Horizon

I used to volunteer at the Cinematheque here in Toronto, and Atom Egoyan and Sara Polley would come to see films there all the time. About the only person who reacted to it was me, who repeatedly started sounding like an awkward teenager with a crush in front of Ms. Polley every time she asked me where she could buy bottled water or where the washrooms were. But as I do that around most women, this isn't that much of a change.

There's something not entirely captured in this article. The thing about celebrity anonymity in Canada is that people are actively complicit in it. When I see famous people in Toronto--or at least people I know from television or film or literature-- I genuinely think "I shouldn't really disturb them. They have a right to be out in public without people like me bothering them." And in fact we expect them to be anonymous-- there's a perverse badge of honour in being able to say "I saw X outside the 7-11 on Spadina and College" or "I saw Y on the subway reading a copy of Now".

I thought it was only Tories who fled the US for Canada ...

I didn't know Tories did that. Explain?

I didn't know Tories did that. Explain?

Tsk. What do they teach these kids?

Sorry, my brain was in the wrong century.