The Crime Traveller

The aftermath of the recent attempted bombing by a Nigerian national of a Christmas-day Northwest airlines jet bound for Detroit is as predictable as it is nonsensical.  Here is what is known so far. Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, a Nigerian national who had publicly expressed his support for the Taliban and Al-Queda in the wake of Sept. 11, [...]

Due to persistent spamming, the comment rules have been adjusted for this blog. While I absolutely want to encourage dialogue on the site, it doesn’t serve anyone to have pages hijacked by stealth spammers. Therefore, from this point forward a user’s first comment will be held pending moderator approval. Once approved, the user will be [...]

Of the many apps one can use to destroy our collective productivity, the one that gets me most excited as a travel writer is Facebook’s Where I’ve Been. This handy application appeals to the collector in all of us turning the planet into one giant treasure trove and encouraging us to,in the immortal works of [...]

Say what you will about the Olympics.  It’s big.  Bloated.  Corporate.  Shamed by drug scandals.  Unnecessary.  Inconvenient.  A financial boondoggle.  I’ve heard them all and I can’t help but agree with many of the criticisms levelled at this quadrennial event. And yet… …today, standing in the shivering cold on a nondescript stretch of Yonge St. [...]

With no fanfare (not even an e-mail!?) Olympic ticket-holders were assigned their seats today.  For those of you with Vancouver 2010 tickets, you can now log in to your VANOC ticketing account and view the exact location of your heretofore undisclosed event seats. I’ll be peering down from Grouse Mountain-like heights during my two Victory Celebrations [...]