In a recent blog post at Northern Public Affairs, Stephanie Irlbacher-Fox looks at the issue of ‘who gets what?’ when a mine is developed in the Northwest Territories (NWT). Here is an excerpt from the post: – The resource extractor: they pay royalties (the NWT has the lowest royalties in the world), and costs of [...]

The following is another excerpt from Dr. Ryan Meili’s new book, A Healthy Society: How a Focus on Health Can Revive Canadian Democracy, which fellow blogger Greg Fingas has been discussing. The road to Tevele is red sand and sloppy in the rainy season. The pick- up truck bounces in and out of ruts as [...]

My mind is abuzz after Travel Bloggers Unite in Italy. From our side of the weekend’s events, we can state that it was a rousing success. Spending the Saturday leading and attending sessions for Industry professionals was one of the highlights of the event. Now, two days later we are more motivated than ever and have come away with the feeling that the future looks bright for Travel Blogging in Europe.

World War something-or-other is about to begin … but even the weather reports are confusing. Contributor: “YYC”See Update at BottomRain or Snow?It’s Sunday, so let’s talk about God and his favourite entertainment – death, destruction and fierce weath…

Here’s an idea for truly provocative art. No more male artists, black or white, speaking for African women. No more ever-more-graphic ever-more-voyeuristic art on the suffering of African women. Stop using the female African body as raw material to be worked – unless you happen to live in one. Then, notice that African women are [...]

‘They’re standing on the corner and they can’t speak English. I can’t even talk the way these people talk:  Why you ain’t, Where you is, What he drive, Where he stay, Where he work, Who you be… And I blamed the kid until I heard the mother talk. And then I heard the father talk. [...]

Sudan is known for it’s barren landscapes and people succumb to it everyday. But they are not the only victims. Camels litter the highway in what is dubbed the “Camel Highway” in Central Sudan.

Most Canadians now know the answer to the question general Romeo Dallaire once asked thanks, unhappily, to one of history’s great man-made tragedies. Yet for half a century before the 1994 genocide, some Canadians, especially Quebec Catholic missionari…

The new, interim president of Mali is holding out the possibility of “all out war” against the rebellion of the oppressed, Touareg nationality that has swept the north of the western African country.
Dioncounda Traore took over the presidency on April …

Like all decisions of great consequence my plan to cycle around the world was made in a pub, beer in one hand, mini-atlas in the other. I was working as an emergency doctor in central London and struggled with the question of whether it was brave or stupid and ungrateful to say goodbye to it all, to my friends, to my family, to my country and to the job that I loved.

Apres dinner recaps in our open air dining on the Mara, KenyaIt’s been more than a year and a half since Kidlet and I took our trip to Kenya. But I knew then that the life-altering experience was one that would keep on giving – and it has – in so many …

Army takeover follows big increases in aid and military equipment from U.S., Canada and Europe
The African country of Mali has suffered a coup d’etat against its elected government. It was carried out by the country’s armed forces on March 21. The coun…

Contributor: “YYC”Budget CutsI generally stay away from journalistic predictions, but this is just too cute to bypass (emphasis mine).8 things to watch for in today’s federal budgetConservative government takes aim at spendingThe government has increas…

World MasterCard Fashion Week closed with Dare to Wear Love, a gala fundraiser showcasing Canadian designers with celebrity models.  Given just a few yards of African fabric,some of the designers really pushed the limits.  The standout for me was Cityline’s…

A Zimbabwean senator has recommended cutting back on prisoners’ food budget and providing “sex gadgets” instead as a strategy to reduce homosexuality from spreading throughout the country. Speaking  before a parliamentary committee this month, Ms. Sithembile Mlotshwa explained her, uh, logic: “Considering that some of the same-sex orientation—homosexuality—come from prisons and when those people are [...]

The blonde-haired, blue-eyed, Christian filmmaker behind the Internet’s most recent famous activism campaign, “Kony 2012,” has been arrested. For masturbating. And being drunk. And vandalizing cars. In public. In the morning.UPDATE: Mach 18: From…

… and the theatrical Kony 2012 campaignContributor: “Lucilla”America hunts for KonySo there is a viral video out there to get everyone excited about hunting down Joseph Kony and bringing him to justice in the ICC, and today the ICC has finally convic…

Video still from Kony 2012. I was swamped at work last week, when I took a little Twitter break to see what was going on in the world. My feed was bombarded with what appeared to be a video gone viral, called Kony 2012. Even celebrities like Rihanna,…

And they say there is no “Greater Israel Project”! Contributor: “Lucilla”Guess what likely one of the main reasons for trashing Libya really was? Remember the controversial “Greater Israel Project”?  “From the Nile to the Euphrates!”Looks like the…

Photograph by Glenna Gordon (detail). By now you’ve heard of the Kony 2012 campaign, and I’ve already expended enough energy discussing it on Facebook to bring anything new and arts-related to the table. However, the Washington Post has p…