| Journalist Karla Garcia Ramirez fled Mexico after getting death threats after blowing the whistle on government corruption. Despite this, she was turned down for refugee status.

| Last December, Caracas hosted the inaugural meeting of CELAC, a new organization that includes 33 countries in the Americas but notably excludes Canada and the United States.

| Emily James spent a year filming Climate Camp and Plane Stupid, two direct-action groups in the U.K. Her film Just Do It is a window into the world of climate change activists.

| In 2011, Wikileaks released secret U.S. government cables to the independent newspaper Haiti Liberte. The cables reveal a long history of interference in the internal politics of Haiti.

| Nathan Cullen is MP for Skeena-Bulkley Valley. His constituency encompasses much of the proposed Enbridge pipeline route.

| Art Sterritt is executive director of Coastal First Nations, an alliance of eight First Nations with traditional territories extending from Rivers Inlet up to Prince Rupert and Haida Gwai.

| A longitudinal study by the Rodale Institute shows that organic farming can produce yields as high as conventional and in fact does better in some conditions.

| A musical adaptation of Dostoevsky's masterpiece The Idiot premiered at the PuSh Festival in Vancouver last week.

| A recent column by right-wing columnist Ezra Levant accused Calgary mayor Naheed Nenshi of being an anti-Christian bigot. David Climenhaga says this kind of journalism is typical of Sun Media Corp.