Today being Earth Day, what better time to screen The End of Suburbia, presented at 7 p.m. at the Bloor Theatre by the International Citizens' Inquiry into 9/11.

Barrie Zwicker, who hosted the film, and producer Barry Silverthorne will be present for a Q-and-A after the screening.

I blogged about this extensively after seeing the film back in the winter of 2005.

You have to live in T.O. (or somewhere else where it is showing), but check out Blackballed: The Bobby Dukes Story, featuring Rob Corddry of The Daily Show.

Lots o' amusing Canadian references! I especially snickered at the white gangster-rapper-paintballers from PEI!

Eye Weekly has an article on Corddry, and the Star did a q-and-a with him. The Globe's Stephen Cole wasn't crazy about the flick. 

However, he doesn't mention that if there isn't much character development, that's because there was no script. Corddry comes out of comedy improv. The whole film is him and his improv buddies riffing off each other. No dialogue was written in advance (jazz comedy!). That's part of the fun, and accounts for  some of the weakness too.

That being said, the Now review did make that observation and came to much the same conclusion.

But people in the theatre laughed throughout and applauded at the end. So go figure.

Haji Omar is the amir (chief) of Pakistan's Taliban, which controls South Waziristan in Pakistan and will likely do the same in North Waziristan (those territories adjoin the Afghanistan border; however, they are north of where Canadian troops are currently operating). He has some chilling things to say.

This coming April 26 (Wednesday) is the 20th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. Mikhael Gorbachev had been Russia's president for 13 months by that point. He looks back on the world's worst nuclear accident in an interview with Green Cross International, but carried by the BBC.

While the EU's anti-terror chief can't find proof of any secret CIA prisons on European soil, the CIA turfed a staffer who they think leaked evidence of those prisons to the Washington Post last November.

While there's strong circumstantial evidence they exist, there's no proof the CIA has secret prisons in eastern Europe that it uses for renditioning, say Europe's antiterror chief. Some critics are calling 'whitewash' on that.