Tom Sandborn wants to know why Canada seemingly tried to prevent an Ethiopian scientist from attending a key meeting in Montreal to discuss the issues surrounding genetically modified organisms (GMOs). He also asks some hard questions about whether our government is on the side of the corporations, or with the farmers around the world that GMOs are impoverishing.

Jazz pianist Bill King writes an appreciate of just how great Miles Davis was, from stageside.

Dooneyscafe.com’s newest contributor, S.G. Irving, challenges the stereotypes, both real and imagined, that define our shared understanding of life in Atlantic Canada.

Brian Fawcett examines some recent media events, and has some unkind words for everyone concerned…

A street encounter makes Ryan Knighton think twice about British Columbia’s not-exactly controversial Safe Streets Act

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Brian Fawcett crawled out of a two week U.S. Election funk with a serious hangover. He explains why.

Yasser Araft’s death has raised hopes that a new peace can be brokered between Israel and the Palestinian people. Max Fawcett disagrees, but he has a roadmap of his own that he thinks would actually work. Strangely enough, it comes the pages of our own history here in Canada.

Four years ago the American electorate got a little drunk and took the village idiot home. This time, they married him. What does this mean for the rest of us? Max Fawcett has a couple of ideas.