Category Archives: Columnist

Howard Stern on Gabourey Sidibe: hard facts

By Renee Martin | Published: March 11, 2010
"And Oprah's lying and saying you're going to have a brilliant career.”
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Michael Bryan: let’s not discount depression

By Renee Martin | Published: March 8, 2010
When Barr wrote her infamous blog post, she ignored depression.
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Vancouver Games & First Nations resistance

By Renee Martin | Published: February 22, 2010
Native participation is only welcomed when it coincides with the Canadian colonial agenda.
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Ukraine’s election: the appeal of Victor Yanukovych

By Natalia Antonova | Published: February 8, 2010
Expectations are low, which is dangerous, because low expectations automatically mean complacency on part of leaders.
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Focus on the Family Super Bowl ad: both abortion AND motherhood matter

By Renee Martin | Published: February 7, 2010
Both sides are so blissfully wedded to their ideological positions that women become little more than props.
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“Big Love” can mean all kinds of love: gays on HBO’s hit show

By Renee Martin | Published: February 4, 2010
People need to see themselves represented in order to understand that they are not alone.
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Arbitration & mediation in the Arab world: an excerpt

By Nasser Ali Khasawneh | Published: January 31, 2010
There are at least two verses in the Koran that sanction the notion of arbitration and mediation.
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Water

By Kyla Pasha | Published: January 29, 2010
flecked with the debris of dead civilizations and people
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Jihad vs. McWorld: one man’s terrorist…

By Renee Martin | Published: January 25, 2010
Violence against Muslims and desecration of mosques is on the rise. We do not see these incidents as terrorist acts.
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Ukraine election: Yulia Tymoshenko is NOT the Ukrainian Sarah Palin

By Natalia Antonova | Published: January 18, 2010
Ukraine, lately, has not seemed to be particularly hospitable to actual people.
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