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 to pop on a Thursday afternoon, I killed…
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The truth about job security
BY: JESSICA BURDE What makes a good job offer? In a Tower Watson Global Workforce Study, 32,000 employees were surveyed about what they look for in a job offer. The results of the survey were released in July: Job security…
Not all charities are created equal
BY SARAH HOWELL There is an unspoken assumption that charities will give away most of their profit. Between fundraisers, worker salaries, fees, and advertising, the true question stands: How much profit is left to support the suffering people who need…
Did Siberian mushroom shamans invent Santa Claus?
BY: PILGRIM 364 days Santa Claus waits patiently preparing for his big night in the icy seclusion of his frozen Northern estate, until finally, on December 24th, it is time. He descends from his winter fortress, burlap sack slung over…
Your laptop could be killing you: Electromagnetic poisoning in the digital age
By: KATY WILLIS In the Digital Age, electromagnetic radiation is everywhere. Even though you can’t see it or “feel” it, electromagnetic radiation is found in natural phenomena such as sunlight and in the form of visible and invisible light waves.…
The Toronto condo boom that killed community
by RYAN BOLTON I was in a CBC documentary about condos last fall. A film crew followed my lady and me around asking questions about condo life for some eight hours. They filmed us in our local dog park with…
A day in the life of a gay Toronto street kid
BY: GARY SEWARD It’s a humid summer night and the street is littered with the day’s newspapers, Starbucks cups, trash and all things discarded. The gleams from the streetlight strike the damp concrete creating an amber glow in the dusk.…
You might lose your creative job to a robot sooner than you think
Drawing upon the warnings of past industrial alarmists like Karl Marx or Ned Ludd, CGP Grey warns of the imposing threat of technology. History has shown us that technology often does not embrace the past, but rather overwrites it. Mechanical…
The death of consent in porn (condoms in porn California)
By GARY SEWARD INT. BEDROOM – NIGHT A well-lit room. Candles are on the surface of an IKEA style headboard. A woman, Jessica, in her twenties, black with the body of a gymnast is laying spread eagle on a plush…
Here are 4 reasons list articles are making you stupid
BY: TYLER FYFE We have begun to consume information in the same way we swallow fast food and frozen dinners. List articles are the McDouble of the mind, providing the same instant satisfaction and slow brewing disease as two hormone-injected…
Are you actually helping Africa?
BY: DAVID PATON In 1899 Rudyard Kipling, the likeable and well-meaning British author of The Jungle Book, penned a poem he entitled The White Man’s Burden. It was a love poem to colonialism, painting the world as it was –…
Why politics has become a dirty word
BY: THE PLAID ZEBRA Youth of today speak of the Canadian political system as if it has never belonged to them. Today we face a world characterized by forecasts of environmental catastrophe and a growing social inequality preserved by insatiable…
Fighting hunger instead of humans – Food Not Bombs
By JACKIE HONG Jon Stepanian’s a busy guy. He’s been up since 6 a.m. driving around Long Island, New York, picking up and logging food donations and then helping to distribute them. And he’s not even done yet – he’s…
Toronto designer, Jay Wall, fights corporate greed
BY:ATLAS One wintery night in early 2012, Jay Wall laid down a handmade stencil on a Toronto sidewalk. Crouched at the corner of College Street and Manning Avenue, he pulled out a can of white spray paint and began to…
The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline is a domestic project with global consequences
BY: TYLER FYFE PHOTOGRAPHY: CONNOR BRIAN Economy is not the opposite of environment. Profit is not synonymous with prosperity. Our idea of progress is its definition. The Enbridge Northern Gateway Pipeline was approved June 17th 2014, marking the beginning of the…