“The failure of electoral politics to address what’s really at stake means an increasing number of…issues are destined to be resolved through various forms of protest and civil disobedience”
Before photographer and essayist Christopher Grabowski moved to Canada in 1992 he was part of “a social movement that started as a protest and that successfully transformed the society by non-electoral and mainly non-violent means—the Solidarity movement in Poland.” Grabowski writes in The Tyee that “Although I’m not exactly experiencing déjà vu, much of what I am seeing and reading now is beginning to look familiar. And that makes me hopeful.” (more…)
Mad Pride Toronto holds “a Celebration of Madness” from July 8th to July 14th,2013
Every year on 10th of October, The World Health Organization joins in celebrating the 
Performance poet, community builder, change agent. Those are the words Victoria poet Jeremy Loveday uses to describe himself on Twitter and Facebook. And recently, with one YouTube video, Loveday has drawn on all three of those callings.
In a visit that was probably destined to create controversy, Miles Groth, an educator and activist in the men’s rights movement, came to the University of Toronto on September 27, 2013 to speak on the topic of “why we need men’s centres in a time of crisis.” The fact is, fewer and fewer men are attending university. The controversy comes with the discussion of why that is happening. 
The tragic case of a young Aboriginal girl who suffered horrific abuse and neglect for 18 months at the hands of unfit care givers points to significant improvements that are required to British Columbia’s child protection system as well as to the protocol that guides the interprovincial transfer of such vulnerable children across Canada. 