Only in Canada
The trend in the Anglo-American world is to move beyond the conservatism of the Bush era and support progressive, environmentally-conscious governments. Canadians, however, have elected Conservative Party leader Stephen Harper for another term as prime minister, positioning Canada as an outcast among developed nations when it comes to taking action on climate change.

Dame-Ren (No Good People) - As Japan embraced Western-style capitalism, it, in turn, started suffocating the Japanese. The corporation eclipsed every community in Japanese life, providing living spaces, arranging marriages and social engagements, and, most importantly, promising full-time jobs that would last a lifetime.

Enter Jamspace - Described as the dance of natural philosophy, Contact Improvisation, explores spontaneous movement by taking a point of contact with another body as its starting point for exploration through physical movement.

Hipster: The Dead End of Civilization - We’ve reached a point in our civilization where counterculture has mutated into a self-obsessed aesthetic vacuum. So while hipsterdom is the end product of all prior countercultures, it’s been stripped of its subversion and originality, and is leaving a generation pointlessly obsessing over fashion, faux individuality, cultural capital and the commodities of style.

America’s Slippery Slope - “We recognize the debasement of standards, we see the signs of intellectual decay. Yet we do nothing.” A look at what happens when we refuse to pay attention to what’s important.

The End of Childhood - Exposure to nature benefits kids in more than one way.

Val Plumwood’s Natural Death - A portrait of Australia’s pioneer environmentalist who battled a crocodile and called for the end of environmental abuse.

A NEW REVOLUTION – The US presidential elections may finally start the revolution the rest of the world has been waiting for.

AUSTRALIA’S TURNAROUND – After a decade of conservative rule, Australia's is redressing its past so the country can move forward.

TINO SEHGAL – By creating "staged situations" Tino Sehgal forces his audiences to confront art.

MEDIA BULLY – Leonard Asper is distorting Canada's national discourse.

COOL: THE RISE, FALL AND REBIRTH OF AN ATTITUDE – A visual essay on the rise and fall of cool.

NEW WAVE COFFEE – After years of Starbucks domination, indy coffee shops are fighting back.

SINS OF OMISSION – Economists who should have won the Nobel Prize, and those that should have theirs revoked.

THE QUESTION – An Algerian journalist's harrowing account about water torture gives a disturbing glimpse at US actions today.

ECONOMIC CONVERSION – Some of the world's top economists speak about shifting our priorities to save the planet.

CHANGING CLIMATE – Mark Lynas is cautious of accepting that big business has changed its stripes on climate change.

RETURN TO THE SOURCE – A visual tour of food's evolution from the organic to the synthetic.

JOURNALISM'S STATE OF EMERGENCY – How journalism turned from a watchdog to a lapdog of power.

TRUTH IN ADVERTISING – Marketing guru Bob Garfield defends his turf.

IT’S TIME TO RETHINK THE US-ISRAEL ALLIANCE – Chris Hedges on the troubled marriage that’s poisoning the planet.

THE ECONOMICS TEXTBOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY – Why we are still making due with the last century’s economics, by Paul Ormerod.

EARTH, INC. – Stephen Leahy argues that staying in the black now means going green.

WHAT IS CANADA FOR? – A conversation with Michael Byers about Canada’s role on the global stage.

Iran vs. The United States of Amnesia - Deborah Campbell on the forgotten crimes of the West in Persia.

It Will All Fall Down – A conversation with Seymour Hersh.

The Death of Canadian Journalism - Sean Condon on the homegrown media giant that's holding the nation hostage.

Grandma vs. Carbon! - How some very sweet old people taught me how not to trash the planet, by Clayton Dach.

THE DEATH MASK OF WAR – Chris Hedges dissects the intoxicating power of modern warfare.

TAMING THE WATCHDOGS OF MEDIA CONCENTRATION – How the bosses of the Canadian, American and Australian media have put us all in jeopardy, by Sean Condon.

NEOCON II: LIE HARD WITH A VENGEANCE – Matt Taibi on why we shouldn't count the neocons out just yet.

IN SEARCH OF FLOWERS – What one night at the school dance can mean, by Ryan Ziegler.