BY: ALEX DOWNHAM After a “slump” in London, Ontario’s music scene, local Preston Ell has morphed his own house into Satan’s Cove, the city’s smallest all-ages venue. Inspired by the Do-It-Yourself (DIY) movement, Ell’s bungalow – home to three others…
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We Carve Pumpkins At Halloween Because Of A Guy Who Hung Out With Satan
BY: AL DONATO At some point in your life, you might find yourself arms-deep in pumpkin guts, seeds falling out of your hair and resisting the urge to carve something phallic into the offending squash. The tradition of carving jack-o’-lanterns…
My First Time In A Sensory Deprivation Tank
BY: DANIEL KORN I’m on the phone with Jesse Ratner-Decle, the owner of Float Toronto, a sensory-deprivation-tank centre on the west end of the city. Customers pay to go into an enclosed, pitch-black, completely soundproof tank and float on their…
NBOMes: Legal Synthetic Hallucinogens Are 10 Times Stronger Than LSD and 10 Times More Deadly.
BY EMMA MCINTOSH A new class of synthetic drugs similar to LSD has arrived on the market, and they’re called NBOMes. Originally synthesized in 2003, NBOMes were created to aid in the mapping of serotonin receptors in the brain. However,…
Medical Tourism: Why Millions Each Year Are Trading Bikinis For Hospital Gowns.
BY: SARAH HOWELL The stigma of traveling to a foreign country to receive medical care is long plagued by urban myths of straw hut clinics, rusty surgical tools and Freddy Krueger plastic surgery results. In recent years it seems that…
Learning To Pull The Strings Of A Stranger’s Subconscious: NLP
BY: TED BARNABY Neuro-Linguistic Programing (NLP), in short, is the method of performing mild hypnosis through conversation for the purpose of persuasion. By using certain verbal and non-verbal language patterns, an NLP master can trigger specific responses in their subject’s…
Growing Up Gay In A Military Family
BY: CHRISTINE CELIS “Law enforcement and the military are both boys’ clubs,” said Carlos*, 22, as he sat down in front of me. “No matter where you go, those two fields are always full of manly men. Of course, there…
Why do Artists Have to be Poor and Fucked Up? A Portrait of Author Andrew Kaufman
BY: AYA TSINTZIRAS Andrew Kaufman writes in a notebook, seated at a tiny circular table in a courtyard. The tiles below him are stone, and the building above him is beige stucco. It’s a mere façade, though, standing above a…
Redefining Home On Native Land: Inside British Columbia’s Fight For Aboriginal Territory
BY: KELSEY ROLFE No British Columbia premier has ever met with the Tsilhqot’in Nation on their home turf. Nor had one ever sat down with aboriginal titleholders as equals. Christy Clark, B.C.’s current premier, was the first to do both…
This Photographer Captures The First Surfers To Ride Sub-Zero Arctic Swells
BY: ROB HOFFMAN Chris Burkard’s photography is a call to action for the traveler who refuses to see the world from the inside of a five-star resort, or overtop the latest edition of “Lonely Planet”. His catalogue of surfing, adventure,…
I moved to a remote cabin in Alaska. It was the best decision I’ve ever made
BY: HANNAH WRIGHT Some people shudder at the thought of living in the woods. For me, it was a gateway to another realm. In a society that bleeds technology, instant gratification, and convenience, many of us are left craving challenge…
Industrial Agriculture Is The Worlds Largest Polluter: Urban Agriculture Over Globalized Growing
BY: Leah Hansen In any conversation about the state of the world today, the word “globalization” makes an appearance. Our world is more interconnected and closer than ever, and they say, we’re more aware of global issues now than ever…
Taking the Car out of the American Dream: Why Carless Living is Liberating
By: Jessica Burde I walked about two miles yesterday: half a mile to my counsellor’s office, half a mile back; a half-mile to and from the grocery store; and another half-mile between home and work. There are lots of places…
Public Schools Are Failing Our Children—Through the Eyes of a Homeschooler.
BY: JESSICA BURDE According to a study by the U.S. Department of Education and National Institute of Literacy, 32 million adults in the U.S. can’t read and 21% of American adults read below a 5th grade level. The reality is…
Telekinesis Is Here And Now. The Paralyzed Can Walk Again.
BY: KATY WILLIS Telekinesis was once a term reserved for the realm of science fiction. Today, it’s possible, and it’s becoming widely available. While there are some limitations—you can’t simply float a house, or even a pencil, with the power…
Country Fictions: Maybe There Was Once A Countryside
BY: JUAN ABALLE In the rural corners of the Iberian Peninsula, Juan Aballe shows a vision of the serene country road that exists within everyone’s imagination. Forever bathed in morning sunlight, conscious breath is the only pulse by which time…
There are massive cities in China where no one lives
BY: Ted Barnaby If you were to walk into a full-scale city with skyscrapers, condos, malls and shops—and there wasn’t a single person to be seen for miles, your first question would probably be: where the hell did everyone go?…
Hippies, Punks, Nomads, Nudists – Rainbow Gatherings are a Festival of Freedom (PHOTOS)
PHOTOS BY: BENOIT PAILLE In the isolation of the woods gather tribes of the miscellaneous and open-minded. From gays, punks, Christians, sectarians, nudists and Krishna followers, to Nomads and conspiracy theorists, like a vivid palate of paint; they meet at…
Can we justify space exploration when the Earth is in distress?
BY: ATLAS Bill Nye keeps a Canadian fiver in his wallet. Yes, that Bill Nye. The science guy. The one you—and anyone else who’s spent any time inside a North American classroom since the early ’90s—watched in science class. These…
Forget cancer and ebola: Antibiotic resistance is the world’s new major health yhreat
BY: The Plaid Zebra Are we returning to a medieval era where people will drop like flies from ordinary infections, where a child may not be able to survive a rusty nail through the foot or harsh bout of strep…