Comments on: Big, popular Canadian blogs?

By: Rich

Rich — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 20:28:28 +0000

Oh, don’t worry, so do I! I rewrote that a few times over here and on Ask Metafilter but I wasn’t sure that the alternatives would get across the kind of thing I was looking for. I specifically didn’t want people to tell me about their brother-in-law in Saskatoon; I wanted to know about the online equivalent of the sorts of things that get called “A-list” but are American-centric.

And yeah, I read about Canadian current events and culture offline too, but mostly magazines like The Walrus, Geist, and Maisonneuve — I just felt like I might be missing out on good online Canadiana. Books and magazines I know;

By: fimmtiu

fimmtiu — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 19:48:49 +0000

What should I be reading?

A book?

Sorry, I just have this reflexive twitch whenever I read the phrase “A-list blogger”.

By: roy

roy — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:47:04 +0000

The Kitchen Geek is the only Canadian blog I can thing of off-hand.

By: dossy

dossy — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 16:31:36 +0000

I've just discovered a new Canadian blogger, Samantha Burns. Could be another Kottke, if we're lucky.

By: dagbrown

dagbrown — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 07:41:04 +0000

I personally like Rich myself.

Also: The absolutely fascinating DICK HARDT HAS MORE MONEY THAN YOU blog.

By: substitute

substitute — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 06:05:01 +0000

optimuscrime.com
warrenkinsella.com (sometimes)
andrewspicer.com (sometimes)
mirabilis.ca

and probably others who I don’t remember the locale of and are therefore STEALTH CANADIANS

By: dixieflatline

dixieflatline — Fri, 09 Sep 2005 05:20:29 +0000

Ah, uh, isn’t Dave Shea a canadian? Not that I’ve read mezzoblue or ANY blogs in ages.