<img src=”http://i43.tinypic.com/xmpbm0.jpg” title=”baby it’s cold outside!” alt=”bundle up!” style=”float:center” Bundle up baby! It’s gonna be a cold one. More »
Last week This editor Graham F. Scott blogged about a group of atheists in England who raised money to buy ad space on 200 London buses with the slogan: “There’s probably no God. Now stop worrying and enjoy your life.” Now the Globe and Mail is reporting that the ad effort may soon be making […] More »
Last week, Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff had this to say about the Gaza offensive: “Canada has to support the right of a democratic country to defend itself”. The minister of state for Foreign Affairs, Peter Kent lent similar backing to Israel, saying: “The position of the government of Canada is that Hamas bears the burden […] More »
“I know it sounds strange to say, but if we care about the poor, shouldn’t we actually be campaigning for sweatshops?” – New York Times’ Nicholas D. Kristof in Cambodia ENRICO BIANDA WWW.ACTNOW.COM In Kristof’s video, “A Dirty Job: Making the Case for Sweatshops” the former managing editor for The Times is worried that if […] More »
As Americans prepare to make history before the world’s watchful eyes, the town of Washington DC is gearing up for a natural disaster. Next Tuesday’s inauguration of President Elect Barack Obama is starting to sound more like a drill for an impending terrorist attack than a celebration. In preparation for this historic moment, the city […] More »
Our January-February 2009 issue is now online for your reading pleasure. I’ll be highlighting a few items on the blog over the next week or so, but you can skip ahead and read the whole thing now. In the cover story, “The Case for All-Black Schools,” Andrew Wallace digs through the troubled history of Africentric […] More »
<img src=”http://i40.tinypic.com/345bi8p.jpg” alt=”solargraph” title=”solargraph” style=”float:centre” As an aspiring photographer, I understand the difficulties of taking long exposure shots with my digital slr. I’ll spend a lifetime setting up the shot until it’s just right, and then, inevitably, I’ll knock the camera just before I’m finished, rendering the whole image blurry and effectively ruining the shot. […] More »
This past Sunday was the a 7th anniversary of the arrival of prisoners to the Guantanamo Bay detention center. It also marked just over one week until President-elect Obama is inaugurated. In his campaign, Obama promised to close Guantanamo within 100 days of gaining office, but the task is looking a little more complicated than […] More »
When I was a kid I really wanted to be a pirate (actually I was probably nearly twenty one when I first got this notion into my head…) I could live on a boat with the sea as my home and travel where ever the great winds would take me. I would have swash-buckling adventures, […] More »
A reflective morning trip to work through uncannily warm sunlight for a would-be bleak January day was followed by the happy realization that one of my favourite journals, the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, out of Los Angelas CA (which was out of commission for so long that I nearly lost hope and gave up […] More »
A new ad campaign launched on British public transit systems today promoting atheism. The campaign was spearheaded by readers of England’s Guardian newspaper website Comment Is Free, who together raised more than £135,000 ($230,000 CAD) to pay for the campaign (they say their initial goal was £5,500 and 30 buses, a deliberately modest goal that […] More »