2009 Issue 01 - The New West

Five years ago Friday, Jean-Bertrand Aristide, a democratically-elected Haitian president was forcibly taken from his home — with the help of the Canadian government — in what the deposed leader calls a kidnapping.

Kevin Pina, a documentary filmmaker, first went to Haiti to cover Aristide

Death knell of political alternative

Last week, the deputy leader of the Alberta Green Party , Edwin Erickson, tore up his membership in a huff, and began the process of creating a new party, the Alberta Progress Party. He seems to believe that the Alberta Greens are about to cease to exist in an implosion of financial irregularities a

Humour

Royal Flush

Boys -- you've just gotten yourself comfy in your favourite Barca lounger, the game is on, your beer is cracked and your wife is gone for the afternoon. Does it get any better than this? Well, if

Science & Tech

NASA launches Search for Earth-like Planets

Tomorrow night, NASA will launch the Kepler spacecraft into an orbit trailing the Earth around the sun.

The goal of Kepler is to find Earth-like planets orbiting distant stars by observing slight blips...
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The Arts

I (now) love the ballet

I love the ballet.

I’ve been to a ballet or two in the past, but really wasn’t interested. Maybe it was the pretentious season ticket holders. Maybe it was the dark and the music that made