How 9/11 taught me to seek truth
by Drew Noftle In 2005, I was living a luxurious life in Beijing, China, as the private English teacher for Yang Kaisheng, then President of the Industrial Commercial Bank of…
Eat the light – the fourth age of solar is on the way…
by Geoff Olson In a 2000 interview on CBC Radio’s Ideas, ethnobotanist Wade Davis recalled a “horrific book that came out called The Secret Life of Plants.” One of Davis’ plant-gathering…
How Canada can avoid an American corporate takeover
by Drew Noftle What do you call a country where the gap between the rich and the poor is growing beyond bounds, the principal exports are wood pulp and scrap…
Caesar’s last breath
by Geoff Olson Breathe in. Breathe out. Now consider this: every breath you take contains at least one air molecule exhaled by Julius Caesar in his last breath. With your…
Higher education just got higher
by Naseem Salila Gulamhusein As human beings, our greatness lies not so much in being able to remake the world, as in being able to remake ourselves. – Mohandas Gandhi…