Text by Maria Worton This is a farewell kiss, you dog! This is from the widows, the orphans and those who were killed in Iraq. Here in Montreal, on December 20th, Block the Empire, a local collective working against occupation […]
[Adapted from an article by Warren Allmand in publication “Ideas, Interests & Issues, by George Maclean and Brenda O’Neill 2008 (Pearson-Prentice Hall). Adapted from an article originally published by Rights & Democracy.] Throughout the world, it is widely recognized that […]
Canadian multinational New Gold Inc. is operating a heavily-contested open pit gold and silver mine in Cerro de San Pedro, Mexico. For over 10 years, the residents of Cerro de San Pedro and the surrounding area have been fighting the […]
Persepolis is an Oscar-nominated film that premiered last year and which I regret not having seen on the big screen. Based on a graphic autobiographical novel by Marjane Satrapi, the author and her studio mate Vincent Paronnaud created a highly […]
The Obama victory was jubilantly celebrated in Washington DC (sometimes referred to as Chocolate City). I was there for the Clinton victory over Bush1, but that was a quaint tea party compared to this wild bumping throw-down. I squeezed myself […]
Apocalyptic Phone Call, 2002 On the phone, you told me you’d found Jesus, that you never really lost him, just strayed, made your way back, and I should read my gospels, all of them, Old Testament and New, familiarize myself […]
Gao Xingjian, playwright, novelist, essayist and painter born in eastern China and self-exiled in Paris, was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1992. In 2000 he went on to receive the […]
(suite de «Mtl, blues divers I») encore ce faux printemps en mars comme un attrape-nigaud dans cet hiver de force ducharmien qui m’échappe irrémédiablement et me confine à la déréliction la plus compulsive…) enfin cette ville aux rues sales et […]
Cartoon by: Susan Dubrofsky On the 25th of May in 1967 in a remote hamlet, in a district called Darjeeling, in India, in the police station areas of Naxalbari, Phansidewa and Khoribari a minor but significant incident had occurred. A […]
Animal’s People. By Indra Sinha, Simon and Schuster, London, 2007. On December 2, 1984, the Union Carbide pesticide plant in Bhopal, India, leaked methylisocyanate gas into the atmosphere causing the death of over 15,000 people and maiming hundreds of thousands […]
A Conversation Ring … Ring …. Ring …. They called last evening. “We do not want you to do what you are doing.” “It is not just me, there are others” “We know that. You must stop them”. “But they […]
There were twelve of us in three cars driving from Montreal to Baie St-Paul and I was the only English-speaking person among eleven French-Canadians. We had decided to go whale watching and Baie St-Paul, situated in Charlevoix on the Fleuve […]
Unhung paintings stood stacked against a metal shelf. Inside four walls on Rue Mariette. The easel. Tubes of acrylic and oils. Boar bristle brushes. Black electric guitar in its case. Petunias in window boxes. Narrow pine shutters. A brick and […]
flux fleuve st-laurent i am the river. my ripples shift shaping glyphs. can you read me? the iroquois did – by the glint the sun shot over my liquid lips. poets whose words flood undammed from mad minds, whose thoughts […]
(Every few months, perhaps weeks, there is a major Coal mine accident in China. Environmental issues are not just climate change issues, but health and safety issues for the poor of China and elsewhere.) Rana Bose December 10, 2004 […]
Communist Hot Dogs, In Pursuit of Petula, and A Kiss from Marlene Dietrich The fortieth anniversary of the opening of Expo ’67 unleashed a flood of memories for me. As soon as season passes became available, passes which took […]
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