“A more polite, eco-friendly version of Hunter S. Thompson”, this award winning author, director, filmmaker, journalist, and comedian’s past and ongoing projects include “Never Shoot a Stampede Queen”, “GreenPieces”, “Canadians for Climate Change” and most recently, performing “Hockey Nut in Canada” on Urban Rush.

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• Sat, 24 Dec 2011 10:20:29 +0000: A Saltspring Christmas - Mark Leiren-Young
  I originally wrote this for The Globe and Mail in 1990…  Merry everything! A Saltspring Christmas It was the Winter of 1987 and I desperately needed a break — from everything. I’d just quit my job, split up with my long-time girlfriend and was discovering the true meaning of stress. So I filled a suitcase with books, clothes [...]
• Sun, 18 Dec 2011 12:16:48 +0000: A Conservative Christmas Message - Mark Leiren-Young
  Here’s a special holiday greeting that captures the new Canadian Christmas spirit! I hope you enjoy it — and please share it with anyone else you think will either laugh or swear at it… Tweet
• Sun, 11 Dec 2011 11:58:58 +0000: Tundra Road (Occupy the North Pole) - Mark Leiren-Young
  Many Christmases ago I heard Bruce Springsteen singing “Santa Claus is coming to town” and I thought… this has gotta be a Saturday Night Live sketch (like I said, it was a long time ago). The guy who sang about “debts no honest man could pay” was singing a boppy Christmas Carol? It just didn’t [...]
• Thu, 01 Dec 2011 13:02:10 +0000: The Road to Surviving Progress - Mark Leiren-Young
  Is Wall Street killing the environment? That’d be one of the big questions posed in the new documentary, Surviving Progress, which opens Friday Dec. 2 at the always funky and fascinating Rio in Vancouver and the Cumberland Four in Toronto. And considering what’s been happening lately in Zuccotti Park and around the world it’s tough [...]
• Thu, 24 Nov 2011 09:27:02 +0000: Kalle Lasn — The Anti-Claus #OCCUPYXMAS - Mark Leiren-Young
  In 1998, I was writing a weekly humour column that was self-syndicated in several newspapers in western Canada. For about two years I riffed on a mix of politics and pop culture and as someone who started reading Adbusters with the magazine’s debut, how could I not write about Buy Nothing Day or — as [...]

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