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Sep 8, 2016  'Forbidden Fruit' chronicles memories of a traumatic 1980s BeijingEllen Tolmie 'Forbidden Fruit' is Gail Pellett's raw and highly personal memoir of the year, mid-1980 to mid-1981, when she lived in Beijing as China was just emerging from its decade-long Cultural Revolution. |
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Sep 8, 2016  Rick Wolfe on kitchen table culture, aspiring leaders and three-part epiphaniesface2face Rick and I talk about kitchen table culture, aspiring leaders, three-part epiphanies, and why conversation is a deeply creative process. |
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Sep 7, 2016  Steampunk celebrates the beauty and promise of early technologyThe alternative world of steampunk is a world frozen in a parallel Victorian era of remarkable, imagined technology. The steampunk attitude towards its technology sheds light on present-day thinking. |
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Sep 6, 2016  Interview: David Melia on entrepreneurship, education and passionate engagementface2face David and I talk entrepreneurship, what's wrong with our educational system, how passion plays such an important role in pretty much everything and about his exciting initiative called Kaajenga.
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Sep 5, 2016  Interview: John Aitchison on photography, poetry, beauty and the natural worldface2face John and I talk about his new book The Shark and The Albatross, the natural world, poetry, beauty, patience and emotion and how we can look for "subtle signs" in our environment. |
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Sep 5, 2016  Episode Three: The Strange Wax Cylinders of Thaddeus BarnesThe Strange Copper Cylinders of Thaddeus Barnes A rollicking Canadian steampunk adventure and a companion to the Harrowsmith Now treasure hunt, The Strange Copper Cylinders of Thaddeus Barnes. |
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Sep 2, 2016  rabble.ca's Vancouver office seeks part-time outreach event volunteersrabble staff Read on for more information about rabble.ca volunteer opportunities in Vancouver. |
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Sep 1, 2016  The Crystal Serenity: A Titanic for the modern ageScott Vrooman If the Titanic was a metaphor for humanity's arrogance toward nature, the Crystal Serenity is a metaphor for not learning anything from the Titanic. |
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Aug 31, 2016  Gawker and Craigslist: A tale of two sitesIt's hard to imagine two sites more different than Gawker and Craigslist, or two people more diametrically opposed than their founders. But each, in their own way, have shaped the journalism of today. |
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Aug 29, 2016  Episode Two: The Strange Wax Cylinders of Thaddeus BarnesThe Strange Copper Cylinders of Thaddeus Barnes In this week's exciting episode the Serbian genius Nikola Tesla relates a narrow escape from an enemy, but his troubles, and those of Thaddeus Barnes, may not be over. |
 How should Canada support Canadian content?3 Minute Action We can do more than export of cute cat pictures. |
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Aug 27, 2016  Joan Haggerty's new novel is a West Coast family sagaRedeye A new novel by novelist and Bowen Island resident Joan Haggerty follows four families, including one Japanese family, through the tumultuous years of the Second World War and beyond. |
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Aug 26, 2016  Giants of Africa basketball documentary flows with feeling and fast playGiants of Africa is a sports documentary all right, but it's a very human one that you won't forget. Why? The heartbreaking faces of its basketball players will be seared into your memory. |
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Aug 26, 2016  Ontario Hydro, negative politicking, the burkini, Salvador, Nestle and urban farming: What's new in the newsEmily Blake rabble bloggers continue to bring informed takes on Canada's tops news stories! Here are some of the best blog posts of the week. |
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Aug 25, 2016  Canada helps tighten the tripwires on NATO's doomsday machineScott Vrooman In which Scott Vrooman finally outs himself as a Kremlin agent. |
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Aug 25, 2016  From Rio to Tokyo, gender discrimination in sport continuesThe treatment of athletes like Caster Semenya at the Rio Olympics shows that the rights of women who do not conform to binary understandings of sex are deemed less worthy of protection than others. |
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Aug 25, 2016  From slave markets to supermarkets: Brazil's complex past and present aren't simply black and whiteRobin Browne Brazil's former colonial capital Salvador reflects the nation's complex past -- and present. |
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Aug 24, 2016  Our media's sad, unsavoury relationship with 'native' ad contentMainstream media can't have it both ways. It can't pretend that increasingly depending on sponsored native content to boost its bottom line will have no impact on how it produces news. |
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Aug 23, 2016  Kim Kardashian is not a feminist -- get over itMeghan Murphy The reason Kim Kardashian says she isn't a feminist is because she's not -- liberals should think about why that is. |
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Aug 22, 2016  The politically hip Gord DownieWater protection, health care, pipeline opposition, Indigenous solidarity, prisoner rights, and more. Gord Downie is far more than a musician. |
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Aug 21, 2016  Episode One: The Strange Wax Cylinders of Thaddeus BarnesThe Strange Copper Cylinders of Thaddeus Barnes A rollicking Canadian steampunk adventure and a companion to the Harrowsmith Now treasure hunt, The Strange Copper Cylinders of Thaddeus Barnes. |
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Aug 18, 2016  Lauralyn Chow reflects on memory, family and identity in 'Paper Teeth'Allan Cho Lauralyn Chow's new short story collection 'Paper Teeth' follows the lives of the Lees, a Canadian-Chinese family and their friends in Edmonton. Read this author Q&A now! |
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Aug 17, 2016  Meet the hosts of The Hum PodcastThe Hum Podcast Amar and Gilad bare their souls... to each other. Listen in as they chat about life as immigrants, eating disorders, stigma and much more.
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Aug 17, 2016  The coming demise of Star TouchWhat can we learn from the sad fate of the Toronto Star's Star Touch tablet fiasco and its imminent demise? |
