Sep 7, 2010

INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Steve Anderson On August 9, I woke up to headlines like “Google Goes Evil” and “Google Greed and the End of Net Neutrality.” As someone who has worked alongside Google to keep the internet open (AKA Net Neutrality) in Canada, I was stunned. Did the open internet community just lose its biggest industry supporter? The...

Sep 7, 2010

NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina Someone I know took a peanut butter sandwich in his lunch bag every day – for seven years. Then what happened? He didn’t give up peanut butter, but when he finished school and got a job as a computer whiz, once in a while he ate a warm meal in the company cafeteria, to add a little variety. Sandwiches are named after...

Sep 7, 2010

ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot The honeybee Apis mellifera was brought to North America by European colonists in 1662 to pollinate their crops. Before European honeybees were imported to North America, generations of growers depended upon the 4,000+ species of native bees that lived there. In Canada, there are 800 species of native bees. These...

Sep 7, 2010

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves. – Carl Gustav Jung Life is like a laboratory for our learning and other people are the raw materials with which we work. There are no absolutes, however, because everything is based on perception. Human perception is...

Sep 7, 2010

FILMS WORTH WATCHING by Robert Alstead It seems more like a decade than a year since VIFF last came round. Make that two decades. With Copenhagen’s failure fast becoming a dot in the rear view mirror, one filmmaker has returned to footage from the first “Earth Summit” in Rio for inspiration. In Severn, The Voice of Our Children, Jean-Paul...