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Bill C-52 will put that to a stop! have willingly self-shamed myself for allowing myself to be so busy co-running a business, working long hours and 7 day weeks; that I have totally forgotten about the world around our little business. My sources to keeping me up-to-date are our customers, with a recent wake-up […]

Usually when it comes to sex, people don’t really bother considering it in terms of the law - needless to say it’s a very personal thing. I was surfing the net and reading articles about prostitution in Vancouver and decided I wanted to take a look at the legal side of it. I discovered […]

I was reading the papers as I do every morning and I think I should put that little tradition aside. Reading of climate change, global financial bailouts, trans-national alliances, the expanding Oil industries, and “our” complacency with all of that because are too busy trying to survive.
It is indeed remarkable. The Toronto star calls […]

In the horrific struggle between Palestine and Israel which periodically splashes its way onto our newspapers and television and computer screens, it’s often all-too easy for the media to ignore issues of women’s health. It’s clear that the unjust treatment of the Palestinian people by the Israeli Occupation has a direct impact on women’s […]

How could I not bee insane and still write this article? I’ve been looking for some simple examples of media indoctrinating ideas into children’s minds and I think I’ve got a good one. I just finished watching Bee Movie. You know, the one with Jerry Seinfeld as a cute little bee […]

I’ve been following No One is Illegal for a while now — both from a journalistic and an immigrant’s standpoint — and I’m amazed at the work they do, particularly at a time where borders and privileges assert themselves against those in the world who don’t have access to bounties like Vancouver, Nelson, Victoria, and […]

In the months leading up to Italy’s parliamentary elections, abortion has become a prominent issue on the election agenda. Former Conservative Premier Silvio Berlusconi, in the running for office, recently gave the United Nations a strong anti-choice message that a fetus should be protected “from conception until natural death.”
In December, popular conservative journalist Giuliano Ferrara […]

{IMAGE DESCRIPTION: Chromosome with DNA} After the human genome was sequenced several years ago, it was inevitable that someone, somewhere would see dollar signs in this. A California-based online company, 23andMe, is offering the general public genotyping services. You pay $999, receive a kit in the mail, which basically consists of a test tube […]

Let’s get decisive shall we? I read that the city has changed their Plaza “design [at Queen Elizabeth Park] a whopping 85 times after the contract was signed. They say work was delayed for three months because the City hadn’t fixed the concrete slab underneath the plaza.” Is that what our taxpayer’s dollars […]

{Editors Note: This is a little something passed on to us from ForestEthics}: The Tar Sands of Alberta, Canada is the largest and fastest growing fossil fuel project in the world. Development is releasing toxic emissions and leveling huge swaths of fragile Boreal Forest and poisoning down stream communities. Most of the oil is being […]