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Haida return to leading role in All That We Say Is Ours

With All That We Say Is Ours: Guujaaw and the Reawakening of the Haida Nation, the veteran environmentalist and former journalist Ian Gill has written a brave, honest, and...

Stuffed and Starved makes sense of global capitalist food system

Stuffed and Starved. By Raj Patel. HarperCollins, 438 pp, $29.95, hardcover

Discover the treasures of Hul’q’umi’num narrative literature in Two Houses Half-Buried In Sand

By Beryl Mildred Cryer. Talonbooks, 352 pp, $24.95, softcover

Documented proof of Darwin's natural selection

Peter and Rosemary, both from England, met at the University of British Columbia in 1960. They soon married, and both went on to work as professors of evolutionary biology at...

"Peace" and politics make for strange fellow travellers

During the Israel-Hezbollah war last summer, this column examined Canada's so-called antiwar movement, and concluded that its conduct was squalid, and its "peace" was really about...

History of slavery far from black-and-white

At the bottom of the ladder of wealth and prestige, slavery continues to resist pat categorization.

Journalist speaks up for Afghan women

You could say it was ironic.

Maintain hope, all ye who enter here

After sitting through two days of presentations from some of the world's leading climatologists, ecologists, and fisheries scientists at a recent conference titled Are We Killing...

Ethical fallacies left and right

There aren’t many heroes in Canada quite like Alan Borovoy. As the public face of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for almost 40 years, Borovoy, 74, is an old general in...

Ethical fallacies left and right

There aren’t many heroes in Canada quite like Alan Borovoy. As the public face of the Canadian Civil Liberties Association for almost 40 years, Borovoy, 74, is an old general in...