Angela Hennessy

  • Is Facebook Censoring the Syrian Opposition?

    Facebook has become responsible for policing its users, which is a problem—some of them rely on the social media platform to share information about revolutions, but they break the terms of service in the process.

  • We Tracked Down Zanta

    Zanta is a Toronto cultural legend, known for shirtless, furious knuckle-pushups that he once performed all over the city—while wearing a Santa hat, and smoking. Until he was banned from the downtown core . We caught up wtih him to discuss the legend...

  • Valerie Scott Says Your Great Aunt Was Probably a Sex Worker

    Fresh off the recent Supreme Court sex law success, a new structure called the "Nordic model" may be introduced which would criminalize pimps and johns instead of the sex workers, and would erase a lot of the progress made on behalf of advocates for...

  • Canadian Medical Schools Love Pharmaceutical Companies

    Over the past decade, prescription pills have become the latest drug-epidemic bogeyman. A study published earlier this year claimed that one in four American teenagers have misused medications at least once—a 33 percent increase from 2008—and OxyContin...

  • Enduring the Aftershock of OxyContin in Canada

    Purdue Pharma had successfully engineered a slanted, disingenuous marketing campaign clearly designed to sell more OxyContin, and passed it off as a mandatory educational lecture at a major university. Nearly seven thousand students received this...

  • Room Service Guys See Some Crazy Shit

    There's something about the transient nature of hotel rooms that allow people to act differently. It’s the feeling that you can make a mess and someone will always clean it up and that you’ll probably never even see that room again. So even though...

  • Taxi Drivers See Some Crazy Shit

    No matter how thick your skin is, you can only assume that driving a cab in any city is tough. We decided to meet with cab drivers to try and get their side of things and find out some of the crazy shit they've had to put up with over the years.

  • Canadian Cops Ambushed a First Nations Anti-Fracking Protest

    Protesters say that the cops used rubber bullets and mace when they didn't need to while breaking up a demonstration blocking access to a natural gas company's facilities.

  • Why Are Canadian Prisoners on Strike?

    There is a palpable amount of unrest inside Canada’s prison system right now, and it’s happening on all levels. Inmates are on strike, Kingston Penitentiary is closed, and Don Jail is soon to follow.

  • 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...

  • 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.

  • A Recap of Yesterday's Sammy Yatim Protest

    Nearly a thousand people showed up again to rally in response to the shooting death of Sammy Yatim, the 18-year-old who was shot nine times by Toronto Police officer, James Forcillo, then tazed by an unknown sargeant.