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You and your fucking coffee | onlinediscountanvils said... I feel like my coffee abstinence has been validated. in

Information, Please! | Unionist said... Wow. Just wow. There goes my life. Thanks a lot, CF. in

I want to teach you how to dance | 6079_Smith_W said... Hey, I heard that on the radio for the first time yesterday. Great tune! Here's Cab Calloway and...

Babble Book Club: 'Godless but Loyal to Heaven' by Richard Van Camp | Kaitlin McNabb said... Here's a nice, funny and interesting interview with Richard Van Camp from Nineteen Questions. Some...

Book recommendations? | Kaitlin McNabb said... Also, I thought we could parlay this thread in to just general recommendations. We have the 'what...

Happy Pi Day! | Michelle said... We had a fun Pi Day feast tonight with Maysie and her partner. :) Leftovers galore, of course...

How the Left has won | KenS said... huh, sleep walking to the workers paradise. does the New Jerusalem have therapists for...

Freedom Press, London's anarchist bookstore and publishing house (circa. 1886), firebombed | epaulo13 said... drifting away... catchfire ..your post brought a memory ..in 2008 in the south of france i met a...

History is a Weapon | Caissa said... Almost any hisorian would agree with what is written above. in

The Beginner's guide to cooking Korean Food | Boom Boom said... Is there also a Beginners Guide to cooking Canadian Food? in

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Film review: Tenchi: the Samurai Astronomer | Jun 19 2013 | Lindsay Presswell | "Tenchi: The Samurai Astronomer" is a film by the Japanese Academy Award winning director Yojiro Takita, and was the selection for the opening of the Toronto Japanese Film Festival.

Yellowknife's Wildcat Cafe reopens after two-year hiatus | Jun 17 2013 | George Lessard | After a two-year-long renovation Yellowknife's oldest restaurant and historic icon, the "Wildcat Café" has finally opened for its 2013 summer season.

This Week on Media Mornings: Michael Parenti, surveillance leaks, prostitution law challenge | Jun 17 2013 | This Week on Media Mornings | This Week on Media Mornings has interviews featuring Michael Parenti, ACLU and BCCLA on surveillance leaks and the prostitution law challenge.

Migrant Dreams documentary delves into temporary foreign worker issue | Jun 17 2013 | June Chua | Award-winning filmmaker Min Sook Lee's Migrant Dreams documentary project has a deep connection to her past -- her Korean parents emigrated to Canada in the early 1970s.

Artist Diane Boudreau's 'Species at risk' in the Northwest Territories | Jun 16 2013 | George Lessard | Local artist-biologist Diane Boudreau has been working in English and French with youth and street people in the NWT for several years connecting art and the environment.

Activist Communique: Day of Delight Festival | Jun 14 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | Clay & Paper Theatre invites you to the 11th annual Day of Delight: A Toronto celebration of Love, Courtship and Desire outdoors in lush and beautiful Dufferin Grove Park.

Interview: Literary leftist thriller: Pulp fiction with a twist of solidarity and social justice | Jun 13 2013 | Yutaka Dirks | Yutaka Dirks interviews author Stephen Law about his debut novel 'Tailings of Warren Peace' and how he balanced social justice with magical realism.

In the Name Of delivers depressing but realistic portrait of Polish sexual politics | Jun 12 2013 | Jamie Paris | Polish director Malgorzata Szumowska's award-winning film deftly navigates the discomfiting tension between pedophilia, the Catholic Church and same-sex desire while refusing to present an easy answer

Toronto Japanese Film Festival invites Toronto to experience Japanese culture | Jun 11 2013 | Lindsay Presswell | The Toronto Japanese Film Festival (TorontoJFF) runs from June 13 to June 28 at the Japanese Canadian Culture Centre, with a mission to promote "friendship through culture."

Mask-making: Papier-mache (paper mache) | Jun 10 2013 | Holly Adams | Tips and step-by-step 'how to' for making masks with paper mache (papier mache)!

This Week on Media Mornings: June 8—Kinnie Starr, Tiananmen Anniversary, CUPE’s Paul Moist on FCM, Canada-EU trade | Jun 10 2013 | This Week on Media Mornings | This week's top interviews: Kinnie Starr, Tienanmen anniversary, CUPE's Paul Moist on FCM, and the Canada-EU trade deal.

Excerpt: Make it bacon? Controlling excessive meat consumption and finding progressive solutions | Jun 6 2013 | Eleanor Boyle | Author Eleanor Boyle exposes the consequences of large-scale meat production and excessive consumption and searches for progressive sustainable solutions to eating meat.

A Paradigm of Practice | Jun 2 2013 | Holly Adams | So much of why I do what I do, my context of growing my work as artist and educator, stems from notions planted by my awesome mother.

Adventures From the eBook Frontier – Dispatch Number Thirty | Jun 2 2013 | Cathi Bond | The party's over and now the back-breaking work begins.

Documenting the ghosts in our industrial food machine | May 31 2013 | Cathryn Atkinson | The Ghosts in Our Machine was shot from the summer of 2011 to the fall of 2012 as McArthur snapped photos of animals in factory farms and abattoirs.