Plastic is everywhere. It sounds like hyperbole but take a look around you right now and you’ll quickly realize how true that statement is. Then think of the items you’ve bought in the last month and all the plastic packaging you discarded. Now think about this: there is no way to organically breakdown plastic. It’s […] More »
A National Post columnist characterized David Suzuki as saying the Green Party should no longer exist – basing this on some of Suzuki’s remarks. On Tuesday, Suzuki spoke to students of Lakehead University and said, it’s true, there should be no Green party. But, if we simply read the statement in context, the paradox that […] More »
[Editor’s Note: Sarah Gopaul will be reviewing a selection of films from the Planet in Focus film festival over the next few days. She is a regular contributor to popjournalism.ca] This documentary addresses a very sensitive subject in Canada — should unpasteurized raw milk be regulated and made available to consumers? Both arguments are very […] More »
I went last night to the relaunch of the new Rabble.ca, a pretty swank bash held at the Steam Whistle Brewery in Toronto. The main attraction last night was a panel discussion with Maude Barlow, Murray Dobbin, Jessica Yee, and Anne Lagacé Dowson, and moderated by Duncan Cameron. It was a pretty good discussion. I […] More »
The news has come out that Canadian officials indirectly contributed to the arrests and torture of three Muslim-Canadians. This revalation followed an inquiry by retired Supreme Court Judge, Frank Iacobucci into the separate, but thematically linked, cases of Ahmad El Maati, Muayyed Nureddin and Abdullah Almalki. The RCMP, Canadian Security Intelligence Service, and the department […] More »
Today is Media Democracy Day in Canada, a day that is close to our hearts at This Magazine. As a small publisher of an independent magazine of current affairs, opinion, arts, and culture, we value our independence and the freedom it gives us to tell the truth as we see it. Lots of editors out […] More »
[Editor’s Note: Today we’re launching the first in what will likely become a stable of BLOG.THIS columns. Aaron Broverman will be writing “ThisAbility,” a column about issues of disability. ThisAbility will appear each Tuesday. Look for more soon.] “So, what happened? Did you get in an accident, or something?” No, but this is still ranks […] More »
This morning the Canada Council for the Arts threw a little party to announce the finalists for this year’s Governor General’s Literary Awards finalists. The literati and assorted hangers-on crowded into Ben McNally Books on Bay Street in Toronto to hear the announcement, and I stopped by to see the festivities (I think I qualify […] More »
It’s been three days since the de ja vu election and I, like many Canadians, have been walking around in a bit of a daze wondering what happened on Tuesday. Are we really in the same place we were before? Did we really just spent $300 million to shuffle around a dozen or so seats? […] More »
Embassy, a foreign policy newsweekly and division of The Hill Times, published a report on Canada’s current place in foreign development yesterday. This report consisted of articles written by journalists and professors on what Canada has done, might do in light of the Tory win this Tuesday, and probably should do. Stephen Brown (page 17), […] More »