An interview with Dr. Thierry Vrain: A former genetic engineer speaks out about GMOs. On a warm, sunny day in May, underneath the shade of cherry blossoms, my partner Paul and I sat with Thierry Vrain, a former scientist who worked for Agriculture Canada for 35 years. Part of his job was to serve as the designated […]
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Stress! It’s All In Your Head…
It’s official. Stress (and the icky effects of it) is now a global health concern. The World Health Organization claims that stress is now considered the health epidemic of the 21st century. According to the Global Organization for Stress, 80% of workers report mid to high levels of stress on the job with half of […]
The Macho Paradox
Jackson Katz, on discussing his book, The Macho Paradox: Why Some Men Hurt Women and How All Men Can Help (excerpted from an interview by Kendra Olson Hodgson, Media Education Foundation). Fundamentally, the problems of sexual and domestic violence are problems of boys’ and men’s attitudes and behaviors, and (white) male-dominated power structures that produce, […]
Ending Violence: Creating Peace
For me, discussing ‘creating peace’ without naming ‘ending violence’ would be to jump to solution while neglecting to acknowledge there is a problem. It would at least be misleading, if not dishonest. I admit this at the risk of being judged—imagining my peers tsk-tsk’ing that I’m ‘focussing on the negative’ rather than ‘attracting that which […]
What is Truth?
What is truth? How do we know what is true? When one looks at the earlier evolution of this word in English and other European languages, one finds that it was created from something other than what we know as facts at this point in history. Do you know the ‘truth’. Are you sure? What […]