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

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

Rights are won through popular struggles. But once enacted into law, they have to be enforced.  Governments are usually reluctant […]

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

[Adapted from an article by Warren Allmand in publication “Ideas, Interests & Issues, by George Maclean and Brenda O’Neill 2008 […]

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

Hired Guns, Big Bucks, No Rules

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

Chef by Jaspreet Singh, 2008, Vehicule Press, Montreal. Jaspreet Singh drips tomato juice from his lips and sucks on mangoes, […]

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

A Montreal Incident

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

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

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

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