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Big Brother in Mexico: Iris Scanning Contemplated for an Entire City
Here’s an article in this month’s Fast Company that gives me the willies. I can’t believe it’s true. It details a Mexican city’s plan to install iris scanning devices throughout the city for security reasons. The city of... [Read more]
Stranger Danger
Margaret Blackwood remembers when kids were free to roam their neighbourhoods without fear of abduction by strangers. She also remembers her first encounter with a potentially dangerous stranger. [Read more]
Taking a Commission on Compassion
That Kind of Girl takes a look at how compassion has become an industry in which some non-profits compete for a smaller piece of the pie in a dog-eat-dog capitalist approach to pulling in charity dollars. [Read more]
Welcome to Kabul, Home of the Taliban Swimming Pool: Part Two
In the streets of wartime, Kabul, the chaos is remarkably organized despite all appearances. The effect is surreal as Allan Cram discovers while driving through Kabul's streets amidst reports to beware of a suicide bomber in a yellow Toyota. [Read more]
Who Stole The Night And With It, The Stars?
Ever since I was a young boy, I have loved the night sky. A favorite thing was to lie on my back, look up at all the stars and wonder if anyone else was up there, looking back at me. In my mind, I would trace out my own asterisms and give them goofy names. I... [Read more]
Hippie Lessons #2: To Live in Peace One Must be Peaceful
As the child of hippies living on a boat in Vancouver in the heart of the 60s, Christopher Holt learned a lot of his lessons and values from the hippie culture. As he explores in Hippie Lessons, most of those lessons and values are still valid — and more needed than ever. [Read more]
Welcome to Kabul, Home of the Taliban Swimming Pool
A Canadian civilian helicopter pilot experiences what it's like to navigate the streets of wartime Kabul where chaos reigns. How hard can it be to find a swimming pool in a city under threat by the Taliban? [Read more]
Victims and Bullies:The Destructive Cycle of People and Politics
Mary Rose says we have become "masters at controlling others but is it now time to master control of self." The survival of our species and our planet depends upon it. [Read more]
Banning Reiki: The Catholic Church Takes One More Step into Oblivion
The Catholic Church has now banned the healing practice of Reiki in what Nathan Thompson calls "a witch hunt" to undermine its members ability to make health decisions in their own best interests...and to disempower the nuns who have been providing Reiki in a Christian atmosphere. [Read more]
Oil Spillage Equals Opportunity
Just who is reaping economic opportunities from the BP Deepwater Horizon Spill in the Gulf? Phyllis Wilson explores the fact that in every crisis there is opportunity, like it or not. [Read more]
