Arbor Day is upon us. It’s a special day dedicated to planting trees and increasing awareness about the importance of trees. As a tree, this holiday is obviously very close to my heart. I know I don’t have an actual heart but you don’t have to be so god damn literal every god damn second [...]
Far from the bustle of BC’s lower mainland, and tucked away between the Kootenay and Okanagan regions, and occupying the peripheral milieu of Crowsnest Highway 3, lies the sparsely populated Boundary Country. In the heart of this fabled land is the Corporation of the City of Grand Forks, population 4,113 (Commerce, 2005), the capital and [...]
THE PATH TO DEPENDENCY: UNDERSTANDING NEOLIBERALISM
“…since the others become men in name against us, it seems that we are the enemies of mankind; the elite shows itself in its true colors – it is nothing more than a gang.”
-Jean-Paul Sartre; preface to Frantz Fanon’s Wretched of the Earth
To quote Jean-Paul Sartre, when it is his words that [...]
Sasha’s footsteps echoed loudly on the bleached red cedar planks. The forest was old and so did not say much. She didn’t mind. She had run ahead of the others, hoping to lose them and find some respite. The day had been long, with her watching over children that were not her own. She took [...]
Children and War: Modern Transitions of Violence
Vast changes in warfare have transformed the recent narratives of human conflict and violence. While we generally think of the advent of nuclear technology as the frightening climax of this ongoing story, there are other developments and transitions that go largely unnoticed. Our stereotypes of modern warfare are often grossly simplistic, and fail to [...]
Life is like the tattered coat of a beggar
To which, every day, a new rag of pain is added.
– Faiz Ahmed Faiz, A Few Days More
A mad yellow mongrel
in scabrous heat:
Calcutta’s sun in May,
stalking with its tongue
lolling, red and blazing.
With [...]
“‘Every day, the number of kids dying of malaria equals seven Boeing 747s going down.’ DDT can fix that.” (Wente).
Malaria is the leading cause of death of the African youth under five (Wente). DDT is an insecticide which can effectively reduce the outbreak of malaria by diminishing the transmitter, mosquitoes. DDT was used [...]
Jared and the dog stared each other down. Between them, the glass door was smeared with paw prints. Jared held his surgical mask in his hand. The dog couldn’t hear him over the howling and barking from back inside the building. Go away, mouthed Jared at the dog. The dog barked at him. No, mouthed [...]
THERE WERE NO CROPS
There were no crops to pick up that day.
Despite being in his early twenties, his hands were rough and scarred and his expression hard, almost inanimate as if having to drag his body along was a burden itself. Both his denim overalls and his hat were so worn out that there was no [...]
IPCC FAQ PART DEUX (BURCH MIX): OR HOW TO CAPTURE THE CLIMATE CRAZE.
(Click here for the IPCC FAQ Part I)
Even those living under the oft-referenced proverbial rock would find it difficult these days to avoid the tempest of public opinion, news media attention, and political rhetoric swirling around the climate change issue. On the heels of Al Gore’s turn as an Oscar winner, and the [...]
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