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Being bourgeois - Come to a salon
We’re hosting a salonFarmers flaunt wealth in support of starving peasants
Is a world-record harvest of soybeans by a line-up of quarter-million dollar combines part of the solution to world hunger? That depends who you ask.People power at Occupy Wall Street
On October 14, 2011, the 3,000-plus crowd occupied the park, Liberty Plaza, near Wall Street. The mayor tells the police to stand down.Christian school cancels Bush breakfast
A Christian post secondary school in Toronto thought it could get away with holding an unpublicized fund-raising breakfast featuring George W. Bush. The secretive approach back fired, and the school president missed his chance to shake hands with the most famous Christian of our time.Sunday is not a day for school
Now that my son is 4, I can no longer ignore the question of how to talk with him about God. I don’t know what to say to him. The closest I’ve come is to take him to the nouveau-Anglican church down the street – the one with a well-equipped playroom and a communion service compelling enough to draw the little guy away from the toy garbage trucks.Day 1 report - Veggies with my vegetables, made radio appearance
Day 1 report - I ate lots of vegetables, was super scrupulous about counting the amount I spent on food. Also was on the radio.Day 1 on four dollars of food per day
I ask my initial questions. How to count the dollars spent on food? Is this really helping?In defence of voter apathy
I’ve always felt it was my duty as a supposedly good citizen to vote. But this year, as the inanity and acrimony of the Manitoba election campaign wore on, I said screw it.Live on 4 bucks a day - human library experiment
The Canadian Foodgrains Bank, Oxfam and others are hosting a human library event in Wininpeg. Geez editor Aiden Enns and his partner Karen Schlichting will be “human books,” available for “taking out” and “reading.” Lot’s of quotation marks there.Occupy Wall Street - Dissent at the feet of power
Geez notes the actions happening off Wall Street. Anti-greed, pro-generosity and democracy activists sleep in nearby park, call for finance reforms.
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