A world without grandmothers
Grandmothers, according to anthropologist Kristen Hawkes, are what make us human. This 2012 article in The Atlantic outlines her hypothesis: “Grandmothers came about in order to…
Grandmothers, according to anthropologist Kristen Hawkes, are what make us human. This 2012 article in The Atlantic outlines her hypothesis: “Grandmothers came about in order to…
Sometimes words burn into my mind and I can’t stop hearing them. Imam Hassan Guillet spoke powerful words at the funeral of three of the men…
When I picked up Active Hope from the new arrivals shelf at Terrace library a few days before the unthinkable happened and a racist, misogynist demagogue…
Like millions of others, I’m stunned this morning. My heart aches for my American friends who worked so hard to keep today’s reality from happening. I…
Our neighbours mentioned Miss Representation, so we watched it the other night. Jennifer Siebel Newsom’s 2011 documentary thoroughly depressed me. It wasn’t just the sinking, sick…
I’ve heard a lot of bullshit in my life, but nothing quite tops the statement by the late Pierre Bourgault that the Montreal Massacre was…
Paula Simons wrote so eloquently in the Edmonton Journal on Tuesday about the intimate magic of radio: “We turn on the radio in our kitchen, in our bedroom,…
The Liberal Party of Canada is circulating a petition: Stand with Justin: Call for an inquiry into missing and murdered Indigenous women and girls. I haven’t signed…
Smithers poet Sheila Peters posted Jan Zwicky’s poem “Near” on her Say the Names blog this week. It resonates so strongly with what I was talking about…
Every day nonstop for over 30 years, Louie Schwartzberg has photographed time’s miraculous interplay with nature. A pioneer of high-end time-lapse cinematography—and the son of Holocaust survivors—Schwartzberg “bends the boundaries of…