Jun 11, 2010

INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Steve Anderson A year ago, OpenMedia.ca, along with several other groups, rallied people from across Canada to contact the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission (CRTC) in support of Al Jazeera English’s (AJE) application to broadcast in Canada. Of the approximately 2,800 public comments submitted to the CRTC, all...

Jun 11, 2010

NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina Water is the essence of our body’s circulatory system and that of the planet’s. In our bodies, a loss of 10 percent of our fluids can be fatal. However, with an increase of 83 million people on the planet every year, water demand will continue to escalate unless we change our use of this precious substance. It is...

Jun 11, 2010

ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot Once our personal connection to what is wrong becomes clear, we have to choose. We can go on as before, recognizing our dishonesty and living with it the best we can, or we can begin the effort to change the way we think and live.  – Wendell Berry Scientists once believed that it was the vitamin, mineral, fibre...

Jun 11, 2010

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young The moment we begin to fear the opinions of others and hesitate to tell the truth that is in us… the divine floods of light and life no longer flow into our souls. – Elizabeth Cady Stanton Again and again, over the years in my work I have encountered people who, to varying degrees, are over-concerned...

Jun 11, 2010

FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead The Maid (La Nana), which just opened, is one of those films you could watch as straight drama or as a film that could have you in stitches. The tone is ambiguous, adding a certain mysterious quality to the film, although it takes some time to see where it is going. Virtually the entire film is spent with Raquel (Catalina...