If Canada cares about child soldiers
A few weeks ago Omar Khadr, the last remaining Western citizen being held by the Americans at Guantanamo Bay, pleaded guilty to all charges against…
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The father of Turkey
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, who was born in the Ottoman city in Salonika in 1881, was Turkey’s most beloved hero and the founder of the Republic…
Fatties fuck too
On Oct. 25, 2010 an article appeared on the website of Marie Claire entitled “Should ‘Fatties’ Get a Room? (Even on TV?).” The author, Maura…
Why do children starve?
Why do children starve? After removing all my cynicism and political-minded hoo-ha, I really don’t understand it. Forget the government, forget unfair distribution on a…
Left out in the cold
Almost a decade after being arrested, Omar Khadr has finally been sentenced. He received 40 years for the murder of an American soldier in Afghanistan,…
China in Africa
When Chinese supervisors recently shot at protesting Zambian miners, injuring 11, the story quickly became international news. A labour incident in a remote corner of…
Human trafficking in Canada
Human trafficking does not sound like something that happens in Winnipeg. Sure, most of us have heard of it, but usually in the context of…
Reality Cheque
Debt is something that frustrates me to no end. Not only have I been a student for the past four years, I have worked at…
Another winter of discontent
Well, shit. Winter is back, kicking ass and taking names. Outside, it is wet and cold as fuck. There was snow last night, and the…
The October Crisis forty years after
Last year, a great injustice was done in Canada. At the muzzle of threats to violence issued by some Quebec sovereigntists, several events to mark…