Women Lead Latin America’s Growing Anti-Militarization Movementsby Laura Carlsen, form Z-Net, January 26, 2011.When George W. Bush left the White House, the rest of the world breathed a sigh of…
Want to join student leaders from across the campus in an innovative project that will help create sustainability policy at the University of Alberta?If so, you are invited to contribute…
Premier Ed Stelmach has delayed his visit to Fort Chipewyan.Before traveling to the hamlet and listening to the health concerns of residents, the Premier is now requiring the community's leadership…
Jail harms aboriginal men, hearing toldby Alexandra Paul, from Winnipeg Free Press, January 14, 2011.WHEN War Lake First Nation Chief Betsy Kennedy was a slip of a girl in The…
The Tentacles of American Power: Afghan RealityBy Vijay Prashad, from CounterPunch, January 12, 2011.Slowly, but surely, the leakage of the U. S. State Department cables continues. Media interest in the…
Last week I received a query from a pregnant woman who saw a documentary called ' Earthlings'. The video upset her so much that she asked how to embrace a…
Obama’s Afghanistan Review: A Whitewash of a Disastrous Occupationby Phyllis Bennis and Kevin Martin, from Z-Net, December 28, 2010.Apparently nothing can happen in the U.S. war in Afghanistan that doesn’t…
Child Welfare has become my nemesis. I am disgusted by the entire “policy” that directs services on reserve and by the Child Welfare Act in general. I think the system…
Rape rampant in US military: Statistics and soldiers' testimonies reveal a harrowing epidemic of sexual assault in the US military.by Dahr Jamail, from Al Jazeera, December 21, 2010.Sexual assault within…
Naturally, MacLean's 'Too Asian' article caused a stir across Canadian campuses (in response, MacLean's has changed the name of the article and qualified some of its points). However, it's interesting…
"We're all capitalists here. We're not anti-industry, but we do strive to find a balance. We need to find sustainable ways of doing things."— Lorraine Hoffman, Athabasca Chipewyan First Nation…
Israeli Government Documents Show Deliberate Policy To Keep Gazans At Near-starvation Levelsby Saed Bannoura, from International Middle East Media Center, November 6, 2010.Documents, whose existence were denied by the Israeli…
Former judge, John Reilly wrote a book: Writing Bad Medicine: A Judge’s Struggle for Justice in a First Nations Community and he say’s if he had the power he would…
"The debate about oil-sands extraction has become polarized, with players cast as either totally against, or for developing the sands rapidly without regard for environmental consequences. Both positions are based…
Last night, Ezra Levant and Ben West of the Wilderness Committee debated the ethics of the Alberta Oilsands in front of a packed house in Vancouver. During the debate, as…
I visit Montreal often. The city seems to have a special hold on me and I feel compelled to spend weeks on end there for no particular reason aside from…
On the 11th Hour of the 11th Day of the 11th Month: Laying Down ArmsBy Peter Linebaugh, from CounterPunch, November 11, 2010.On the 11th hour of the 11th day of…
For Peter Silverstone, cleaning up the oilsands has nothing to do with mitigating the effects of climate change. Rather, it has to do with mitigating the effects climate change has…
I tripped across this a while ago- a radio interview with Tony Prudori- INAC flack in Thunder Bay in a CBC radio interview about the Attawapiskat school issue. It's an…
Edmonton-Milwoods MLA Carl Benito provides a bizarre explanation for paying his property taxes. His wife forgot... even though he disclosed these unpaid taxes months before he submitted his Public Disclosure…
