BY: JESSICA BEUKER REI, the Seattle-based outdoor recreation and sporting goods retailer announced on October 27th that they will close for Black Friday this year. Not only that, but they will also be paying their 12,000 employees to go outside…
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Danish town is using green energy to fight emissions and go carbon neutral by 2029
BY: SWIKAR OLI Sønderborg Municipality knows the effects of climate change well. Bound on either side by sea, the area is exposed to harder storms and coastal flooding. With climate change bringing extreme weather globally, Sønderborg has a plan to…
Here are some things that Canadians can hope for now that Harper is out
BY: ERIK HUSTON The October 19th election was a doozie. Tensions have always been high between parties but never have the stakes been this stacked. Justin Trudeau, Stephen Harper, Tom Mulcair and Elizabeth May battled it out in an intense…
A small African nation is building a massive plant to become the world’s solar super-power
BY: DAVID LAO The saying “the grass is always greener on the other side” was created to describe the inherently curious nature of humans. It has been related to envy and jealousy, but also the need to accomplish more, to…
Chicago is turning their busiest train into a rolling library for one very good reason
BY: JESSICA BEUKER Chicago also has a notoriously bad education system. It’s also a city plagued by gang violence. It’s a vicious circle that the Windy City desperately needs to break out of. Seventy nine percent of Chicago 8th graders…
Norway’s capital is investing in the future by going car-free
Oslo is banning all private vehicles in its city centre by the year 2019. The city elected the leftist Labour Party this past September, who teamed up with the Green Party and the Socialist Left to make the change. The…
Becoming a vegetarian is the easiest way to save the planet
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS Forty years ago vegetarianism wasn’t accepted. People didn’t have the means to get cognizant about what they were consuming before they consumed it. Twenty years ago it was difficult for vegetarians to grocery shop. Ten years ago,…
An innocent VICE journalist is being unjustly imprisoned in Southeast Turkey
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS The Turkish government wrongly detained Mohammed Rasool, an accomplished freelance journalist, 56 days ago. Today, Rasool is still floating in the pre-trial investigation stage while being held in Adana Kürkçüler Prison. Constant pressure needs to be kept…
Those little white beads in your face wash are actually tiny spheres from hell
BY: SYDNEY MCINNIS It’s Sunday night; you start the workweek again tomorrow morning and you desperately need to take a shower if you don’t want to offend any of your customers. Shit! You don’t have any body wash. So, you…
Civil War is leaving the door open for the liberation of women in Syria
BY: AIDAN MACNAB Aylan Kurdi was the two-year-old boy whose corpse, photographed washed up on a Turkish beach, shook the world. Sympathy for his tragic end ignited the globe. Refugees had been asphyxiating in crates, drowning in the Mediterranean, starving…
These journalists used Snapchat to live stream the migration of refugees from Syria to Germany
BY: DAVID LAO The huge influx of Syrian refugees towards the west has received an explosion of media coverage over the last few months, raising debates on topics including Europe’s treatment of refugees as well as whether or not they’re…
Eye-opening video compares America’s annual death toll from terrorist attacks to gun violence
BY: JESSICA BEUKER On October 1st, a 26-year-old gunman opened fire on a community college campus in southern Oregon. The rampage left nine people dead and another nine injured. The gunman, Christopher Harper-Mercer, shot his victims in a classroom before…
Here are the weirdest Canadian political parties that you never knew existed
BY: AIDAN MACNAB This was the longest election campaign in over 100 years and as far as Canadians can tell, they have three options tomorrow: NDP, Conservative, or Liberal. But the truth is we have a much more diverse set…
The World Bank projects global poverty rates to drop below 10 per cent for the first time ever
BY: DAVID LAO If you haven’t noticed yet, life ain’t easy for everybody. Some of us get a free ride while others have to work ceaselessly to make ends meet. Today, being born into a bit more money can make…
The Feds are being sued for turning a blind eye to Nestlé’s drought crimes
BY: TYLER FYFE If you found yourself walking though the pines of San Bernardino National Forest, you would also find yourself stumbling upon metal scaffolding and a 4-inch stainless steel pipe. The pipe stretches from Strawberry Creek to a Nestlé…
10 photos compare the environmental cost of mining to the tiny amount of product it yields
BY: JOHN DILLON Photos: Dillon Marsh You might think twice before falling victim to the famous De Beers Ad Campaign and proposing to your lover with an opulent diamond ring after seeing the massive amounts of landmass they have removed…
For the first time in American history more women are graduating from college than men
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In 1940, under five per cent of the U.S. population held a bachelor’s degree. Of the population that did, men were much more likely to have a college education than women. In fact, it would have taken…
Photos reveal a depressing truth when men are Photoshopped out of World institutions
BY: JESSICA BEUKER In the past 20 years the percentage of women in parliament has almost doubled. The bad news is that even doubled, that number sits at a meagre 22 per cent. It’s a number that leaves me disheartened,…
“Churnalism” is the McDouble of the mind in the age of fast-food information
BY: TYLER FYFE I sit at my desk, strained eyes broiled by the white light of my laptop screen, mouses constantly clicking like an insolent metronome. I’m thinking about all the stories that are being left untold—the important stories just…
Google is preparing for a zero-waste economy where all products are 100% recyclable
BY: TYLER FYFE In nature, the earth is both a starting block and a finish line. So what if we thought about our factories the same way? Behold the most basic explanation of a circular economy. Imagine if instead of…