September 2012
** Needles in Prisons Debate ** Should I Read It: Rowling's The Casual Vacancy ** Google and Free Speech ** Embassy Roomies ** The South...
J.K. Rowling, author of the uber-successful Harry Potter series, has fans flocking to buy her new book The Casual Vacancy this week. It's her first book...
Friday, September 28, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
This week, a former inmate named Steven Simons and four HIV/AIDS advocacy groups filed a lawsuit against the federal government for failing to provide...
Friday, September 28, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
The Master has a tremendous buzz right now, much of it due to the film's echoes of the Scientology story and its leader, L. Ron...
Friday, September 28, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Google fought a Brazilian court this week over posted video criticizing a mayoral candidate. The company says it's free speech. The judge say it breaks...
Friday, September 28, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Author Chuck Thompson makes a controversial argument for dividing up the USA along old familiar lines in his new book, Better Off Without 'Em: A...
The federal government announced this week that Canada would be sharing space with the United Kingdom in embassies in Haiti and Burma and possibly elsewhere...
Riffed From The Headlines is our weekly news quiz. Listen to the three short musical clues, put them together, and name the news story that...
Wednesday, September 26, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Review copies and details about J.K. Rowling's first book for adults are under lock-down. But our regular books reviewer Becky Toyne will get her hands...
Damien Echols and Life After Death, The Demand to See Kate Middleton Topless, Romney's Gaffe Doesn't Matter, The Fall TV Season is Lame, Lining up...
Friday, September 21, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Damien Echols is a member of The West Memphis Three, a trio of teenagers convicted of murdering three boys in 1993. They denied the charges,...
Friday, September 21, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
There's a lot of talk around Mitt Romney's secretly-recorded fundraising speech from last May. In it he says 47% of voters think they're victims, entitled...
Friday, September 21, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Despite Royal attempts at barring further publication, topless photographs of the Duchess of Cambridge keep surfacing. And many people keep sneaking a peek. Seems we...
Friday, September 21, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
The new fall television season is upon us and the early reports are underwhelming, so we've assembled a crack team of TV critics to talk...
NHL lockouts do not spell happy times for hockey fans across the country. Here are Day 6 contributors Simon Pond and Aaron Hagey-Mackay with their...
Thursday, September 20, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
In Jonathan Lethem's futuristic story "Gun with Occasional Music" they no longer play the news on the radio. Instead they play musical interpretations of the...
Thursday, September 20, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Ryan Williams lined up for the new iPhone 5 a full week early. He set himself up in front of the Covent Garden Apple store,...
On this weekend's show, Brent speaks with Damien Echols of The West Memphis 3 about his new memoir, Life After Death, and documentary, West of...
** Embassy Attacks End Arab Spring? ** Chris Kluwe, Homophobia and the NFL ** Vertical Farms ** Calling John Baird ** Hollywood Electronica ** Zaltzman's...
In a searing and profanity-laced open letter that went viral this week, Minnesota Vikings punter Chris Kluwe lashed out at Maryland state delegate Emmett C....
Friday, September 14, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
This week, an angry mob stormed the U-S consulate in Benghazi, Libya, resulting in the death of the American ambassador Chris Stevens. The mob's wrath...
It's only September, but you're forgiven if you're already getting tired of the North American media's wall-to-wall coverage of the US Presidential campaign. For an...
Friday, September 14, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Climate scientists will tell you droughts and other extreme weather events is the new normal. One way or another, farming needs to adapt to a...
More and more often, Hollywood producers are turning to electronic music artists to punctuate movie soundtracks and score their films. So is it just a...
Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Zizek is a rare public intellectual with a huge popular following, and some of Zizek's views on the world are on display...
Iran shut down its embassy in Ottawa and left the country on Wednesday, after Foreign Affairs minister John Baird gave the diplomats the heave-ho last...
"Riffed From The Headlines" is our weekly news quiz. Listen to the three short musical clues, put them together, and name the news story that...
** Finding Joy in U.S. Politics ** Iranian Embassy Shutdown and Jailed Canadians ** Quebec and Other Independence Movements ** Hanna Rosin and The End...
Friday, September 7, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Now that Canada has shuttered its embassy in Tehran and kicked out Iranian diplomats from Ottawa, what happens to the Iranian-Canadians currently languishing in Iranian...
Since the start of the U.S. campaign cycle, political reporters have bemoaned the hostility, the utter joylessness, and the lack of big ideas from the...
Thursday, September 6, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Have you won yourself a Day 6 tote bag yet? Here's your chance. Guess the news story that links these three song riffs and email...
Thursday, September 6, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Separatism wasn't exactly the centerpiece of the PQ campaign but it was an issue. Of course Canada isn't alone when it comes to regions that...
Thursday, September 6, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Cambodian authorities say they will deport the co-founder of the massive file-sharing site The Pirate Bay. Gotfrid Svartholm Warg was arrested in that country late...
Thursday, September 6, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Hanna Rosin, Senior Editor at The Atlantic, writes that women hold the majority of jobs, have more college degrees and dominate the fastest growing professions, while men...
Too soon? Day 6 contributor Kathleen Phillips makes an impassioned plea to be allowed to have fun on her birthday this September 11th....
Tuesday, September 4, 2012 | Categories: Day 6 Blog |
Credit rating agency Moody's lowered the European Union's credit outlook. What they once considered "stable"is now "negative". They point to the shaky economies of Britain, France,...
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