Stripped of his usual self-satirizing armour, this year Oscar turned out to have a heart of gold as the emotions flowed and actors paid tribute to actors from an intimate stage. If you missed the low-irony love fest, or want to relive virtually every moment from the red carpet idiocy to Slumdog Millionaire’s Cinderalla triumph, a Salon.com writer speed-types a blow-by-blow report, documenting the show in exhaustive detail—and conveying the gradual thawing of her own cynicism as the night wears on.
Categories: Need to know
Are the Oscars recession-proof?
The show’s extreme makeover had its critics, but many skeptics were won over
From Macleans
Sports
Is hockey becoming America’s game?
More kids, more rinks, and now, more popular than basketball
Inkless Wells
Debating the Office of Religious Freedom
Welcome to The New Missionaries series, in partnership with the Canadian International Council
World
Syria: ‘Now this is a war’
Pro-democracy protesters talk to ‘Maclean’s’ about the toll of fighting the regime and their fears for the future
Jesse Brown
The Internet is the opposition
Teh Internets have been saying one and the same thing about Vic Toews’ Lawful Access
Jesse Brown
Vic Toews, meet Fake Ann Cavoukian
Ironically, Ontario’s privacy commissioner (a harsh critic of Lawful Access) also has a detested Twitter doppelganger
Canada
Canada’s foreign worker boom
Since 2006, Canada’s low-wage temporary workforce population has ballooned by 70 per cent
