Fighting the good fight – the Winnipeg General Strike of 1919
photo: A crowd attempts to tip over a tramway car during the Winnipeg General Strike, June 21, 1919 (Credit: Library and Archives Canada/C-034024) The Winnipeg General Strike of 1919 was…
Dragon Jars and Lotus Bowls
– a talk by Jennifer Fahrni – An award-winning artist’s contribution to international culture Jean MacKay Fahrni (1919-2019) I’m normally introducing The Irish Rovers to audiences of 5000, so I…
Nicanor Perlas on artificial intelligence
The 21st century is an age defined by Science and Technology. It is also a time in which humanity faces a unique and unprecedented challenge: artificial intelligence (AI). If properly…
StarWise – June 2019
STARWISE by Mac McLaughlin Astrologers are basically cosmic traffic cops. They can tell us what’s going on with cosmic phenomena such as full moons, eclipses, etc., and they can help…
Major civil liberties, media freedom, and human rights groups speak out against the arrest of Julian Assange
Who is Julian Assange and why is he important? Julian Assange is an Australian journalist who founded WikiLeaks in 2006. Julian was the editor of WikiLeaks until September 2018: six…
Bastards and bodhisattvas – from high hopes to high office
– by Geoff Olson – This month I’ve been tasked to write on “why voters don’t trust politicians once they get into power.” The simple answer is that they’re all…
Breaking the internet feedback loop
– by A.N. Turner – You, me and everyone we know We are drowning in a sea of free information. The Internet is in our businesses and homes, our bedrooms….
What Leo Tolstoy had to say
The Russian writer Lev Nikolayevitch Tolstoy (1828 – 1910) – usually rendered as Leo Tolstoy – was a philosopher and social activist who had a major influence on the development…
StarWise – May 2019
STARWISE by Mac McLaughlin The new moon and full moon take place in Taurus this month. Let’s dig into this sign a bit. Taurus is a fixed Earth sign. Generally,…
Biophilia and the health benefits of nature
– by Chanchal Cabrera and Thierry Vrain – Nature Deficit Disorder is an informal diagnostic term used to describe what happens when people disconnect from their natural surroundings. Most of…