The actress Ellen Page, known worldwide for the films Juno and Inception, recently released a documentary that she directed and produced to raise awareness of one of the problems faced by the...
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Welcome back to our weekly reading roundup! As long as you’re here, why not subscribe to the Global Comment podcast on iTunes or Soundcloud for interviews with thoughtful and creative people?...
Every year in late July, unless you keep away from the center of town shutters drawn and silicone earplugs firmly in place, you’re bound to see Elvis Presley getting takeout from The Olde Red Hen...
Before we delve into the posts we’re reading and loving elsewhere on the internet, don’t miss this dispatch from the Zaatari Refugee Camp on the innovative refugee communities making something...
Good morning, gentle readers. It's been a chaotic and difficult weekend for the world, with terrorist attacks in multiple places and a growing sense of global unsettlement. At times like...
Well for starters, it’s annoying that the most obnoxious kind of Canadian has been validated by Trump winning this election. I’m talking about those that at the first mention of The US,...
I just watched the Vice documentary about Anthony Sowell, the black serial killer in Cleveland who raped and strangled eleven women between 2007 and 2009, and raped a few others who managed to get...
Orphan Black is BACK on BBC America, and the Canadian production is coming out of the gate swinging—literally, as Sarah (Tatiana Maslany) spent a fair chunk of the episode punching and/or pistol...
Feminism FOR REAL, edited by Jessica Yee, Canadian Center for Policy Alternatives, 2011 Mainstream feminist activism and academics, even in the 21st century, have continued to be overly-invested in...