As it’s year’s end and I’m on hiatus from the interview program, I figured it apt to reflect on the program and what’s been wrought. This year, 171 interviews were produced for this website, of which all but three I conducted.

In less than a week, I’ll find myself on a long haul flight. It’s not the destination that worries me, rather it’s the journey. I’m not enthusiastic about the several hours I’ll be flying, and so I’ve sought advice from regular travellers like Rafe Mair and Rona Maynard. They have both suggested reading mid-air.

A few weeks ago, Sean Holman, the talented and prodigious editor of Public Eye Online was on the program to discuss the year that was and the year to come in provincial politics. We got to talking movies, when I’d asked him if he’d seen State of Play, the fine American film based on the British miniseries of the same name. This got me thinking about what films had the best depictions of politics, media, journalism and the writing process. I came up with a few, and limited myself to twenty which seemed a workable number. Twenty favourites, as it were.

VANCOUVER – There’s a new look to THECOMMENTARY.CA. The website has been redesigned and reorganised, making it more.

The Commentary is ten today.