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January, 2009

Editorial

02-01-09
Rights! Right! Rana Bose

Rights are hard to locate. One man’s rigorous beliefs in his “cultural” assertion are another woman’s confinement and destitution. The  Read more…
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Art

02-01-09
Genocide – Stella Pace Stella Pace

Stella Pace’s concern is humanity: humanity grappling with the difficulties of reality, humanity torn apart by insane suffering. It is  Read more…

Commentary

02-01-09
Worker Rights Stan Gray

Rights are won through popular struggles. But once enacted into law, they have to be enforced.  Governments are usually reluctant  Read more…
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Photo Essay

02-01-09
Montreal Shoe-Ting Action Photo Essay Darren Ell & Maria Worton

Text: Maria Worton This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who  Read more…

Commentary

02-01-09
The International Recognition of Indigenous Rights Warren Allmand

[Adapted from an article by Warren Allmand in publication "Ideas, Interests & Issues, by George Maclean and Brenda O'Neill 2008  Read more...
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Photo Essay

02-01-09
Daily Life in Cerro de San Pedro

In the course of this year, Tamara Herman has documented impacts of and resistance to Canadian mining in the historic  Read more…

Commentary

02-01-09
Making a Killing Aziz Choudry

Hired Guns, Big Bucks, No Rules
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Film Review

02-01-09
Persepolis Maya Khankhoje

Persepolis, 2007. Animated drama. Persepolis is an Oscar-nominated film that premiered last year and which I regret not having seen  Read more…
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Book Review

02-01-09
Chef : Hot cuisine, Cold frontier, Sad land with No rights! A book by Jaspreet Singh

Chef by Jaspreet Singh, 2008, Vehicule Press, Montreal. Jaspreet Singh drips tomato juice from his lips and sucks on mangoes,  Read more…
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Film Review

02-01-09
Meta-Cake Eaters – The Films of 2008 Jesse Klein

Once, Bob Dylan and John Lennon were looked at with the same adoring, hopeful gaze now bestowed upon Warren Buffett  Read more…
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Music

02-01-09
Living by the Gun Matt Lipscombe

A Montreal Incident
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Photo Essay

02-01-09
DC Jumps for Obama Scott Weinstein

The Obama victory was jubilantly celebrated in Washington DC (sometimes referred to as Chocolate City). I was there for the  Read more…

Poetry

02-01-09
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 & Dolphins Don’t Blow Each Other Up Julie Mahfood

Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 On the phone, you told me you’d found Jesus, that you never really lost him, just  Read more…

Poetry

02-01-09
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 & Dolphins Don’t Blow Each Other Up Julie Mahfood

Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 On the phone, you told me you’d found Jesus, that you never really lost him, just  Read more…
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Book Review

02-01-09
The Case for Literature by Gao Xingjian Maya Khankhoje

The Case for Literature. By Gao Xingjian. Yale University Press, 2006. Gao Xingjian, playwright, novelist, essayist and painter born in  Read more…

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