I just received my contributor copies of Border Crossings magazine, a well-respected Canadian arts magazine distributed nationally. Last summer I had the opportunity to review an exhibition entitled Oil Spill: New Painting in Ontario at Saw Gallery, a local artist-run gallery. It was a huge challenge to write effectively about six artists [...]
An important announcement from Canadian media - a heralding, a warning, a portent -
The weather phenomenon La Nina will bring Canada the coldest winter in nearly 15 years, Environment Canada warned Friday.
Environment Canada’s temperature forecast shows the majority of the country will experience a “temperature anomaly” of below-normal temperatures through the months of December, [...]
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Putting things in perspective - Alex Wooley’s Office Job/Battery Hens
“A response to the similarities between many office working conditions
and battery farmed hens.”
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I’ve just started listening to a new podcast, the Dawn and Drew Show. This podcast embodies for me those moments you experience with good friends, possibly slightly inebriated, in the middle of [...]
Eric Marcus, a stellar animal rights activist, just shared an article he found in the Vancouver Sun: “Nothing Fishy about Personality Traits in Animals, Study Finds.” Scientists at the University of Guelph find that even “ordinary” Canadian brook trout demonstrate distinct personalities.
The idea of personalities is starting to spread across our views of the whole [...]
I’ve been listening to a lot of great podcast episodes lately, wow! What with the return of the Vegan Freak Radio, as well as the continuing high quality work done by Animal Voices and Vegetarian Food for Thought, I am always keeping up with vegan news and well-researched information. I’ve also been regularly [...]
I’ve been much more social lately than normal, really enjoying getting to know amazing people through the vegan community. Sometimes I just want to stay at home, so it’s great that I’m being pushed to meet new people, which is always a worthwhile experience. Last night there was yet another potluck (so help [...]
Well the evening was a success! Hurrah! Much fibrous plant-based nourishment was had by all. We started off with the Curried Split Pea Soup from Real Food Daily, which I think was my favourite out of all three recipes. I added some collard greens to it since I had them on [...]
Today’s delicious green smoothie: spinach + 2 pears (very ripe) + 1 banana. Delicious! I love ripe pears so much - the smoothie ended up very creamy and sweet, but mild.
Via Noscope:
Ta daa! A logo for Fauna. Since “fauna” means “a living organism characterized by voluntary movement”, the logo takes the shape of a swedish [...]
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SPOILER ALERT. Please do not read past this point if you plan on watching Bee Movie and/or care about having the plot revealed to you.
Premise of this movie in a nutshell: a bee decides he is not happy with the status quo of bee-dom, working his whole life for honey production. He [...]
Sculpture is one of my favourite art mediums - since it is three dimensional, having a sort of embodiment or presence that rivals our own in our space, it has the ability to be extremely engaging and moving. Unfortunately I don’t get to see much sculpture in person - the digital image of a [...]
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