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Canada

  • Blogs

    July 6, 2008

    Canada Day Rocks!

    Tens of thousands of Canadians flocked to Parliament Hill in Ottawa on July 1 to celebrate the country's 141st birthday. The revellers were mostly decked out in red and white - the color of Canada's flag. The Canada Day celebrations began with a military parade through downtown Ottawa. The ce ... More >>

  • News

    November 16, 2000

    Expatriate 2000

    Lowest one-way air fares from LAX, November 8, 2000, 12 a.m. PST

  • News

    September 5, 2002

    Letters

    Lowest one-way air fares from LAX, November 8, 2000, 12 a.m. PST

  • LA Life

    December 5, 2002

    Hi Hi, Birdies

    Lowest one-way air fares from LAX, November 8, 2000, 12 a.m. PST

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    Husband and Husband

    As real as any doggie or kitty wedding

  • Blogs

    November 11, 2008

    Interview: The Kids In the Hall Storm Vegas!

    This month, The Comedy Festival in Las Vegas returns to inject a major dose of comedy diversity into Sin City, rising above and beyond the mainstream standards for standup on the Strip. Amongst the biggest gets for the fest is the Vegas debut of Canada's sketch comedy icons, The Kids in the Hall; ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 27, 2008

    Annual Method Fest turns 10 ...

    ... looks to the Great White North

  • LA Life

    September 4, 2008

    The Illegal Has Landed

    One Mexican who doesn't give a caca about citizenship

  • Music

    November 27, 2008

    Beat Feast

    One Mexican who doesn't give a caca about citizenship

  • News

    March 19, 2009

    On War Resisters, Gay Marriage and the Grim Sleeper

    Plus, L.A. Weekly’s award nominees

  • News

    March 12, 2009

    Gimme Shelter: U.S. Military Deserters Once Again Flock to Canada to Avoid Iraq War

    Looks like this time they picked the wrong country

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    Ecocide

    Looks like this time they picked the wrong country

  • Columns

    December 16, 2004

    What’s That Sound?

    Looks like this time they picked the wrong country

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    Thunder From the North

    Looks like this time they picked the wrong country

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Just Deserters?

    Soldiers are singing 'O Canada.' Is it the beginning of a Vietnam-like trend?

  • LA Life

    June 21, 2007

    ¡Ask a Mexican! Canadian Edition

    In honor of my hometown Anaheim Ducks pounding on pussy Canadians to win the NHL Stanley Cup, I dedicate this week’s column to ellos:

  • Stage

    December 21, 2006

    Let It Snow

    Clown Slava Polunin’s very Russian carnival

  • News

    September 15, 2005

    All Eyes On New Orleans

    A look at what the rest of the world is saying

  • Music

    September 1, 2005

    Foghat Does Quaaludes, Wille Does Reggae

    A look at what the rest of the world is saying

  • Columns

    December 30, 2004

    Blood and Ink

    A look at what the rest of the world is saying

  • News

    December 9, 2004

    Oh, Yeah, Canada

    A look at what the rest of the world is saying

  • Stage

    August 12, 2004

    Electile Dysfunction

    When “south of the border” means America

  • News

    April 29, 2004

    A Kilo Full of Kryptonite

    Big Joe Bralic thought he was Superman. Then the Canadian tried to do a drug deal in L.A.

  • News

    December 25, 2003

    Our Big Fat Gay Year

    Big Joe Bralic thought he was Superman. Then the Canadian tried to do a drug deal in L.A.

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    Go Canada!

    Should American homosexual couples head north to elope?

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    Wedding-Bell Blues

    What’s love and the INS got to do with it?

  • News

    July 3, 2003

    White Lace and Health Insurance

    With all this talk of marriage, has queer politics gone soft?

  • News

    August 15, 2002

    Canadian Bacon

    Hollywood fights back on runaway production

  • News

    November 22, 2001

    Back to Business

    A new war gives new urgency to the globalization debate

  • Calendar

    July 12, 2001

    One Toke Over the Line

    Cannabis vs. the courts

  • News

    May 31, 2001

    Power Consciousness

    Diversions in the dark

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    Meaning of Life in Quebec

    The odd look of democracy

  • News

    April 26, 2001

    Naked in Quebec

    Why the three-day trade summit will fail

  • News

    September 23, 1999

    Letters

    Why the three-day trade summit will fail

  • News

    April 29, 1999

    Letters

    Why the three-day trade summit will fail

  • News

    July 16, 1998

    40 Bucks and a Dream

    The lives of a Hollywood motel

  • Blogs

    May 12, 2009

    Snoop Dogg's Medical Marijuana Card: Don't Leave Home Without It

    According to TMZ, Long Beach rapper Snoop Dogg chivalrously stepped into a potentially awkward situation at a Norfolk, Virginia hotel, when he claimed that a package of pot mailed from Canada to one of the Doggfather's crew -- was actually intended for him. Snoop then flashed his California medical ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 2, 2009

    Murder Was the Case: L.A. Homicide No. 142: Homeless Man Stabbed to Death in Hollywood

    A homeless man was stabbed to death on Canada's birthday, July 1, as he was waiting in line for food on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Vista Del Mar Street in Hollywood.  View Larger Map The victim, a male African American in his 40s, apparently got into a verbal altercation with a Hispanic ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 24, 2009

    Cry Me a Reverb

    A homeless man was stabbed to death on Canada's birthday, July 1, as he was waiting in line for food on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Vista Del Mar Street in Hollywood.  View Larger Map The victim, a male African American in his 40s, apparently got into a verbal altercation with a Hispanic ... More >>

  • LA Life

    October 1, 2009

    Keeping Up With the Lopezes

    A homeless man was stabbed to death on Canada's birthday, July 1, as he was waiting in line for food on the corner of Carlos Avenue and Vista Del Mar Street in Hollywood.  View Larger Map The victim, a male African American in his 40s, apparently got into a verbal altercation with a Hispanic ... More >>

  • Blogs

    January 14, 2010

    One Of Four City Hall Phone Lines Paid For But Unused

    ​It's not too surprising that a city that sends its mayor on a $120,000 trip to Europe during a mega-millions budget crisis isn't too thrifty when it comes to things like its telephone lines. But City Controller Wendy Greuel's latest audit is an eye-opener nonetheless: Among other things it fo ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 22, 2010

    Mochi Pizza? Japanese Pizza Chain "Strawberry Cones" Comes To San Gabriel Valley

    Saturday's grand opening in San Gabriel marked the formal arrival of Japanese pizza chain Strawberry Cones to the United States. Located in a mini-mall adjacent to the Hilton Hotel, the chain opened their first store in Sendai in 1983, and currently has 200 stores in Japan. International expansion f ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 26, 2010

    Top Chef Canada Coming Soon

    ​ If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement bring the hit reality ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 23, 2010

    HOME SWEET PRETEND HOME

    ​ If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement bring the hit reality ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2010

    HOW HIP-HOP ARE YOU?

    ​ If you were one of the countless people who went to Vancouver for the Olympics and stayed for the poutine, you're in luck. Top Chef Canada will be coming to a screen near you (well, if you're still in B.C.) next year. NBC Universal and Canwest have reached an agreement bring the hit reality ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 12, 2010

    The Second Monday In October In Canada: It's Thanksgiving, Eh

    Margy RochlinFarmer's Market in Vancouver's West End​ We have often studied the notation on our Day-At-A-Time calendars -- Thanksgiving (Canada) -- and wondered what the festival entails. As it turns out, it's a national holiday that lands on the second Monday of October and mirrors our nation ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 7, 2010

    Research Study Finds The Sight of Meat Calms Men Down

    SalSmilesStudy Finds Meat Calms Men Down​ Forget massages, soothing music or aromatherapy. If you want to calm down a stressed-out man, just show him a few photos of meat. Preferably just-cooked hunks of beef filet, lamb chop and T-bone steaks, still sizzling and etched with blackened grill m ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 20, 2011

    UPDATE: Rapper Game Detained in ... Canada? [DEVELOPING]

    Game's pain​ [UPDATE, 2:20pm: We just spoke with Patrizia Giolti at the Canada Border Services Agency. She explained to us that Canadian privacy regulations prevent her from releasing details about Game's detention unless he gives his express consent. She added that "what's being reported in t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 10, 2011

    Ecstasy Trade: 60 Percent More E Comes From Canada Than Mexico; Asian Drug Gangs Getting Smarter

    Cuteload from Canada.​Did you know that 1,460 pounds of ecstasy were confiscated by agents at the northern U.S. border between 2005 and 2009? Compare that to 24 measly pounds at the Mexican border -- barely enough for one day at the Electric Daisy Carnival -- despite hundreds of thousands of d ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 9, 2011

    Failure Makes You Bitter, Say Researchers at Concordia University

    ​Attention struggling writers, actors, dancers, singers -- and anyone else foolish enough to take on a career that inevitable leads to waiting tables on Melrose -- this one is aimed at you: Constant, unrelenting bitterness can make you ill. But not just any bitterness, mind you, the strain that ... More >>

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