Happy Family Day! Happy, that is, unless you're part of the seemingly endless parade of business owners, executives, police officers, parents, people who have to work today, cynics, bitter old men, or plain old ne'er-do-wells in general who believe that Family Day is going to ruin life—and, more importantly, the economy—as we know it. Well, buck up, kiddo. It's just not that bad. Just how curmudgeonly do you have to be to focus your......

It’s not been a week since the Toronto International Film Festival left us, and this week’s new releases make it hard for us to move on despite a couple of TIFF premieres leading the way. We’ll start with Paul Haggis’ In The Valley of Elah, because he’s a good Canadian boy…or is he? It’s interesting to note that in the interviews with him in the weeklies about this film (a "murder mystery" about a......

This overcast day brings us a neat piece from The Star, about dueling shmata kings and their suspiciously similar ad campaigns. It seems that despite dissing the porno-esque American Apparel campaigns, Roots manuveured their ads to look just as much so. These high-priced t shirt purveyors confuse us to no end. The Americans come North, and set up a shop that trades on Canadian sweats, even outfitting our Olympic team. And then the Canuck goes......