Eleven Canadians living in the United States celebrate Canada Day by telling the New York Times what they miss about Canada. Moneyquote: We call our dollars loonies because the coin has an image of a loon in flight. Another old bird, the Queen of England, is on the other side of the coin. I remember singing “God Save the Queen” every morning in school. “Long live our noble Queen!” we belted, thousands of us tubby little obedient Canadians. I guess it worked. She’s still alive. (Rick Moranis) Unlike many of her generation, the late Cape Breton Post writer Eleanor Huntington, who died...

01 July, 2009

New York artist Mairia Kalman gets a jump on American Independence Day with a visit to Monticello, home of Thomas Jefferson, a Founding Father whose brilliant contributions to democracy are honored mostly in the breech. The New York Times published her multimedia account today.  Hat tip: Sarah Cooper-Ellis. If you want to understand this country and its people and what it means to be optimistic and complex and tragic and wrong and courageous you need to go to his home in Virginia. Monticello...

26 June, 2009

After Newspaper Guild members narrowly rejected a voluntary pay cut to save the financially troubled Boston Globe, the New York Times Co., which owns the Globe, announced it would unilaterally cut salaries at the paper by 23 percent. So editorial cartoonist Dan Wasserman cut 23 percent of this morning's cartoon. ...

10 June, 2009