The Pressure’s on: Will Vancouver Be Greenest City by 2020? You can almost hear Mayor Robertson’s pressured gulp echoing against the city’s North-facing mountains. A Toronto-based media and research company for clean capitalism just ranked Vancouver 4th, cushioned behind Ottawa at 2nd and just ahead of Toronto at 5th in [...]
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Eggonomics: How Hopping the Border to Buy U.S. Eggs Impacts the B.C. Economy
Living along the border edge like the majority of Canadians do, we become accustomed to taking opportunity to skip...
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Cultural Criminology: The Yomango Movement to Consolidate Against Consumerism
CBS News photo The recent tragic collapse of a Bangladesh factory making cheap garments for Western wearers has re-invigorated...
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A Difference in Pipeline Perception: Canada vs. Belize
The world collectively held its breath when a couple of tourists illegally climbed the Pyramids in Egypt earlier this...
Whatchu Know ‘Bout GMO? Apparently, Not Much.
CBC News reported that affairs and currents of the expanding genetically-modified food system are “too far removed” from concerns of the average Canadian consumer. Despite the amount Monsanto is emblazoned across news pages and amidst frequent farmer and food group protests happening the entire world over, the average Canadian consumer [...]
Read more ›Dyeing to Feed Kids in North America
Two moms and food bloggers recently called on Kraft to remove Yellow Dye 5 and Yellow Dye 6 from its infamous line of cheese dinner products made for North American markets. According to various reports, ingesting synthetic (petroleum-based) dyes has been linked with health and behavioural problems including allergic reaction, [...]
Read more ›#WaterWeek in Canada
March 18-24 is Canada Water Week. Not only is this precious commodity essential for life and the make-up of at least 60% of the human body, but it is embedded in the core of almost every item of food, clothing and product that we consume and use on a daily [...]
Read more ›Hip-Hopolitical: Video Compares Food Industry to Drug Dealers
Making the web rounds is this video “What Up, Steve?” by Halifax rapper Kyle McKenna, blasting Prime Minister Stephen Harper for a number of shoddy political moves against Canadians. Another recent politically-themed hip-hop video from below the border making waves is “Food Fight: Saving Kids From Processed Junk” produced by [...]
Read more ›Blockadia Rising: Voices of the Tar Sands Blockade
The video opens to the sound of men howling like wolves, a growing sequence of hoots and cheers, bellows reminiscent of ancient war cries. Then a shot of land, as yet unscathed by man. Winnsboro, Texas: 326 miles east of Dallas and the site of what has been called the [...]
Read more ›Canadian government backs shale gas drilling in New Brunswick
The federal Environment Minister, Peter Kent, is reportedly vocalizing his support for shale-gas exploration in New Brunswick, Canada for its significant economic benefits. That said, Kent also admits that having a “drill rig in one’s backyard is not the most pleasant of visions.” The Globe and Mail writes: New Brunswick is [...]
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