Toronto— At the conclusion of the Halifax demonstrations against the G8 Development Ministerial, Toronto activists are finalizing plans for a week of similar events during the June G20 Summit, to mark the G20′s unwillingness to meet its own commitments to global equality. Halifax activists denounced the ministerial for claiming to improve the lives of working… [Read more…]
April 28, 2010
In June, 2010, the G-20 are meeting in Toronto: a sign that whoever plans these things is getting sloppy. The original plan of having G-8 and G-20 meetings in Huntsville fell through because of a lack of accommodations. Apparently, 10,000 hotel rooms are needed to host a G-20 meeting but Huntsville only has about 10001.… [Read more…]
April 16, 2010
It was a warm evening for January. We were in the back alleyway on our way to a comfortable Toronto watering hole when I looked up. Staring back at me were two small black eyes. Well, eyes of the video recording sort.
April 16, 2010
Many people may not realize that when they turn on the television in their home, what they see as a constant flow of images is actually flickering. Although we do not see this consciously, the repetitive pattern of flickering images creates a state that is similar to hypnosis in the television viewer.
November 29, 2009
Do you have a bad roommate stereotype? For me, the Bad Roommate is constantly in a bathrobe that I’m sure belongs to me, has without even enjoying it, finished off the leftovers I was counting on, and isn’t sure what they did today–yet certainly created an unfathomable mess in the kitchen.
October 14, 2009
The rain was only temporary relief from the suffocating humidity of a mid July day.
October 12, 2009
The sound of sirens can be heard for the third time in two days as the lone firetruck heads to quench the blazes. One woman got drunk and didn’t notice her house burning down around her.
October 12, 2009
Our world is like a Kaleidoscope. The glass pieces within the Kaleidoscope represent the people, while the patterns formed by the pieces reflect the communities that we are all a part of.
August 4, 2009
This is Hebron, known in Arabic as Al-Khalil, the biggest city in the West Bank and an ugly microcosm of the wider Israeli-Palestinian conflict. This is Hebron, a once great Palestinian city brought to its knees by strife and bigotry. Rolling over a series of khaki coloured hills, the same arid yellowish brown landscape seen… [Read more…]
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