Canada
How Do We Solve North America’s Heroin Epidemic?
Groundbreaking rehab specialist Dr. Gabor Maté believes current recovery methods are failing our youth. I couldn't care less about eating with Kim and Kanye, but I was dying to speak to Dr. Maté about how to solve our heroin problem.
Have the Skouries Protesters Really Defeated the EU, Goldminers, and Terror Police in Greece?
El Dorado, the Canadian company that owns controversial gold mines in Greece's Skouries forest, has announced that it will stop all works in the area until at least 2016. According to a company spokesperson, the reasoning behind this decision is that...
The Canadian Government Is Withholding Documents Concerning the Torture of Children
Despite numerous testimonies stating that children who attended St. Anne's residential "Indian" school were sexually abused and sat in an electric chair, the Canadian government refuses to release 7,000 pages of investigative documents that seemingly...
Dodge the NSA with This Fancy Encrypted Messaging Service
With all the talk pinging back and forth around the interwebs in the ongoing NSA clusterfuck, there's a real surge in the demand for encryption-based messaging services. Heml.is is one such service founded by Peter Sunde, one of the creators of the...
No One Knows Exactly Why the Canadian Military Is in Haiti
For a country that basically invented the concept of the peacekeeper, the current administration has overseen a nosedive to the point where the Canucks now rank 57 out of 114 troop-contributing nations worldwide. So the move to partake in a UN...
Why Did Toronto's Pride Parade Shut Out the Trans March?
This weekend, after years of fighting for the right to be seen and heard, thousands of people took to Yonge Street in the largest Trans March of all time. This wasn't the largest Trans March in Canada—this was the largest Trans March in the world. Ever.
Phony Abortion Clinics in Canada Are Scaring Women with Lies
"Pregnancy crisis centers" supposedly offer no-judgment counselling services for women who want to know what their options are. Most of the time, they won't tell you they're religious organizations hell-bent on persuading you out of getting an abortion.
Kickstarter Superheroes: the Less Important Portraits of Jeremy Bailey
Jeremy Bailey rewarded his top Kickstarter donors by making portraits of them using augmented reality technology that essentially turned them into digital Transformers and Mechwarriors.
Chatting with the Founder of the Polaris Prize
When the Polaris Prize began in 2006, its long list read like a who’s who of obscure new talent only familiar to the most obsessive of Canadian buzz band aficionados. But in the past few years, that trend of discovering young blood has gravitated...
Medical Weed Growers in Canada Are Ready for a Fight
Mik Mann is the articulate hippie and Frank Zappa lookalike we interviewed for our documentary BC Bud. He lives out in Port Alberni, a pretty remote town on Vancouver Island where...
Syrian Rebels Are Getting Serious Help from a House in Suburban Ontario
The Syrian Support Group is doing a tremendous amount of work to help organize the Free Syrian Army, mainly through Skype and Paypal. One of the group's founders, Louay Sakka, works out of his home in Oakville, Ontario, and we called him to learn what...