Month: August 2010

In defence of the CRTC

INDEPENDENT MEDIA by Steve Anderson I recently found my way into a media and technology industry conference where I ‘accidentally’ bumped into the chair of … Read more

Food and compassion

NUTRISPEAK by Vesanto Melina You have just dined and however scrupulously the slaughterhouse is concealed in the graceful distance of miles, there is complicity. – Ralph … Read more

Seed savvy

ON THE GARDEN PATH by Carolyn Herriot Farmers and agriculturists have been growing food and selecting seeds for future harvests for 10,000 years. Fewer than … Read more

Happily ever after

UNIVERSE WITHIN by Gwen Randall-Young Every end is a new beginning.  – Proverb Why is it that close to half of all marriages end in divorce? … Read more

Climate change deniers deluded

SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki with Faisal Moola It must be difficult, if not downright embarrassing, to be a climate change denier these days. After … Read more

Summer peace

WRITING ON THE WALL by Joseph Roberts One thing I want is a world without nuclear weapons. So does Lucy Walker whose film Countdown to Zero opened … Read more

And then there was Light

Ancient and mysterious, this phenomenon continues to dazzle us by Geoff Olson Light strikes us to the core. A fiery sunset, an intense rainbow or … Read more