The white troll is a sad individual who actively takes the time to pull up a chair, flip open his laptop, read your 2,500-word article, reflect on it, scroll down, crack his knuckles, and start commenting.
Instead of discussing music and artists, I faced a hostile, boys’ club atmosphere. Discussions about music were a distant second to bullying and overblown egos.
The Polaris jury is filled with the most prominent Canadian music journalists, producers, and broadcasters in Canada. The deliberation process should be picking out music and arguing for our favourite albums. It wasn’t.
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Yesterday Postmedia’s Terry Glavin broke the news that the tragic Alan Kurdi story has a Canadian connection: the drowned child’s family had tried and failed to emigrate to Canada, and their case was hand-delivered directly to immigration minister Chris Alexander himself, who did not take urgent action.
