We’re not idiots. But as Canadians, we’re told things, contradictory things, things that don’t add up… about Afghanistan, our mission, […]

  Artist Biography:  Lyne Lapointe’s career dates back to the early eighties, when she rapidly made a name for herself […]

Fennario’s War (41 minutes) is a simple film. The Montreal playwright, David Fennario, reads a text in his Verdun apartment […]

  I’ve known Jason Breckenridge for many years and over that time the two insights I’ve gained about what makes […]

Introduction: When I left Montreal on February 15th I knew that this would not be a predictable trip.  From all […]

      Hey kids! Want a career with a dubious future? A job where you get paid to play […]

A cosmic motherly-sounding voice has always told me that even the darkest of clouds have silver linings. The past two […]

  In the following short reconstructed video, De-Construction, I’ve used a home video report from Gaza and extracts from other […]

                Urban Iran Mark Batty Publisher www.markbattypublisher.com 130 pages, hard cover, $27.95 US/ […]

[Short listed by the CBC-Quebec Writers Federation Literary Competition and first published in In Other Words. New English Writing from […]

  All militarization has environmental consequences.  All of which have little to do with democracy. The other day, Montreal economist, […]

Unembedded. Two Decades of Maverick War Reporting. By Scott Taylor.  Douglass & McIntyre, 2009.   Review by Maya Khankhoje Unembedded […]

     ‘A Modest Proposal’ is from Norman Nawrocki’s anti-war, anti-Empire solo CD, ‘Duck Work’ released in 2004 on the Les Pages […]

     Standing on the sidelines of the parade grounds, they are old now, grandmothers, great-grandmothers; women who forfeited their […]

    May you die, in a coffin buried with tears, Buried with the youth of my years, Buried with […]

  From thickset specky windows   he eye-balls the tough job warp and weft of the launch pad as it […]

  Look through grandmother’s kitchen window: a concrete airstrip, wheat fields, red poppies, cornflowers. Forsythia, osier willows in bomb craters. […]

  In the rush of city life, it is exceptional for a large gathering of people to get together to […]