The Malthusian Nightmare - 5/16/2008

I live in a small town in southwestern Ontario. When forced to wait for more than a few cars at the main intersection you begin to wonder what’s wrong and why people don’t just stay at home and stop pushing my road-rage buttons.

Why Are We Doing This? - 5/2/2008

Fear Mongering in the Immigration Debate - 4/25/2008

Back in college, my roommates and I made a game out of watching the introduction to CNN’s Lou Dobbs Tonight. We tried to guess how many headlines would relate to the “threat” of “illegal aliens.” Whether it was a crime wave spurred on by Spanish-speaking gangs, leprosy carried by immigrants across the border, or a loss of jobs by “hard-working Americans” to “illegals,” Dobbs’ anti-immigrant paranoia usually saturated half his headlines.

Can These Bones Live? - 4/11/2008

So, is the news these days from Iraq good or bad? It all depends on who you ask.

War, FARC and Prayer - 4/4/2008

On March 1, 2008 a high stakes diplomatic and military standoff erupted in South America when the Colombian army entered Ecuador to track down members of the Marxist-Leninist revolutionary guerilla organization FARC (Fuerzas Armadas Revolucionarias de Colombia).

Haitian Asylum Seekers - 3/28/2008
Detention, Deportation & Discrimination

Imagine living in Haiti. You experienced a life of civil unrest where armed rebels surrounded your community, and a military coup broke out. Several years later, your home was damaged by storms and hurricanes. Most educational and health infrastructures were paralyzed. Having fled Haiti, you may feel you have the right to refugee or asylum status in the United States, but because of various political and legal intricacies, such status will be difficult to obtain.

When the Mighty Fall - 3/20/2008

Baron Black of Crossharbour has downsized his living arrangements from mansion to prison cell. Conrad Black, newspaper mogul, king of the hobnob, British citizen – who voluntarily revoked his Canadian citizenship in protest because then Prime Minister Jean Chretien would not bless his call to peerage in the British House of Lords – is now bringing the Ritz to an American penitentiary for fraud. He is a man of varied international abode.

A Call For Prayer and Action For Peace in Colombia - 3/17/2008

Arturo and Alcira were members of the United Pentecostal Church of Colombia. Arturo and his son Pablo worked as manual laborers on various farms. One day while working, they were blindfolded and forced from the fields by armed men.