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Shannon Rupp
Vancouver-based Shannon Rupp writes regularly for the Ottawa Citizen and now for The Tyee.
Stories by Shannon Rupp
Relating to Dr. Divi
At Vancouver's Wellness Show, a doctor's pitch for intuitive healing leaves me feeling queasy.
Shadow Workers of the World, Revolt!
Social media made free labour of us all, and now grocers are catching on. I quit.
How to Entertain Yourself for Free, Digitally
January is the frugal month. Here's how I'm getting by.
A New Award for Pseudo-Satire, The Swiftys
Winners must have done something so ridiculous it's redundant to mock them. Your nominees?
Why So Many Are Turning off TV World
Consider the high price of getting 60 channels of drivel. Consider the fast growing options.
'Scroogenomics': Finally the Perfect Xmas Gift
Business prof Joel Waldfogel taught me why exchanging presents just doesn't make sense.
Creating Holiday Memories, Not Garbage
Listen to what some funny people are unwrapping for Christmas: themselves.
Occupiers, Big Media Wants Your Help!
Latest innovations by news corporations out to make more cash by doing less journalism.
Why Name Contest 'Canada Reads'? Should Be 'Authors Beg'
Help! CBC's national book vote has created a legion of writer cyber-shills!
Legion of Cell Phone Resisters: Count Me in!
Everyone says I need a cell phone. And so I don't want one.
Why Do I Keep Taking Pictures of My Food?
And then why am I compelled to post my foodtography online? Weirdly, I'm not alone.
I Feel Great About My Hands
Notable women writers reflect on 'doing old' well. Book launch this Wednesday!
Memo to Iggy, Jack and Liz: Get Strategic!
On behalf of the Lesser of Evils Party, may I suggest you tell your supporters to just plain vote against Stephen Harper?
Artists Wage 2.0 Attacks on Harper
ShitHarperDid.com is zooming, and catchy tune 'Steve, It's Time to Leave' is catching on.
Use Twitter to Interrogate Politicians Publicly
The medium's potential to confront the privileged and powerful is perfect for election time. Tweet 'em good.
Ophelia Benson, Public Atheist
The fearless writer, at UBC tonight, says feminists should take on the major monotheist religions.
2010: Year of the Really Super New New Journalism
Reporters are repeaters, content is king, and Oprah is a journalist.
How 'Mad Men' Sold Us
Draper's into kink. Sterling's flogging a memoir. The show seduces through pure marketing genius (just in time for Christmas!)
Terry Fallis, Self-Made Satirist
He published his own novel, made a podcast, and got famous. Funny thing, he wouldn't advise you try it.
Facebook Follies: The New Crowd-Sourced Lit
Social media makes us all characters in our own public productions. It's literature on the hoof!
You Go Patti!
Vancouver School Board chair's tart-tongued defence fits fresh trend: politicians sticking up for the public interest.
How to Drive Your Employees Nuts: CBC's Leaked Survey
The Mothercorp, wanting to blend TV and radio news reporting, imposed something called 'The Hub' and asked how staff liked it. Hubbub ensued.
Avatar-ocracy
'Best Before,' a show in the Cultural Olympiad, lets its audience of role playing gamers write the ending, and it's a scary one.
That's Oprah-essive!
To slick peddlers of 'power of positive thinking' pap, Barbara Ehrenreich says bleh.
Boob Related Gift Ideas
Depending on how you define the term, two perfect presents.
In Praise of the Lusty Geek
A study out of Amsterdam suggests sexual longing promotes logical thinking. Hmmmm.
Science Discovers Celebrities Are Useful for Something
A lot of fame that deserves to be fleeting, isn't. Stanford brains figured out why.
Against Social Media
Twittering is just frittering as we amuse ourselves to death.
Second Life's Losers
People who fall in love with online avatars. Maybe not so weird.
The Porn Glut
Out of my way, kid. Gimme that normalized degrading sexual imagery.
Idea #5: Beware of Neuromarketing
Adults are taught to be skeptical. But the subconscious is like a toddler.
New Depression Chic
It's not a recession, so much as a style. Here's how to get with it.
How We Can Reinvent TV
The web now allows us to bypass the studios. At last, artists will run the shows.
Risk Written on Their Faces
Harvard researchers: Blame stock market meltdown on too much testosterone.
To Hell with Manners!
Does smashing someone's cellphone strike a blow for civility?
Give Us the Gold in Whining
Canada's athletes inspire. Too bad our politicians and media lack mettle.
Whites Sneering at Whites
Persons of pink mocking themselves is hot, and two Canadians are cashing in.
Silly Boys' Club: Steyn and CIC
Insulting women is sport. Should I file our rights complaint?
What's So Great About Beauty?
From soap ads to elections, looking good is way overrated.
Green Sell: Do You Buy It?
My EPIC journey into the new eco-marketing.
Bookwinked into Bed
Ever lied about your reading prowess just for sex? Many, it seems, have.
Make Whoopee, Not Carbon!
Earth Hour could have been sold so much better.
The Network that Hates Women
'Cashmere Mafia' makes it official. ABC is worst of sexist US TV.
Life Begins At Nano
Female, over 30 and overstressed? Virtue is just a podcast away.
Brunettes Have it Better
A born-blonde reflects on 'The Blonde Mystique.'
The Girl Whisperers
Secrets of TV heroines who corral female fans.
Flushing Readers
Newspapers give up on the news thing.
It's Too Easy Being Green
How current food greenwashing feeds profits not preservation.
White Wedding Willies
'Tradition' merely parts fools from their money.
How to 'Reconcile' the Mini-Me Pet Trend
Cures: puppy Prozac, psychics or leashes.
Living Small
When did decorating a tight space become 'therapy'?
The Boy's Got Bite
Why people are vamping it up again, a century after 'Dracula.'
Jack Bauer's No Right Winger
Conservatives have picked the wrong anti-hero.
The Tyee's Own Oscars
Who really won? George W., dresses and lesbians, among others.
Transsexual Loses Fight with Women's Shelter
Complex case asked: What's discrimination?
Reporters without Shirts
How news people can win trust. An immodest proposal.
Me, a Yoga Devil?
If suffering is the road to redemption, yoga is the autobahn.
'I'm from Rolling Stone' and I'm Compelling TV
Best o' the new realities.
Fire Thongs
Wildest Tyee of 2006 #4: Richmond firefighters must wear boxers? We can do better.
Jingle Hell
War on Christmas? Where do I enlist?
Christianity Is So Gay
It is if you read the news, and 2000 years, a certain way.
Edge of the Stage
‘Diplomacy’ from Vancouver’s hot political theatre scene.
Fire Thongs
Richmond firefighters must wear boxers? We can do better.
Veteran Journalist Fired, Rehired by Times Colonist
Briefly dumped after column critical of tourism industry.
Pitching Woo-Woo
Why is UBC promoting New Age pseudoscience?
How Journalists Invented Ethics
And why they still struggle to get it right.
Born unto Brangelina, a Sign!
Cult of the Bump begets Shiloh.
The 'TV Is Evil' Industry
Does the box really make teens fat, stupid and hot for sex?
Must Listen TV
Soapy shows revive the joy of musical discovery.
Dust and Lust
The point at which sex and housekeeping collide.
Here Comes the 'Propaganda Novel'
Product placement taken to a new literary level.
'The War on Christmas'
Yep, it's raging. But who are the real enemies?
'Write Dirty for Me'
Slap the monkey? Slap the editor!
'Fag Hag' Anthro
Women who love gay men, for some good reasons.
Who Let Tommy Lee on Campus?
For TV, a college lets the creepy rocker ogle frosh and debase higher learning.
Save the Brats!
'Brat Camp' turns child abuse into tele-tainment.
Belittling Belinda
We're told she's a 'blonde bombshell heartbreaking attractive dipstick whore.' Nothing gender specific, of course.
CanWest Metro Move Preserves Daily Dominance
Competition Bureau says move increases advertising competition — its only concern.
Free Sheets Mean Piles of Litter
The profusion of throwaway transit papers in Toronto created disposal difficulties.
The Invasion of the Tiny Tabs
Despite evidence that up-market content also pays, it's daily transit freebies that are sweeping North America.
The Invasion of the Tiny Tabs
Despite evidence that up-market content also pays, it's daily transit freebies that are sweeping North America.
Three New Dailies to Flood Vancouver Area
Rival transit papers rush to fill an internationally explosive market niche.
Reading: The New Sexy
Women can’t resist a ‘good booking’ man, claims Penguin. I’m hot just thinking about it.
Big House 'Good Thing' for Martha
First she'll perfect the art of the cell. Then...?
Journalism's Chronic Illness
Fabulists abound, and a new study says Canadians don't trust the news. Yet the media's current crisis is business as usual.
How the Bloc Will Save Canada
The election math indicates one almost certain outcome: the savvy left-winger from Quebec will hold real power.
What Do Women Want in a Newspaper?
Certainly not the drivel 'targeted' at us. And if you think female editors would do better, think again.
Plumbing the History of the New Cleavage
Low-slung trousers are hot, but I see a bad moon rising.
Santa Wasn't Born Bad
Society made him that way. Look what the Churches, the Victorians and corporations did to a fun little pagan winter fest.
Barbie's Crusade to Cute-ify the Classics
Mattel will bend any old story to bore into girls' minds, even if it means sticking a unicorn in Swan Lake. OK, but why stop there?
- Conservative MP says he might vote against budget, then 'clarifies' his position
- Genetically modified plants won't take root with councillors in Richmond, BC
- Hundreds at Vancouver rally to support Quebec students
- Could Fort Mac become an eco-tourist hotspot?
- Rick Hansen's Man in Motion anniversary tour concludes in Vancouver
- Cohen rejects request to reopen salmon hearings
- Dave Barrett, Kim Campbell named to Order of BC
- Harper gov't funded study arguing Canada suffers from 'Dutch Disease'
- Canada's Economy, Deconstructed (by a 12 year-old)
- Republicans, get in my vagina!
- Bill C-38: the Environmental Destruction Act
- Does BC Stand for Ban Clotheslines?
- The Gem of Canadian Science that Harper Killed
- The Disconnect of Killing 'Connect with Mark Kelley'
- Who Mowed Down the Premier?
- Tories admit to closing enviro research group because they disliked results
- Death in Remand: a Tyee Inquiry
- Chatting with Stursberg, My Ex-Boss and Arch-Nemesis
- Bill C-38: the Environmental Destruction Act
- It's no yolk: Breakfast crew share $21.4M Lotto 6-49 jackpot in Ontario
- The Gem of Canadian Science that Harper Killed
- Seven Ways to Help Folks Fall in Love with Cycling
- Now Is the Time to Talk up Big Ideas
- North Island College Cutting Down on Face Time
- Is the 'Living Wage' Enough?
- Gov't Moving to Keep Farm Disease Outbreaks Secret
- 'Cagey' Clark's Pipeline Prevarications
- The Ethics of Addiction Studies
- Does Simon Fraser University Need a Men's Centre?
- 'Storage Wars'
- How Our Immune Systems Exaggerate Fear
- Now Is the Time to Talk up Big Ideas
- BC's Emerging Green Faith Movement
- Why Blackberry's Embrace of HTML5 Is Good Karma
- Is the 'Living Wage' Enough?
- Van Dongen No Hero to Me
- I Breast-fed My Preschooler. Big Whoop
- Gov't Moving to Keep Farm Disease Outbreaks Secret
- Wall Street ruins Facebook
- Egyptians vote for new President
- Pitchforks and torches out as hunt begins for frankenfish
- ...and meanwhile, robot fish to hunt for pollution in first sea test run
- Conservatives prep back-to-work law for CP railway strike
- Quebec gov't says it's willing to 'talk' after another day of student protests
- Nude painting of Stephen Harper sold for a cool $5,000
- ...and Vancouver liquors up for beer week
