If you’ve ever walked behind a mall or restaurant at the end of the day, you may have noticed that...
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Cindy McMann earned her Ph.D. in women's writing from the University of Calgary. She teaches fiction, poetry, ecocriticism and women's writing and does community work on the intersection of domestic violence and animal abuse.
It’s game time for people who care about social justice issues. For most of the year we can work on...
It’s about this time of year that I start wondering what will happen to all of the pumpkins dotting the...
There’s a growing body of research that suggests that the self-esteem movement that’s dominated education systems for the past few...
Animals have developed a place in social services directed to some of the most vulnerable populations in our societies. Therapeutic...
Elections are important. Love elections. Elected officials are much better than that old system where if you were wealthy you...
We can never do too much work dispelling myths about people who look or behave differently than we do. In...
Philanthropy is a big economic deal in North America. In Canada, which has the second-largest non-profit sector in the world,...
It’s not news for anyone to hear that beating the living hell out of our natural environment isn’t a good...
One of the things most taken for granted nowadays in education is that technology will make for better classroom experiences...
The essence of green living is consuming less. You sort of can’t get away from that. Consuming less has too...
The recent British House of Commons election made history when it resulted in almost 30 percent of seats being held...
Join me for a brief thought exercise, will you? Or skip a few lines down. I don’t know how much...
No positive changes are ever made in the world without community building. Communities make us stronger, more capable and more...
Two recent news stories have cropped up that demonstrate the precariousness of our ability to engage in environmental concerns in...
There’s a learning model educators use to allow students to measure their attitudes towards the topics they’re applying themselves to....
One of the most basic challenges to living simply is eating simply. It’s one thing not to clutter up a...
If you’ve never read any Thoreau, it’s time to discover him. If you have, it’s time to re-read him and...
There is an etiquette to grief. You would never, for instance, attend the funeral of someone who had died of...
It was when I rounded the corner of the Walmart pet food aisle and discovered that the mechanical grinding that...
Is there a way to engage in meaningful conversation about public life—politics, culture, economics, arts, whatever—online without having it all...
Hooray! You think, if you’re a vampire or an existentialist—it is now November, and soon darkness and coldness will smother...
The classic dilemma of mainstream liberal educational systems today is “how do you get students to care?” There are libraries...
This year has been a year of higher than usual visibility for feminism as random and not-so-random celebrities have claimed...
