Author bio:
Kevin Annett is a community minister in Vancouver who lives and works with Native and low-income people. An award-winning filmmaker and author, Kevin helped establish the International Human Rights Tribunal into Genocide in Canada, and is an advisor to numerous indigenous groups.

The campaign to expose the hidden history of genocide in Canada opened a new front recently, when hereditary Squamish Chief Kiapilano ordered the churche...

French Polynesia is one of the few remaining territories to depend on the French. This dependency benefits from a unique status, with many long-standing militant Independentists among its current leaders, yet the project for the creation of an independent country, Tahiti Nui (1), has met with mitigated success. One of the principal justifications of continued dependency is the financial support that France guarantees its “overseas countries.” The sums granted to ...

Bio: Erin is a doctoral student in communication studies.

Stories have a role to play in environmental debates and problem-solving because they help to engage a wide range of voices and perspectives. Literary writing in particular provides a means of exploring the nuances and complexities of environmental issues. In this context, how might stories enable us to re-imagine our ways of living in response to large-scale environmental imperatives such as climate ...

How many planets are there in our solar system? This would be a relatively easy question, were we to forget the demotion of Pluto to minor planet status in 2006. What about the planets outside of our solar system? Could any of those planets support life as we know it here on earth?

Terrorism has ruined the fiction market, according to publishers. The book-buying public descends on titles like The Post-American World and Collapse: How Societies Choose to Fail or Succeed, and fiction is cast once again as something pleasant and childish to be put aside when things get serious. Author and sculptor D. L. Alvarez, writing from the margins of literature, puts the lie to our generic bias.