(Un)Holy Alliance: Creationism in Turkey

By fern hill
CBC Radio’s Overnight program is terrific. It takes news and features from public radio stations around the world: English-language services from BBC, Radio Sweden, Radio Africa, Australian Broadcasting Corp, and Deutsche Welle, among others.
The other night I caught part of a program from Deutsche Welle’s ‘Dialogue’ on creationism in Turkey, by Dorian [...]

Stephen Harper And Native Rights

Stephen Harper Plays The Race Card
by Luke
Most people would agree that a letter to the editor of a newspaper is not the proper way for a Prime Minister to announce major policy shifts. Furthermore, it is questionable behaviour not to accept the law as defined by Canadian courts. Stephen Harper did both in a letter [...]

The Sentimental Value of Motherhood

I was recently watching a comedy show where the comedian started talking about how Hollywood treats the Irish. He said you only need to look at the movie the Titanic to see that the Irish are expendable but of great sentimental value.
I thought that a very apt description of mothers, mothering and motherhood especially under [...]

Thinking the unthinkable about Canada’s future

by Geoff Olson
In the eye-opening film Hoodwinked: The Myth of Free Trade, former Liberal prime minister John Turner reflects on the mid-’80s battle over the North American Free Trade Agreement. After a famous heated exchange with Brian Mulroney, Turner lost the battle for Canadian hearts and minds on the divisive trade issue — and their [...]

Men’s magazines: it’s a zoo out there

Janice Turner
No wonder mothers are incensed at the mysogynist material in the newsagent. It’s worse than ever before

WHAT IS pornography? My dictionary says “literature treating obscene subjects” but since definitions of obscenity are in perpetual flux, it is probably more helpful to bring you bang up to date with one given this week by Phil [...]