Category Archives: Journalism

It’s a mad, mad world

By caniceleung | Published: August 20, 2009
The following is an unabridged version of my column that ran in Metro on Aug. 20, 2009: There been times that I thought I couldn’t last for long But now I think I’m able to carry on It’s been a long, a long time coming But I know a change is gonna come The third season of TV series Mad [...]
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Locavorism at its purest and most insane.

By caniceleung | Published: March 23, 2009
Eating local is expensive and time-consuming, which is why this consumerist movement will not easily trickle down into mass society. It requires a willful abstinence from convenience and plenty, a core promise of the modern world. Our bountiful era is predicated on the division of labor: We don’t sew our own clothes, we don’t build [...]
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Oh, Sandy

By caniceleung | Published: August 14, 2008
Belatedly stumbled across this brilliant reviewin the July/Aug issue of the Atlantic: [Linda] Hirshman’s thumbnail review of recent feminist history [in Get to Work ... And Get a Life, Before It's Too Late] makes for prickly, entertaining reading. “Just over thirty years ago,” she rails, “the feminist movement turned from Betty Friedan, the big-nosed, razor-tongued moralist,” [...]
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Tweet tweet.

By caniceleung | Published: August 8, 2008
I’ve nearly abandoned this blog since I signed up for Twitter. There’s something so satisfying (especially for an anal-retentive self-editor who makes drafts of message board posts) to keep my inane thoughts to under 140 words. Also, after several weeks of nerve-wracking uncertainty (because I am also a compulsive planner that fears uncertainty in life most [...]
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Media watchdogs and all that

By caniceleung | Published: July 18, 2008
Today I found out I won third place in the Consumer Magazine: Investigations and Analysis category at the 2008 AEJMC awards for my Review story on Harvey Cashore. It’s nice to know people read my 6,000 word self-indulgent (me, not Harvey) opus on a then-unknown CBC journalist, yeah? Since then he’s been featured on J-Source [...]
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