Here's notorious Toronto lubricator Kathryn Borel Jr. teaching us how to festively slice open a bottle of bubbly without swallowing a single shard of glass!

Jesse Brown, a BoingBoing guest-blogger, is the host of TVO's Search Engine podcast. Here's a cartoon I made starring my adorable little cousins. The person they're beating up is me.

Jesse Brown, a BoingBoing guest-blogger, is the host of TVO's Search Engine podcast. poster by Emma Segal If you live in Toronto, come have a drink with me at the… Read the rest of the article: Tonight: Search Engine launch party in Toronto

Jesse Brown, a BoingBoing guest-blogger, is the host of TVO's Search Engine podcast. Jonathan Goldstein's Wiretap is the greatest radio show you may have never heard of. That's because, despite… Read the rest of the article: Jonathan Goldstein's Wiretap finally has a podcast!

Socalled AKA Josh Dolgin is an annoying, talented, annoyingly talented "buddy" of mine.

My podcast Search Engine launches a new season this week with a discussion between me and (my radio hero) Ira Glass, host of This American Life.

A few years ago I hosted a mini-series for CBC Radio called The Contrarians, a show about "unpopular ideas that just might be right". Each week I'd take a controversial opinion and try it on for size. Sometimes the show was serious, sometimes it was silly- I rarely agreed with the positions I took, but operated on the principle that no idea is so radical or offensive that we should be forbidden to contemplate it (if only to learn why we should discard it). The CBC brass was incredibly supportive of the project and I was given license to explore a lot of unorthodox subject matter. Topics included:

• Multiculturalism doesn't work (we just eat each other's sandwiches).
• Feminism isn't dead, it's just finished (take a bow, ladies- you won!).
• Copyright should be abolished.

I'd love to link to these shows now, but I can't. They were never posted online or offered as podcasts. I tried posting them on my personal website, and was instructed to take them down by CBC management. I was told I was violating their copyright. Every now and then I still get an email from a teacher or listener requesting an episode of The Contrariana, and I have to explain that I'd be breaking the law to send them one.

Norman McLaren is known to most Canadians as the creator of the Oscar-winning anti-war animation Neighbours (which seemed to air every hour past midnight on public TV when I was a kid).

But the NFB's extensive and amazing archives contain a wealth of other McLaren creations- including the following piece of terrifying WWII propaganda:

Noticing that most cartoon characters lack genitals, I made a short animation explaining where new cartoon buddies come from…