Death in the Family
When the wheels of justice grind slowly, the process can seem interminable and destructive. This is especially true in cases… Read More »
View ArticleRoad Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the Move
Montreal-based author Mary Soderstrom has set herself a giant task in Road Through Time: The Story of Humanity on the… Read More »
View ArticleBoiling Point: Government Neglect, Corporate Abuse, and Canada’s Water Crisis
With 2016 on track to shatter heat and drought records, the crises of climate change and declining freshwater supplies that… Read More »
View ArticleBit Rot: stories + essays
It seems quaint that Douglas Coupland’s latest work should arrive in so prosaic a form as thinly sliced trees bound… Read More »
View ArticleThe Future and Why We Should Avoid It: Killer Robots, the Apocalypse and...
Scott Feschuk is an extremely funny guy, which is a good thing given his abundant presence on Canadian newsstands. Both… Read More »
View ArticleInformation Doesn’t Want to Be Free: Laws for the Internet Age
Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free is a book that’s very clear about what it is and what it isn’t.… Read More »
View ArticleKitten Clone: Inside Alcatel-Lucent
Douglas Coupland is a clever and resourceful writer. He has to be in Kitten Clone, because the topic of global… Read More »
View ArticleTell Everyone: Why We Share and Why It Matters
When an unarmed black teen by the name of Michael Brown was gunned down by police in the Missouri suburb… Read More »
View ArticleTechnocreep: The Surrender of Privacy and the Capitalization of Intimacy
We live in an age where the spread of information technology has far outstripped our understanding or control over it.… Read More »
View ArticleThis Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. the Climate
Naomi Klein is angry. The author of No Logo and The Shock Doctrine, and a self-confessed former climate change skeptic,… Read More »
View ArticleThe Organized Mind: Thinking Straight in the Age of Information Overload
Daniel J. Levitin, professor of psychology and behavioural neuroscience at McGill University and author of the bestsellers This Is Your… Read More »
View ArticleA Profession of Hope: Farming on the Edge of the Grizzly Trail
Research is paramount to the development and operation of an off-grid, organic small farm. So says Jenna Butler who, along with her partner, Thomas, in 2006 established Larch Grove Farm near Barrhead...
View ArticleTrees on Mars: Our Obsession with the Future
Given the recent news there may be water on Mars, combined with Ridley Scott’s adaptation of Andrew Weir’s novel The Martian, about an astronaut stranded on the red planet, the title of Hal...
View ArticleAfter the Sands: Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians
Perhaps able to foresee that even the longest federal election campaign in Canadian history would fail to prioritize the serious consequences of climate change, University of Alberta professor emeritus...
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