Photo from Checkoutmycards.comThe Oakland A's nipped team homophobia in the bud Sunday by indefinitely suspending top minor league pitching prospect, Ian Krol, for tweeting what was reported by the San…
Coming fast on the heels of Canada’s withdrawal from Afghanistan and the official handing over control from Canadian to US armed forces is another milestone ending in Canadian – actually,…
Released last week, the Boston Red Sox contribution to the It Gets Better project features manager Terry Francona, captain and catcher Jason Varitek, and first/third baseman Kevin Youkilis, whose words…
Well, it's not equality, but it's a big step, nonetheless, in Rhode Island, where Senate lawmakers Wednesday evening approved civil unions for gay couples. The bill, which already passed in…
You’ll probably want to watch this short ad about WikiLeaks. It’s “priceless”. What Does it Cost to Change the World? from WikiLeaks on Vimeo.
That the United States is unpopular in Pakistan is common knowledge. But just how unpopular is surprising. According to the Pew Global Attitudes Project, 73 per cent of Pakistanis hold…
In a landmark moment in American history, the New York State Senate voted 33-29 Friday night to pass a state bill (Bill 5045) legalizing marriage equality. Thirty-two votes were needed…
Americans have for some time seemed to have an insatiable appetite for military spending. Defence was the sacred cow of their federal budget. Now it seems they are losing that…
Following the lead taken by the San Francisco Giants, the Chicago Cubs on Monday became the second professional sports team to join the "It Gets Better" campaign, a project intended…
New York Giants co-owner Steve Tisch has joined the campaign for marriage equality in New York State in a new video released Monday (below) in which he states: "As an…
U.S. Defence Secretary Robert Gates is not amused by the lack of military esprit de corp among America's NATO allies. "The blunt reality," he lectured, "is that there will be…
Michael Strahan, the former National Football League defensive end who played his entire career for the New York Giants, last week became the third professional athlete, after New York Rangers…
A report released this past week from the U.S. Geological Survey found that over an 800 year period, the past 30 years indicate a dramatic break from the typical snowpack…
The activism wave continues through baseball stadiums in the United states as the Seattle Mariners announced Thursday that they will join the San Francisco Giants, Chicago Cubs, and Boston Red…
Googling the history of our Afghanistan adventure the other day, I encountered a snide Vancouver Sun article written in 2008 mocking "Taliban Jack" for his position on the war, sarcastically…
Caines’ work succeeds because it comes across as both sincere and ridiculous. It’s a grotesque, and yet an accurate portrayal of political pomposity.
Effective immediately, the US Department of Transportation has ordered TransCanada to suspend all activity on the Keystone I pipeline. According to the New York Times, the order was issued by…
YouTube is never short of videos showing police and security guards pushing their weight around enforcing a ridiculous notion that the way to catch terrorists is to harass photographers in…
Fellow blogger, Amina Araf, who writes the popular A Gay Girl in Damascus under the pseudonym, Amina Abdallah, was reportedly kidnapped by armed men on Monday night. Holding dual American…
It’s hard to run a country with everyone squawking in your ear about how you have to be just like them, even if they are failures. The war on drugs…
