Michael Greger, MD debutes his annual nutrition seminar, 2015

Fukushima Catastrophe and its Effects on Wildlife (Aug 2014)

Banksy: Exit Through the Gift Shop Documentary

because it's 2015!

Call to Earth - A Message from the World's Astronauts to COP21

Turkey Death Cult News - if you can stomach it

Remembering the U.S. Bombing of a Doctors Without Borders Hospital - October 3rd, 2015

Incredible documentary about Leonard Peltier and some history of the Great American Genocide

John Oliver's Last Week Tonight Canadian Election Info Update

Prairie Giant - the story of Tommy Douglas. We probably wouldn't have a health care system in Canada if it weren't for him.

"The Cut" - Shane Koyczan on Steven Harper

Mumia Medical Crisis Report

Save the Central Walbran Valley! (Drone Footage) - Canada's Grandest Ancient Forest at Risk

Send a message to the BC government at http://www.AncientForestAlliance.org

Did you know this about Ancient Forests?

Harperman, a Protest Song

Soul - a Fringe Festival Review 2015

I'm not a mom but I work with adults who have developmental disabilities so I can completely empathize with the kind of stresses and sadness and joy that Maxine shares in her Soul performance.  I love the people I work with, and I get a chance to miss them on my days off.  Parents raising special needs people don't get a break from it, a chance to put it all in perspective, to take some time for themselves and recharge their batteries.  Maxine has created her own space with this show, and within that space she tells a story of struggle and survival.

Brain - a Fringe Festival Review 2015

Brain wasn't at all what I expected.  I don't know why, but I thought it'd be some kind of scientific explanation about how the brain functions.  Instead it's a very personal story that's both amusing and disturbing.  It helped me understand a bit more about how my own brain functions, and I left with a new awareness of how OCD, the obsessive compulsive disorder that so many of us joke about, can actually take over someone's mind.

If this is Brendan McLeod's own story, as his indicates it is, he's a very brave man.  It's not easy to live with a history of mental illness, there's always judgment and stigma associated with that.  It's strange that it's called "illness," really, when it's really just about people trying to sort out who they are and what it's all about.  Thanks to Brendan who confidently and skillfully guides us through the adolescent brain with its conflicting hormonal influences and rebellious attitudes, to describe the moment his brain and body disassociated entirely in an experience of pure psychosis, to the educated University brain/mind/body/ego/self combination that seeks to find meaning and direction from life.

Camel Camel - a Fringe Festival Review 2015

Camel Camel is laugh out loud funny.  I left the show wondering if that's all I was supposed to do, though, or maybe there was some deep philosophical underlying message that I should be taking away with me?

Janessa Johnsrude and Meghan Frank's show is described as "David Lynch meets Abbott and Costello."  It's definitely strange, weird, surreal, fantastical ... but it also seems to invite us to question our awareness of self, identity, dualism, the doppelganger phenomenon. 

We're told early on that the story we'll hear is somehow connected to what's going on in the head of a Ukranian prisoner, then we're led on a journey of self exploration that seems to include gender bending, gender confusion, an exploration of sexuality and self discovery where mind over matter meets matter over mind.  The sisters seem aware of being observed while overtly unaware of their own selves.  "How can I be beginning and ending all at once?" is one question left unanswered.

Sid: the Handsome Bum - a Fringe Festival Review 2015

Sid the Handsome Bum is a sensitive, thoughtful portrayal of a variety of personalities who inhabit the DTES, all rolled into one.  It's written by Ira Cooper who mentioned, while promoting the show in another Fringe lineup, that he invested considerable time in the DTES talking to some of the characters there.  He said he listened carefully and wanted us to know that his motive is to help tell their stories, not to exploit them.  Sid is beautifully portrayed by actor Joanna Rannelli.  Ira and Jo are members of Vancouver's Spec Theatre (https://spectheatre.wordpress.com)

Sid invites us to look at shopping carts, and the people who call them home, in a whole new way.  In fact, it's difficult to look at a shopping cart the same way again after meeting Sid, and the various characters who contribute to his DID - Disassociative Identity Disorder.  Despite his multiple personalities, at one point Sid describes himself as a nobody.  "I'm no-one."  Is it surprising to think that this is how a homeless person might feel?

Music Video: #NoPipelines #NoTankers in the Salish Sea

Drawing the Line in the Walbran

It Happened a Year Ago in Gaza - Black Friday

The Power of Our Food Choices: Lauren Ornelas at TEDxGoldenGatePark

Police Remove Greenpeace Activists from Portland Bridge After They Forced Shell Ship Back to Port

RASTA Farm Sanctuary on Vancouver Island

Theodore Bikel Remembered: Fiddler on the Roof Actor and Activist Speaks Out on Israel and Palestine

need beef? just give up showers. the yes men explain how to deal with california's drought

The attack on Marianne av Goteborg in International Waters near Egypt - 2015

How a trucker lost 65 pounds by cooking vegan meals on the road

hurray vancouver! 350Vancouver #JobsJusticeClimate Line in The Sand

it's tough to argue with her emotional logic

now there's nowhere in the world that doesn't have "american" tourists

TransCanada Trespasses in Unist'ot'en territory - June 2015 update

Tunisia Minute Of Silence - Total Bullshit: Russell Brand The Trews (E350)

Rejecting Israeli Narrative, Free Gaza Campaigners Say Tasers Were Part of Violent Assault on Ship

#gaza #freedomflotilla

two canadians (kevin neish and robert lovelace) detained in israel.

write your mp

full story here

How to Treat High Blood Pressure with Diet

For the Grandchildren

Last Week Tonight with John Oliver: Online Harassment and Violence Against Women

Join Treaty 8 Nations and say “No Dam Way!” to Site C

Pope Francis: The Encyclical

Estelle mission. From port-to-port to Gaza (2012)

"Cultural Genocide": Landmark Report Decries Canada’s Forced Schooling of Indigenous Children

Rachel Notley's Rally for Change - Edmonton

Mumia Abu-Jamal Needs Medical Care NOW!

Thich Nhat Hanh On the Liberating Effect of Accepting the Possible Destruction of Civilization

Conservative MPs get a surprise delivery of toxic debris from Vancouver oil spill

Propaganda Terms in the Media and What They Mean - Noam Chomsky 1989

Emperor's New Clothes - Can Things Change?

Jim Carrey's Commencement Address at the 2014 Maharishi University of Management Graduation

The Best Of Glen Greenwald - Talking About NSA, Edward Snowden, CIA

IMF-WORLD BANK's BLOOD MONEY IN LATIN AMERICA

see also - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PF80k-uxMMY

Concert to protect the Peace River Valley

Oil Spill Disaster in English Bay ... this is why we say NO PIPELINES, NO TANKERS !!!

Volunteers attempt to clean up English Bay after Bunker fuel spill from Directly Affected on Vimeo.

Mazin Qumsiyeh Palestine Today and in the Future

Democracy Now: how a plant based diet can help solve california's water crisis

Author and activist Gene Baur describes how vegetarianism and veganism can have enormous environmental and health impacts in his book "Living the Farm Sanctuary Life."

Mumia Abu-Jamal Moved from Prison to Intensive Care (he's back in prison now, shackled to his bed rails)

From Ferguson to Palestine

Climate Scientists are Fighting Back - It Gets Personal!

four years since fukushima

Elizabeth May at UVic - Discussion about Privacy and Security - Bill C51

Hey Steve (Harper)

Citizen's Forum - a locally produced independent TV news review

Pam Palmater talk, The Law's Role in Canada's Disgrace: Murdered & Missing Indigenous Women & Girls

Speaking Truth to Power: Vegan Advocacy & Social Justice

Israel, Palestine and the Canadian Connection

Jeff Halper, founder of Israelis Against House Demolitions, speaking in Duncan BC, explains that what is happening in Israel and Palestine matters to Canadians and the rest of the world.

#animallivesmatter

Earthlings. It's why we're vegan.

Wa'a Delivers Notice to Desist, to TransCanada Pipelines - Idle no more

Camp Madii Lii BLOCKADE - Stopping Fracking Pipelines

Camp Madii Lii from Graeme Pole on Vimeo.

Joaquin Phoenix Slams Walmart for Supporting Sickening Cruelty to Pigs

The ad spoof Pepsico doesn't want you to see

Wealth Inequality in Canada - with Ed Broadbent

Eating Meat in Moderation - why that's not good enough

Why Vegan and not Vegetarian? Thich Nhat Hanh answers the question