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 resul…
Global Stage
The Death Of Fact In Online Journalism. Bye-Bye Fact Checkers, Hello Gullibility.
BY: RYAN BOLTON “Whoa, Banksy just got arrested!” my co-worker, Eugene, yells out, astonished. Two minutes later, the story popped up on my Facebook feed. We couldn’t believe it. The elusive street ar…
Is Your Lifestyle Eco-Friendly or Ego-Friendly? Understanding “Greenwashing”.
BY: KESTREL In the age of mass media, ideas are stripped to their bare bones and forced to dance for the global marketing puppet show. Brand managers and market analysts, the new navigators of the twe…
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…
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 curren…
Welcome To Trashland: José Ferreira Captures Two Women Eating a Decomposing Dog
BY: JOSÉ FERREIRA Just a few metres from the airport in Maputo, Mozambique’s capital city, is the Huléne dump. Here, several hundred people frantically search through mounds of garbage for forgotten t…
“The Mountain That Eats Man”: The Child Miners of Bolivia
BY: JONAS WRESCH The sun begins to rise and a silver light begins to illuminate the terracotta rooftops of the city of Potosi, Bolivia. It is 5 a.m. Thousands of men, women and children make their way…
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 5t…
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…
Indonesia’s Modernization of The Mentawai Means Burning Down Villages To Make Room For Loggers
BY: PAOLO MESSINA Among the Indonesian rainforests of Siberut, off the coast of Sumatra live a people who maintain their age-old ways. In the comparative isolation of the Mentawai Islands they live a …
How the Aboriginal Drunk Beggar I Met Barhopping Changed Me
BY: LILITH I’d been barhopping that night in downtown Toronto with three other people, and we were trekking to the bus stop around 2 a.m. I’m not sure why, but whenever I’ve been drinking, I feel the …
Internet service providers want you to pay per page: Net Neutrality
BY: SARAH HOWELL On September 10, the speed of the Internet may have made you want to put your fist through the screen. The lag was more than just a test of users’ patience, an interruption in your “O…
Free Range Humans: Taking career choices out of the corporate cage
BY: LAURA ROJAS Marianne Cantwell begins her book with a comparison between humans and cattle. Standing nose-to-armpit with five hundred other commuters, she can’t help but remember graphic images of …
Between cashing oil sands paycheques and traditional hunting, Fort McKay is sleeping with the devil
BY: CONNOR BRIAN The first thing I noticed was the heavy taste of sulphur on my tongue. As the twin-engine plane jerked up and down, my eyes ranged across the black vastness of the Athabasca Oil Sands…
The People’s Climate March wasn’t just a protest. It was a Populist Movement.
BY: TYLER FYFE PHOTOS BY: CONNOR BRIAN Just two days before world leaders are scheduled to debate environmental action at the United Nations Climate Summit, hundreds of thousands of protesters took to…
What does life without work look like? Get ready for the post-labour economy
BY: JESSICA BURDE In the distant future, no one needs to work. Energy is available wherever people can set up a solar panel, windmill, or hydro-turbine. A.I. Wish units, distant descendants of today’s…
The General of Kenya’s Mau Mau uprising: Beyond western portrayals of a broken Africa
BY: MARY BETH KOETH Among the most fertile land in Kenya lives a 92-year old man named Japhlet Thambu, whose tea farmhouse doors face towards the sacred Mount Kenya. Among these hills he is known as “…
Aerial photos of civilization give a new perspective on “progress”
BY: BERNHARD LANG When viewed from above, the human scale seems almost artificial. Like little miniature figurines we seem almost ignorant of the size our own existence. The Aerial Views of Bernhard L…
These photos of Africans with mental illness show a disturbing assault on human dignity
BY: ROBIN HAMMOND Locked in tin shacks and chained to rusty hospital beds, Africans with mental illness have been abandoned by their government, neglected by foreign aid advocates, and persecuted by t…
I got legally ordained as a priest in 5 minutes
BY: KESTREL After spending five minutes on the website of the Universal Life Church of Modesto, California, I now apparently know enough to officiate weddings and funerals. While waiting for my toast…