Results tagged “theonion”

We Torontonians like to complain how the Blue Jays and other Canuck franchises never seem to get their due from the Americans, so it’s nice to know that The Onion, the continent's most venerable fake news source, is paying attention.

Say what you will about The Onion's image-locating techniques: they are still the best parody news entity in the universe (be it online or in book form with titles like Our Dumb Century or their yearly Ad Nauseam compilations). Good news, then, if you like both The Onion and vast, sweeping generalizations about entire groups of people: there's now an Onion atlas!

Many of you may remember 25-year old Jason Jones, who was on the front page of the Toronto Star last February as a graphic indictment against "the miserable state of dental care for our working poor." The resulting outcry led to demands that the indigent and working poor have better access to dental care. Jones' story had a happy ending: offers poured in from readers to help pay for the dental work he desperately needed,...

If you're into the idea of kids with bigger, shinier brains and programs that facilitate such things, you might be familiar with Now Hear This!, Toronto's very own not-for-profit literary outreach organization. With a mandate of education through the arts, they do good things like hold Satire and Fake News Writing workshops for kids, complete with handouts from The Onion. Kind of idealistically akin to Dave Eggers' ass-kickingly progressive nonprofit, 826 National.

Texas is thawing, the Northeast is freezing, and a sort of natural order seems almost restored to the Ist-A-Verse. Almost.

The always sharp-eyed J. Kelly Nestruck found out that Paul Martin has been moonlighting as a Caltech physicist. Well, according to the Onion anyway.