BY: DAN BOIVIN We’ve all heard it before, a new technology comes along and promises to shift the balance of power in the world of energy, disrupting the “business as usual practices” we are all too familiar with. But then,…
The Instagram generation perceives every moment as an anticipated memory
BY: LAURA ROJAS Professor Daniel Kahneman, a renowned psychologist and Nobel Prize winner, did a TED Talk back in 2010 on the difference between experience and memory. His main thesis, and something I hadn’t even thought about prior to watching his…
Let’s Put Canadian Women On Bank Notes Already
BY: SINEAD MULHERN It’s 2014 and the Bank of Canada has yet to print a Canadian woman’s face on any of our country’s bank notes. In 2011, the Bank of Canada put The Famous Five and activist Therese Casgrain on the…
India Officially Recognizes “The Third Gender”. These Photos Show The Face of Transgender Struggle.
BY: SAHAR FADAIAN Cultural taboos, federal regulations, and family rejection have given the Transgender Women of South India little choices for survival. During the years that Sahar Fadaian lived in Bangalore, India she noticed that most “Hijra” have been defamed…
Raëlians believe that alien scientists designed humans. I went to one of their meetings.
BY: EMMA MCINTOSH I’m 15 minutes early for the November Raëlian meditation gathering. I have no idea what to expect. Aside from a few visits to church as a kid, I’ve never attended a spiritual meeting, let alone one for…
These Photos Of Exotic Pets And Their Owners Might Make You Reconsider That Golden Retriever
BY: KAILEE MANDEL Matt & Maura-Eurasian Eagle Owl Eurasian Eagle Owls are arguably the largest species of owls, with an average wingspan of 6.5ft. These owls usually build their nests on the edge of cliffs and prey on mammals the…
Forget Everything You’ve Heard: Satanism Sounds More Like Activism Than Blasphemy
BY: MICHAEL LYONS Satanists are making their way into our schools! Satanists are out to get our children! Satanists are trying to convert our nation’s kids to the dangerous, infective belief in critical thought… oh, the humanity! This isn’t an…
Peaches in panties: How peaches became the sexiest fruit on earth
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Mr. Yao might just be the world’s…ahem…cheekiest fruit vendor. The Chinese owner of online fruit shop, Fruit Hunters, has become famous for dressing up peaches in mini panties to sell as novelty items for Qixi – China’s…
Filmmaker Devin Graham proves that failure is success in progress
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Devin Graham stands at the forefront of a shifting media landscape that takes filmmaking out of the hands of big-budget producers and instead makes it available to a vastly broader population. This democratization of filmmaking excites and inspires…
How To Record Heavy Guitar Part 2
This week, Glenn teaches headbangers to properly dial a guitar amp so their recordings don’t torture listeners with a sound like the static noise of a broken car radio. This is probably the most overlooked aspect of recording, some guitarists…
It Was My First Time Snorting Anything: This Was My Experience With Ketamine
BY: LILITH I did my first ever line of ketamine off a cheap wooden patio table at a shitty bar in downtown Toronto. My friend and provider, a seasoned raver, didn’t have any straws on him, so he rolled up…
People swim with rotting corpses in Varanasi to cleanse themselves of sin
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM Western Judeo-Christian values have morphed death into an aspect of life we run from. But in Varanasi, India, death is something to anticipate and embrace. Varanasi – one of Hinduism’s seven holiest cities – was built between…
Beard Yeast Is A Main Ingredient In Beard Beer. Apparently It’s Less Cringe-Worthy Than Expected.
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Rogue Beer has found an ingredient in an unlikely place: their Brewmaster’s beard. John Maier, who joined the company in 1989 after a career as an engineer, hasn’t shaved his beard since 1978. Brett Joyce, Rogue’s president,…
The Drone Economy Is Coming And Canada Is Heading The Flock
BY: KELSEY ROLFE Jason Toth spent five days in early October working from a large skiff off the picturesque northeastern coast of Vancouver Island, using a custom-built drone to capture video footage of British Columbia’s waterfalls, mountains, sea lions, salmon,…
What Does America Look Like Through The Eyes Of A Tourist? These Photos Will Make You Understand
BY: RON GESSEL Streets overwhelmed by advertisements, shopping malls and fast food, celebrity obsession and hypersexualized imagery—is this really the America that tourists bear witness to? Caught in the normalized state of society, we often do not take a moment to…
Mpreg Central Is A Forum Of Men Who Take The Idea of Male Pregnancy Very Seriously
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS In a 1994 article in The New York Times, Dick Teresi cites the Arnold Schwarzenegger movie Junior where a scientist, Dr. Alex Hesse, becomes pregnant after being implanted with an egg and taking a fertility drug he…
The Gulabi Gang Of India: These Warrior Women Wear Pink And Fight Oppression
BY: LISA CUMMING A hurricane of pink is rumbling through India, and it has been for almost a decade now. The Gulabi (Pink) Gang, formally established in 2006, by Sampat Pal Devi in the Banda District of Uttar Pradesh is…
Blind runner just ran an 885 kilometre trail in just 20 days
BY: SINEAD MULHERN Rhonda-Marie Avery has only eight percent vision, but just completed an incredible feat of endurance this past summer that most people with the privilege of full vision would never even dream of. This Barrie, Ontario woman ran the…
Iceland: Home Of Vikings, Green Technology and People Who Are Actually Happy
BY: HANNAH WRIGHT Iceland is a vast landscape of fjords, glaciers, lava fields, and beauty as far as the eye can see. Picture a country where schools still insist on teaching their students the ancient sagas. It’s a place full…
Guaranteed Income Doesn’t Equate To Laziness—The Dauphin Experiment Might Change Your Mind About Socialism
BY: ALEXANDER DOWNHAM In Canada 2014, it’s hard to believe the Great White North’s been anything but an advocate for neoliberal economic policies. Since the 1980s, Conservative politicians like Brian Mulroney and Stephen Harper have persuaded Canadians to adopt individualist,…