What’s the weather doing in your part of the world today? Rain, drought, cold, heat, winds? Unexpected sunshine? In the absence of weather, small talk would be severely compromised. “It’s another day, isn’t it?” the neighbor would say. “Yep, sure is a day,” we would reply. Farmers would have nothing to complain about except, of […]
DO Something: When Crowds Ignore Rape
Indifference? Pack Mentality? Stupidity? Fear? Margaret Blackwood asks how a recent gang-rape in BC could have been allowed to occur — and why no one intervened.
Putting an End to Enemy Making
Nathan Thompson weighs in on a nation consumed by questions of religious tolerance sparked by the proposed building of a mosque near Ground Zero and physicist Stephen Hawking’s claim that God played no role in the creation of the universe.
Reflections on Workers’ Rights for Labour Day
It is thanks to the Tolpuddle martyrs and their like that we have our rights as employees.
Notes from the Dirty Wall Project #1: Sleepless in Mumbai…
A year ago Kane Ryan decided to make the change from traveller and observer to someone with the ability to change, however small, the lives of the poor in India. That was the beginning of The Dirty Wall Project, a tiny charity with a very big vision. This is the first of Kane’s series of special posts for Life As A Human as he begins his journey back to the slums of India.
Grandmothers as Agents of Change
Victoria Grandmothers for Africa are dynamic activists, awesome fundraisers, and part of a national movement committed to supporting the African grandmothers who are raising their AIDS-orphaned grandchildren.
A Slightly Immodest Proposal
There is a plague of government workers upon the land and we may have to turn to the 18th century essayist Jonathan Swift and his Modest Proposal for a solution. With apologies to Mr. Swift.
How to Respond to the Building of Controversial New York Mosque
Nathan Thompson reflects on some of the vicious and destructive comments by people who are against the building of a Cordoba House mosque and Islamic cultural Center near Ground Zero in New York.
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.
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.
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