YULblog : We've had a long love affair with our mountain
Unfortunately, no mention is made of the most popular urban legend these days : that, following the one million dollars spent to install fiber optic lights several years ago, the cross will turn purple when the Pope dies.meta
Leah McLaren : "Open Letters was conceived in the dark heart of last winter,
when Paul Tough met Ian Brown for a pint at the Munster Hall, a traditional English alehouse in downtown Toronto. The two journalists met to talk about ideas. Tough, a Toronto-born editor who cut his teeth at Harpers magazine in New York, had recently resigned from his position as editor of Saturday Night magazine and was in the process of deciding what do with the rest of his life -- or at least where to direct his energy after he packed up his desk. He told Brown, a freelance writer and the host of CBC Radio's Talking Books, about a project he had been mentally toying with for a while. It involved letters. A whole magazine of letters, in fact."meta
It's not as though no one else produces crap.
There's no shortage of it in Canada -- domestic, imported,
exported or otherwise. 
It's just that the
super-abundance of it in the States is truly staggering and
seemingly unmatched anywhere else in the world. The weekend
provided an opportunity to
visit one of big name monster supermarkets and I was amazed at
the ability to make so many seemingly different products from the
same basic components : plastic, corn syrup and food
colouring. Well, not really surprised, but the shock never seems
to abate. It's like this crap has evolved into a self-preserving
life-form and spawns new progeny -- or atleast new packaging --
right there on the shelf, in front of your eyes. see also : fresh
watermelon
It's just that the
super-abundance of it in the States is truly staggering and
seemingly unmatched anywhere else in the world. The weekend
provided an opportunity to
visit one of big name monster supermarkets and I was amazed at
the ability to make so many seemingly different products from the
same basic components : plastic, corn syrup and food
colouring. Well, not really surprised, but the shock never seems
to abate. It's like this crap has evolved into a self-preserving
life-form and spawns new progeny -- or atleast new packaging --
right there on the shelf, in front of your eyes. see also : fresh
watermelon
