Category: Columns
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Masha Slamovich on the Joshi circuit, Impact matches, and more
Masha Slamovich is a Russian-born women’s pro wrestler who has wrestled all throughout Canada. She is also making waves in Japan lately and has been featured with promotions like Chikara as well as Impact Wrestling. This is Russian Dynamite, Masha Slamovich. It has been a curious career arc with the Russian wrestler starting her career…
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Beaver First Nation History
Beaver First Nation History has a rich tradition and beautiful lineage. Who better to delve into that than someone who has been a resident of that community for over three decades? Harvey Bulldog is a former Beaver First Nation Chief, operates a large-scale farming framework out there, and has invaluable direct knowledge from living in…
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PFC 13: Tony Laramie and Joe Marchand Quotes
PFC 13 goes down on Sunday, March 8th at Rebel Nightclub in Toronto, Ontario. Prospect Fighting Championships is presenting a flyweight title bout in the main event. Tony Laramie takes on Claudio Ledesma for the vacant 125 lb hardware. In adhering to the titular nature of the promotion, there’s plenty of prospects that are set…
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Q&A w/ some of the Stars of ONE Championship: Kings of Courage
ONE: Kings of Courage is set to go Saturday, January 20th and a deep event at the Jakarta Convention Center. The stacked card includes main event competitors Tiffany “No Chill” Teo of Singapore vs “The Panda” Xiong Jing Nan of China, co-main eventers Stefer Rahardian of Indonesia and Muhammad Imran of Pakistan, and lastly, “The…
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Marcone’s Mind: Free Trade trumps protectionism
“It’s an interesting thing, in times of war, we blockade our enemies from getting goods from us. In times of peace, we do to ourselves by tariffs what we do to our enemy in times of war.” By: Matthew Marcone The Trump Administration’s decision to slap a 20 per cent tariff on Canadian Lumber has…
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Marcone’s Mind – Perspective AI: Internet Comment Police
By: Matthew Marcone Google has decided to use artificial intelligence (AI) to take on a new role – as Internet comment police. I’m constantly warning about the movement towards censorship and its implications on western values, namely that without the right to openly debate, criticize and even offend others pointlessly, people end up killing one…
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Marcone’s Mind: Suicide a silent epidemic in the north
Suicide an undiscussed epidemic in the north Matt Marcone The issue of suicide is perhaps the most common story in the north that very few people care to talk about openly. Part of this is because it’s an uncomfortable topic and as is the case when someone dies, it’s tough finding anything meaningful to say.…
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Marcone’s Mind: Mistaken for a sex predator!
I’ve got a wild personal story for you that I’ve been eager to write about publicly for a few weeks. I’ve been mistaken for someone else in one of the weirdest possible ways, and it has been a major test to my philosophy that, “it doesn’t matter what other people think, so long as I…

