VANCOUVER, B.C. – Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation saw a national outpouring of grief and anger over indigenous residential schools, and the genocide of Canada’s aboriginal peoples. Now that the day’s drums are stilled, the joined voices of lament
Philip Seymour Hoffman reportedly was found dead in his New York apartment this morning, age 46. The American actor won an Oscar for his role in Capote: Reading: New York Times news reportPhilip Seymour Hoffman’s page on Wikipedia Philip Seymour Hoffman’s page
As the contest to win development, market and resource rights in Africa heats up, China just upped the ante by hiring one of the world’s most famous mercenaries to protect its interests on the continent. An excerpt of international affairs columnist Jonathan
American icon Pete Seeger died Monday, January 27, 2014. Author and filmmaker Silver Donald Cameron wrote this newspaper column about Pete Seeger in the dark days of 2001, and F&O re-publishes it here, free of charge, with Silver Donald’s kind permission. An
A new science piece in Expert Witness looks at handedness and brain asymmetry, once regarded as unique to humans — but widespread among animals, and a factor in language and tool use. An excerpt: Although it may be the absence of asymmetry
“It’s a popular refrain that the facts have a left-wing bias,” writes Natural Security columnist Chris Wood. “But that doesn’t make the progressive left immune from the same sort of selective consciousness its members so quickly denounce on the right. Empiricism is
Government and politics are in such turmoil in Thailand that some citizens are even re-thinking its one-person-one vote democratic structure. International affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe looks at the history and recent reasons for clashes between the protesting “elites” and the rural voters who
The word “corporation” has lately been vilified in polarized political discourse — but not so long ago, it was the political “left” that championed corporations, writes Thoughtlines columnist Jim McNiven. “Democratizing prosperity would have been virtually impossible without ‘freeing’ the corporation, he
On the 41st anniversary of the United States’ Roe v. Wade court case, legal battles over abortion in the country still rage. ProPublica compiled some of the more interesting takes on the topic and the broader issue of women’s rights. Go
The Law of Conservation in physics says energy can be neither created nor destroyed, only transformed. But lawless politics have no such constraints — and here the role of energy has ceaselessly expanded, and come to dominate economics and polarize politics. F&O
By Greg Locke Only three years after becoming Premier and two years since a decisive election victory, Kathy Dunderdale is stepping down as premier of Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada’s most eastern province. First elected to the province’s legislature in 2003, Dunderdale came
