Cool Kids Club (honest, there are secret decoder rings and everything!) have been rocking out with Jemo for a few years already. The rest of y'all will get your chance when this solid bouncy-poppy-rocky trio does their thing this Thursday at Lee's Palace.

Torontoist has done it again. Not only did we accurately predict the fall of Communism and every U.S. President since Teddy Roosevelt, way back at the beginning of August we told you that Toronto’s own Lukas Rossi would win Rockstar:Supernova. That’s the show where American Idol meets Spinal Tap at CBGB, or something like that.

It was printed right on the tickets, but I guess the gravity of what “DRS 6” meant didn’t sink in until Saturday’s Wolf Parade concert was underway. Arriving with my friends close to seven, the band Holy Fuck was already into their opening set- which was odd, since Frog Eyes was supposed to be the supporting act. Maybe they had just added more acts to the bill, someone suggested. Of course, the fact that members of Wolf Parade were/are in Frog Eyes and that Wolf Parade opened their set with a brand new song only compounded the problem: it wasn’t until the second song of their set when the supposed Frog Eyes started playing a song from Wolf Parade’s debut LP “Apologies to the Queen Mother” that this was, um, Wolf Parade.

. It features Ex-Superfriendz front man Matt Murphy as a fictional, possibly departed, Canadian country star.