Canada
'Asphalt Watches' Is the Most Glorious Animated Film about Hitchhiking Ever Made
Toronto artists Seth Scriver and Shayne Ehman went on a hitchhiking trek 13 years ago from a 7-Eleven in Chilliwack, British Columbia, to downtown Toronto. The journey really impacted them, and now they've immortalized it by co-directing a feature...
Romanian Protesters Still Don't Want Gold Companies to Blow Up Their Mountains
Since the beginning of this month, tens of thousands of Romanians have been regularly protesting plans to destroy four of the country's mountains. The Transylvanian region of Roșia Montană, where the mountains are situated, is rich in gold and silver...
Canada Should Keep an Eye on the Fukushima Disaster
Just a friendly reminder that two-and-a-half years after an earthquake and tsunami caused a series of equipment failures and nuclear meltdowns in northeastern Japan, the threat of radiation poisoning in the Pacific Ocean will be around another 40 years...
The Canadian Prison System Is Keeping Prisoners Doped Up on Methadone
Orange Is the New Black is providing lazy Netflix watchers all over the place with an opportunity to escape into the lives of prisoners, but however fashionable prison entertainment may be, the truth is that Canada’s prison system, on all levels...
The Quebec Government's Plan to Ban Religious Symbols May Be a Stroke of Political Genius
Last week the Journal de Montreal dropped a bomb on Quebec’s extremely shaky sense of identity by publishing leaked details from the upcoming Charter of Quebec Values set to be released in the fall.
Native American Women Are Being Sold into the Sex Trade on Ships Along Lake Superior
Native women, children, and even babies are being trafficked in the sex trade on freighters crossing the Canada-US border on Lake Superior between Thunder Bay, Ontario, and Duluth, Minnesota.
Photographer Tony Fouhse Collaborated with a Heroin Addict
Tony Fouhse is a Canadian photographer who spent four years photographing addicts in downtown Ottawa. He met a woman named Stephanie, who was addicted to heroin, and in exchange for helping her get into rehab, she allowed him to photograph her. So we...
Prison Guards See Some Crazy Shit
A veteran Canadian corrections officer talks about strip searches, inmates puking up methadone, pencil stabbings, fight clubs, and, of course, drugs shoved up butts.
The Chemical Valley - Trailer
Forty percent of Canada's petrochemical industry is packed into a 15-square-mile area in Sarnia, Ontario, called the Chemical Valley. More than 60 chemical plants and oil refineries operate there 24/7. As a result of the Chemical Valley's emissions, in...
I Left My Lungs in Aamjiwnaang
The first thing you notice about Sarnia, Ontario, is the smell: a potent mix of gasoline, melting asphalt, and the occasional trace of rotten egg. Shortly after my arrival I already felt unpleasantly high and dizzy, like I wasn’t getting enough air...
Why Did the Toronto Police Kill Sammy Yatim?
The people of Toronto have a lot of questions for its police force after Sammy Yatim, an 18-year-old armed only with a knife, was shot nine times by a police officer in a busy part of the city. We spoke to an eye-witness, who shot one of two iPhone...