Tories kill arts grants for foreign travel

I just heard about this from MIchael Alstad, and am so outraged. There are really only two travel funds for artists in Canada, and this is one of them, and it has just been pulled by the Tory government for...

Vivoleum: a new power source made from dead people?

"By the time candles supposedly made from remains of a deceased ExxonMobil janitor named Reggie Watts were handed out, an audience of oil and gas professionals attending a keynote luncheon at Calgary's Gas and Oil...

World Social Forum Looks for a Business Plan

"When Addarii discusses the might of civil society -- and what is referred to in England as the third sector, the non-governmental and non-commercial sector -- he sounds almost like a business consultant. His...

Globalization Sucks

"The Americans and French have more in common than they think. Job worries damp public support for globalisation Public support for economic globalisation is rising on both sides of the Atlantic but US and French voters are worried that freer trade costs jobs, according to...

Protesters swipe Olympic torch in Italy

ROME - Some protesters briefly grabbed the Olympic torch from Italian track star Eleanora Berlanda as the relay passed through the Italian town of Trento on Monday.

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