Gary Taxali on a Coin

Canadian currency is on the up and up these days, and now, artist Gary Taxali has collaborated with the Royal Canadian Mint to create “edgy, vintage yet contemporary” coin designs. Look at the happy maple leafs! Read more »

The 365-Day Time-Lapse Pinhole Photo Is Ready Now

The shutter of Michael Chrisman’s pinhole camera was open for 31,536,000 seconds – all of 2011. A black box mounted was “secured” with tape and brick onto a rusty shipping beacon in Toronto’s Port Lands on January 1, 2011 and retrieved on New Year’s Eve. There’s your money shot. Read more »

What first appeared as a crinkled Caucasian geezer turned into a young Asian guy mid Hong Kong to Vancouver flight last week. Is Harmony Korine renting out his prop closet to sneak in Chinese “political refugees” now?

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‘Skull World’ Box Wars Doc Reigns

He’s a blue-collar gravedigger by day and Skull Man by night, when he turns into a bloodthirsty cardboard-combat cannibal. This is a fresh trailer for Justin McConnell’s Box Wars doc Skull World and it looks like fun. Read more »

Horror Filmmaker on Trial for Obscenity in Montreal

Why is Remy Couture being tried for moral corruption in Canada, land of Cronenberg? His graphic shorts were pulled from the web since being investigated for complaints of suspected child murder and necrophilia, but you can clearly see that it’s all latex and fake blood in the “making of.” Read more »

The first US electric highway will be equipped with charging stations and will connect Portland and Canada. Somehow, that just makes perfect sense.

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Serbian Subversive Cinema Comes to Montreal

This year’s Fantasia Film Festival brings a bundle of Serbian films to Montreal. Featuring: our previously previewed picks — the rural XXX cabaret of Life and Death of a Porno Gang and everyone’s favorite newborn-raping snuff star in A Serbian Film — and more. Read more »

Dirty Jeff Koons, Dead Animals and Nazis Are 18+ in Canada

Unless you have a strong tolerance for gross/corny, looking at a plastic Jeff Koons getting nasty isn’t recommended for any age group. To see it at Canada’s National Gallery, you’ll need ID proving you’re 18 or older. Read more »

Peaches Stars in Indie Film

Peaches just starred in ‘Ivory Tower,’ an indie flick filmed in Toronto with a bunch of fellow Canadian musicians. The electroclasher/nether-bits-waver is Marsha — the tip of a love triangle between two chess players, played by Tiga and Chilly Gonzales (that one invents “jazz chess.”) Musician Chilly Gonzales, who previously worked with Gainsbourg, will help Adam Traynor direct. Peaches’ former roommate Feist also stars. Sounds circlejerkey.

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Won’t You Watch A Video Featuring People Pissing In Public?

Of course you will—you’re fucking animals. Relieving themselves are: businessmen, construction workers, even women! And they’re all Canadians! Uncouth Canucks. Is it an ad for public toilets? No, but It probably should have been. Read more »