Behind the Smile and You’re an Idiot
A Tale of Two Books READ IT by Bruce Mason • I just finished reading a couple of current, timely, best-selling BC books back to … Read more
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Tips on eating less industrialized meat
READ IT by Bruce Mason • Last month Common Ground interviewed Sonia Faruqi about her phenomenally influential book, Project Animal Farm: An Accidental Journey Into … Read more
Primal Mind Primal Games
Why We Do What We Do READ IT by Bruce Mason • Perhaps we have been made numb trying to make sense of our world with … Read more
Bearskin Diary – Surviving Canada’s shameful ’60s Scoop
READ IT by Bruce Mason • The wise Cherokee proverb, “Never criticize a person until you’ve walked a mile in their moccasins,” encapsulates the idea … Read more
Colouring books for grown-ups
READ IT by Bruce Mason • For millions of folks, 2015 was the “Year of the Adult Colouring Book.” After occupying at least five spots … Read more
Mainstream media the big election loser
READ IT by Bruce Mason • “Anybody” won the federal election – as in “Anybody but Conservatives” (ABCs) and “Anybody but Harper.” But almost everybody … Read more
Super unequal British Columbia
BC tops the inequality list on many fronts READ IT by Bruce Mason • Have you heard that BC has earned yet another top spot on … Read more
Read local, act global
READ IT by Bruce Mason “World class” – a phrase that’s found its way back into Greater Vancouver’s vocabulary lately, as in “world class” spill … Read more
Junkyard Planet and the fourth “R”
READ IT by Bruce Mason • According to Adam Minter, author of Junkyard Planet: Travels in the Billion-Dollar Trash Trade, repair is the fourth “R” … Read more
Building a neo-liberal Canada
READ IT by Bruce Mason • It rules the world, but do you know what “neoliberalism” really means? While rarely defined, often confused, misused and … Read more