Canada’s immigration system attracts highly skilled workers to better compete in the global economy. Upon arrival in the country’s largest cities, however, immigrants find themselves ghettoized in highly racialized and gendered labour markets. A business-led campaign in Toronto to have … Lire / Read
Some Girls Refuse to Lose their Heads f(or) their Hands
Some Girls: Griffiths/Simms/Wagschal/Werner, curated by James D. Campbell, is billed as an exhibit which “contributes to a vital dialogue concerning the state of portraiture in contemporary art.1” The tradition of portrait painting has focused on head and … Lire / Read
The Implications of Freedom Suits to America
The United States detains thousands of people as suspected terrorists. It claims that the open-ended detention of terror suspects is a national security necessity. The contemporary legal issues of these terror suspects have correlations to America’s past. The treatment of … Lire / Read
The Nobel Prize and the ‘Wicked’ Challenge of Climate Change
As recognized by the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) and Al Gore’s style of science communication reflect complimentary approaches to global capacity-building in the face of ‘wicked planetary environmental issues’. How do these initiatives … Lire / Read
History and the Virtual: a Review of Christine Rosen’s “Virtual Friendship and the New Narcissism”
Social networking websites like Facebook and Myspace have achieved widespread popularity in only a short time. On any given day swarms of people update and build their contacts on these sites, posing an interesting challenge to traditional notions of human … Lire / Read
Weakening Immunity: HIV/AIDS and the State
What is the effect of HIVS/AIDS on the state? Civil society can be considered the ‘immune system’ of the state in that it is a pre-requisite for sustaining democracy and is an integral requirement for combating HIV/AIDS. What emerges is … Lire / Read
Are All Invasions Created Equal?
Ecologists, conservation biologists, and wildlife managers often accept that the invasion of exotic species leads to the extinction of native species. One reason for their consensus is that native species declines often occur simultaneously and in the same place as … Lire / Read
Pointing the Way: Lalala Human Steps and the Performing Body
Feminist scholars have recently argued that both ballet and modern dance inscribe restrictive definitions of gender on the body. Is formal dance irredeemable as a mode of feminist expression? The Canadian dance troupe Lalala Human Steps, under the direction of … Lire / Read
Green Laws: Not as Green as We’d Like to Believe
A growing number of citizens demonstrate in favour of the adoption of laws and international conventions that promise to protect the environment. The demonstrations triggered by the Kyoto protocol are an example. However, despite all these genuine efforts, our planet’s … Lire / Read
Learning to Account for the Environment
Mainstream macroeconomic theories tend to leave out environmental issues in their basic calculations. Despite increasing awareness of alternative macroeconomic models among academics, students today continue to be exposed to conventional theories that treat the environmental consequences of economic activity as … Lire / Read