BY: AOIFE RYAN While the vast majority of the public presume the 1960s Save the Whales movement solved the plight of the largest mammal, Japan is planning on rolling out a virtual killing scheme next year in international waters. Who could…
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Elon Musk was fed up with America’s education system so he decided to build his own “unschool” (Video)
Elon Musk has attracted a lot of media attention recently, mainly for his company’s breakthrough invention of the Tesla Battery, but also for his legendary entrepreneurial history and status as “the real life Iron Man.” Recently, Musk made headlines by…
Meet the all-female militia hunting African Rhino poachers
BY: JACK M. The seemingly unquenchable demand for rhino horn as a folk medicine, especially in East Asia, has put the African rhino on top of the hit list of poachers, placing one of the planet’s most magnificent animals on…
Berlin just passed a rent-control law so that landlords can’t overcharge
BY: JESSICA BUEKER Berlin has become the first German city to pass rent-control legislation. According to the Guardian, starting Monday landlords will be prohibited from increasing rents by more than 10 per cent above the local average. The new law…
Jon Stewart just turned his farm in New Jersey into an animal sanctuary for abused pets
Jon Stewart’s larger than life on-screen personality notoriously captured the attention of a youth-audience, using comedy to successfully introduce politics to a previously disengaged crowd. In April, his audience was thoroughly disappointed to learn that Jon would be stepping down…
This city is using tiny house villages to fight homelessness
BY: TYLER FYFE It’s 5:30pm on a Friday and on the sidewalk a line is starting to build outside of the Good Shepherd Centre. Frayed blue tarps clipped to backpacks, and calloused hands clutch soggy cardboard with bleeding marker ink.…
California is giving free solar panels to poor households by taxing corporations for GHG emissions
BY: DANIEL KORN California is, by a wide margin, the best state in the US for solar energy. Over a million homes in the state have solar panels installed—compared to the second-best state, Nevada, which only has about 50 thousand…
France just made it illegal for supermarkets to waste food, punishable by $75,000 or jail
BY: ROB HOFFMAN In the past few months France has established a number of green initiatives in response to a severe air pollution spike and an increasing demand from activists and an ecologically-concerned population. In the wake of their green roof…
This man exposes the fucked up industry that milks living bears’ organs to mix with vodka (Video)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA In Vietnam, bear-bile is in high demand. Mixed into vodka as a status symbol, or ingested to reap a number of falsely-believed ‘medicinal benefits’, bear-bile serves a completely useless industry of ignorance and severe animal cruelty.…
How Medellín used urban planning as a weapon to fight violent cartels and won
BY: VICTORIA STUNT A little girl, about three years old, is the only passenger on a miniature merry-go-round. The tiny horses are delicately painted. A tattered “Pilsen” beer umbrella is used to shade them, instead of the usual over-decorated roof…
A stalker stole my identity on Facebook, threatened my life and no one did shit
BY: NICOLE SCHMIDT It’s late. The sun had dipped behind the buildings of the London Ontario skyline hours ago and a dimly lit moon is suspended in its place. Illuminated by nothing but the faint glow of the sky, the…
Governor of Minnesota in the top 1% started taxing the rich and now the 99% are thriving
BY: DANIEL KORN In 2010, after previous unsuccessful political campaigns, Mark Dayton was finally elected as the Governor of Minnesota. In the years since, he has instated several progressive policies. Dayton has raised taxes on tobacco and individuals who make…
How “The Revolving Door” has made contemporary politics a puppet show
BY: MITCHELL THOMPSON The Federal government has attempted to stop revolving door practices by banning officials from working for companies that they had dealings with in their final year in office. However Duff Conacher of Democracy Watch argues that the…
A 55-year-old Japanese man is sacrificing himself to save Fukushima’s abandoned and radioactive animals
The entire world was watching when the devastating Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster hit Fukushima, Japan in 2011. After six nuclear reactors broke down due to an earthquake-triggered tsunami, 160,000 people were forced to evacuate and relocate to emergency shelters outside…
The publisher of Vangardist magazine prints the latest issue with ink infused with HIV-positive blood
BY: MATTHEW CHIN The newest issue of the magazine took the blood of three HIV-positive volunteers that range from three different demographics: as a 32-year-old straight male, a 26-year-old homosexual male, and a 47-year-old mother. Although the magazine caters to…
America’s unfair and counterproductive workers’ rights desperately need a facelift
BY: SARAH HOWELL According to a study by Time magazine, Americans said they can’t “afford to use their vacation days.” Furthermore, the findings suggested that, although many Americans are employed full-time, only 15% of workers felt comfortable taking vacation days.…
Photographer captures the lives of a hidden slum that resides beside an active railroad (Photos)
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Kolkata based photographer Debosmita Das first discovered the slum that runs along an active railroad on her route to work. The residents welcomed Das into their community and allowed her to photograph their dangerous lifestyle. In her…
Amnesty says a Canadian mining company made profit off the eviction of thousands from their homes
BY: MITCHELL THOMPSON The US State Department says that during this time, Myanmar “continued to be ruled by a highly authoritarian military regime widely condemned for its serious human rights abuses. The military Government, known as the State Law and…
Irish activists are using clever street art to fight the ignorant opposition to gay marriage
BY: AOIFE RYAN For a small island nation with a population of just 4.5 million people, Ireland’s cultural and political reach has spread remarkably far across the globe. This year, May 22nd to be exact, the controversial marriage equality referendum…
Why “Maple Syrup Rebels” are being prosecuted worse than drug dealers in Canada
BY: ZOE MELNYK Canada may be known for its easy going, low key demeanour, but there is an issue within Canada’s borders that is taking away people’s right to privacy and ruining the lives of private producers in a multi-million…