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Doing Jack for Haiti

Derrick O'Keefe asks what it would take to compel NDP leader Jack Layton to bring up Canada's involvement in Haiti.

Another World Is Necessary: The World Social Forum decentralized

Bean Waiting

In the dirt floor, open fire kitchens of Guatemala, Moira Peters learns the fine art of cooking black beans.

In Guatemala black beans are prepared slowly, simply and saltily

The Battle of our Beers

Elizabeth Falcon discovers that 90% of the beers sold in Canada are owned by two foreign multinational corporations.

Multinationals crush craft ales in Canada's suds industry

Ce qui rend un scandale scandaleux

Dru Oja Jay s'interroge sur le silence des médias canadiens sur la question haïtienne alors que ceux-ci se sont acharnés sur l'affaire des voyages de Pierre Pettigrew.

Les médias et l'appartement de Pierre Pettigrew, rue Aristide Bruant

The Politics of Brutality in Haiti

In Port-au-Prince, Aaron Lakoff reflects on Canada's role in Haiti's ongoing human rights disaster

Canada, the UN and "collateral damage"

Your Local Farmers Marketing

Dru Oja Jay investigates how small farmers are cutting out the 'middle man' and doing the marketing themselves.

Ontario organic farmers form cooperative to offset razor-thin margins

Where The Mountains Are Still Growing

Hillary Lindsay investigates the human cost of a 'business as usual' approach to climate change in Northeastern India.

Will mega dams in Manipur, India 'solve' climate change?

Who Owns The Climate?

Indigenous peoples demand a voice in climate change negotiations that are disproportionately impacting them. Hillary Lindsay listens in.

Indigenous leaders demand a voice in climate change negotiations

Please Remember Music

Thousands sing for revolution at the School of The Americas Protest in Fort Benning, Georgia. Carole Ferrari joins the chorus.

Song plays a central role at the School of the Americas Protest

"The Other" Way

The Zapatistas' New Direction

Of Sturgeon and Hydro Québec

Carole Ferrari dishes up a recipe for Sturgeon with bittersweet morsels of background on the ancient fish's fate.

Food from the rivers we are losing

Land Claims and Treaties and Bands, Oh My!

Canada's media stopped short of looking beyond the official line in coverage of the First Ministers' Meeting. Dru Oja Jay peeks at what they missed.

First Ministers' Meeting coverage begins and ends with official story

Tremblay's Remote Control

What do democracy and sustainability have to do with eachother? Van Ferrier finds out in Montreal.

How City Hall's 'closed bureaucratic culture' continues to drive Montreal away from sustainability

Remembering Bureaucracy

Not all war veterans are remembered

Where's The Boss?

Advocates say worker cooperatives will democratize the workplace - and they won't stop there. Hillary Lindsay investigates.

Worker cooperatives will change the way you think about democracy

December Books

Besner, Henderson, Taylor and Trafford review new work by Solie, Terpstra, Seymour, and deBeyer.

Give 'em the Boot!

Chris Arsenault travels to Chiapas to investigate a Zapatista owned and run boot cooperative that takes 'no-sweat' apparel to a new level.

Zapatistas and solidarity activists are taking 'non-sweat' apparel to a new level.

Masala and the Rainforest

Kim Petersen looks at the prospects for survival of the the Spirit bear, which has particular significance for west-coast First Nations

Future of Kermode bear and rainforest "uncertain"

McOrganic?

Hillary Lindsay investigates the new corporate organic landscape and its impact on Canadian farmers.

Is corporate organic changing the organic landscape in Canada?

Reconstructing Disaster

Rob Maguire looks at who is benefitting from federal reconstruction contracts in New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

Profiteers and Pink Slips Ravage the Gulf Coast

The Project of a New Canadian University Begins...

Wilma van der Veen attends a founding meeting for a new university in Canada.

What would a university based on principles of ecology and social justice look like?

Card Carriers

Max Liboiron looks at the issues raised by creative currency of Artist's Trading Cards.

Artist's Trading Cards (ATCs) are art for everyone

Beautiful -- Privatized -- British Columbia?

Why does BC's Liberal government keep picking major fights with trade unions? Dru Oja Jay asks around.

Health care workers, teachers, fight government over policy

What makes a scandal scandalous?

Dru Oja Jay asks why the Canadian media, despite pestering the Pierre Pettigrew about questionable trips, have yet to ask about Haiti

The media and Pierre Pettigrew's apartment on rue Aristide Bruant

Protest Burn Out

Nourrir la fleur ou couper la tige ?

Le système d'inscription sur les listes électorales en Haïti n'est vraiment pas destiné à plaire aux défenseurs des libertés publiques. Par Justin Podur

La démocratie en Haïti promue par le Canada

C'est à cela que ressemble la « responsabilité de protéger » ?

Justin Podur se rend à l'ambassade du Canada, un immeuble neuf et brillant avec un terrain de tennis et une piscine, construit par SNC-Lavalin.

Statut, élections et le Canada en Haïti

War Makes Terrorists

Carey Jernigan marches for peace in Washington

Hundreds of thousands march for peace in D.C.

Settler Acculturation

Wilma van der Veen attends a workshop confronting myths and misconceptions of Indigenous culture and history.

Confronting myths and misconceptions about Indigenous culture, spirituality, and worldview