Former holder of the Maclean-Hunter chair in ethics in communication at Ryerson University, founding editor of This Magazine and Globe and Mail columnist since 1991, National Newspaper Award winner Rick Salutin adds his voice to the continuing debate over the recent events in Haiti, providing historical perspective and insight.
Box Office Preview: Christ will rise again
According to Entertainment Weekly, Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ will, once again, re-emerge as the box office victor this coming weekend.
Even so, the Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson comedy vehicle — a big-screen update of the ’70s TV hit Starsky & Hutch — should settle in comfortably in the number two spot at the box office. Meanwhile, Gitesh Pandya at Box Office Guru also predicts a second place finish for S & H, but with a lesser take.
In the also ran category this week, newcomer Hidalgo, and holdovers 50 First Dates, Twisted, Academy Award-winner The Lord of the Rings: The Return of The King, and Confessions of a Teenage Drama Queen.
Vote against gene-altered food historic
Writing in the Madison, Wisconsin Capital Times, John Nichols suggests that a more momentous event, this past Tuesday, than the ascendancy of Senator John Kerry to the role of assured Democratic candidate against George Bush come this November, was an historic vote that took place in northern California’s Mendocino County, where voters passed the nation’s first ban on the raising of genetically engineered plants and animals.
The Junk Science of George W. Bush
Senior attorney for the United States’ Natural Resources Defense Council and president of the Waterkeeper Alliance, Robert F. Kennedy, Jr. takes on the flat-earthers within the Bush Administration who have set about to purge, censor and blacklist scientists and engineers whose work threatens the profits of the Bush administration’s corporate paymasters.
In the December 11th issue of Rolling Stone, Kennedy provides even more supporting documentation for his argument that “George W. Bush will go down in history as America’s worst environmental president.”