Pretentious books; Killing you with kindness; Another Arar
The Globe mentioned yet another Canadian detained overseas in suspicious circumstances today, one I hadn’t heard of, despite my serious news addiction (his n...
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Looking for mentors for Northern youth
My awesome friend Sara is looking for people with a couple hours a month to spare mentoring youth in the Yukon, to help high school students plan a career fo...
On cultural appropriation
So the anarchist marching band I play in had a long workshop yesterday about cultural appropriation, and how we could try to decide when it was appropriate t...
Electricity & music
For those of you interested in this sort of thing, the first episode of the CBC Radio series The Wire, a wide-ranging 2005 documentary about the impact of el...