Al-Jazeera in Canada – A win for media diversity and democracy
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 … Read more
Month: June 2010
Water: life’s foundation
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 … Read more
Foods that heal
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 … Read more
Be true to yourself
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 … Read more
Birth and rebirth
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 … Read more
Gulf oil disaster a costly lesson
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola It could never happen here. That was Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s assurance in the wake of the … Read more
Haiti before and after the quake
A tale of aid gone wrong by Geoff Olson photos by Elaine Briere David Putt, a retired agrologist/geologist from Nelson, BC, stands before a display … Read more
Get ready for the great pharmacy war
Lessons from Greece and Ontario DRUG BUST by Alan Cassels If you’ve been paying attention to the news, you’ll have some inkling that Greece is … Read more
People power is rising
WRITING ON THE WALL by Joseph Roberts June, with the most daylight hours of any month, is calling us to action. The time has come … Read more
Who will really benefit from a digital strategy?
INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Steve Anderson You probably haven’t heard about it, but, as you read this, the government is in the final days of its … Read more