From a very young age, I was aware that there are many things wrong in this world, and I wanted to change them. I was politically active by the time I was eighteen. In 1973 I became an environmental activist, before the average person on the street had any idea that there were any serious environmental problems. In 1977, I came out as a lesbian, and I was on the front lines of the feminist movement in England for a number of years, involved in a militant campaign to undermine male chauvinism. I was angry. Read the rest of this entry »
This Sunday, October 16, Life Rattle host Laurie Kallis will introduce two widely divergent stories by new Life Rattle writer: Read the rest of this entry »
This is Donna Kakonge and I have been posting on Donna Magazine, my magazine, for years now. Now I have a new show starting in June called “Ideal Job” that is airing to a world audience through Donna Magazine VideoPress, that has been long-established. I also have 42 self-published books on Lulu.com. I will be traditionally publishing a book called Only My Voice with Life Rattle Press to be coming out in the fall of 2012. As well, I am working on a new book tentatively titled Church Sunday. Read the rest of this entry »
Day Three: On the third day, I listened to my iTunes starting from 11:52 p.m. on Wednesday, February 2, 2011 to 12:13 p.m. on Thursday, February 3, 2011. I listened to five songs. The first three were R & B, with one of the singers being Angie Stone from the U.K. The fourth song was in French (translation included). The fifth song was again R & B. Setting: On brown couch in my living room at home: Read the rest of this entry »
Wednesday, December 14, 2011 – 3:50 PM
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Pedestrian safety initiatives delivered by the Toronto Police Service are designed to promote cooperative safety strategies with members of our communities, using awareness, education and enforcement. Read the rest of this entry »
Hypocrisy is Highlighted in this Essay by Co-Authored by Brikena Ribaj - Photo Courtesy of Morguefile.com
By Brikena Ribaj & Scott Bradford
Hypocrisy and the Lies of Time:
An Angelic Dilemma
Hypocrisy of Time
He is ageless, the hunter
With neither beginning nor end
Changeless, yet the father of all change.
His gaze is eternal
Without preference or guile
He loves, yet loathes all.
And…thus…Cassiel…falls…
Back to the Roots is the theme of the 10th anniversary of the IDFF as we pay tribute to the Iranian roots of our festival. What began in 2001 as the Iranian Diaspora Film Festival quickly evolved into the International Diaspora Film Festival. Read the rest of this entry »
I am here by letting you know about our new establishment “East African Restaurant and Bar” which serve dishes from Uganda, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda and Burundi.
On our Menu, you will find Matooke, Binyebwa, ngege nebilala bye mwandi yagade okulya.
Book Review of Toni Morrison's Award-Winning Book Beloved
Terry Otten suggests that while Sethe and the other slaves “might be considered simply victims in slavery, once they move towards freedom north of the Ohio River … they assume responsibility for their own ‘criminal’ act and become `victims’ of their own flawed humanity as much as the viciousness of whites.” In this essay, the validity of this statement will be tested against Beloved. References from the novel will show how Terry Otten is incorrect.
MONTREAL, May 17, 2012 /CNW Telbec/ – The Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal is proud to announce the appointment of Alexandre Taillefer to a five-year term as Chairman of its Board of Directors. The appointment was approved by Quebec’s cabinet yesterday, May 16, 2012. Read the rest of this entry »
TORONTO, May 17, 2012 /CNW/ – Retail Council of Canada (RCC) announced today that Brian Hill, Founder & CEO of Aritzia LP, will be honoured with the 2012 Distinguished Retailer of the Year Award. Read the rest of this entry »
TORONTO, ON (May 22, 2012): On May 23, more than 60 students from three Toronto public schools will come together to collaborate on an innovative multi-disciplinary arts project coordinated by Arts for Children and Youth (AFCY). Made possible with funding from TELUS, the AFCY project is called Digital Dialogues, and it’s inspiring Toronto youth to use arts/media technology as a tool for communicating what matters to them, and how they want to convey that to an international audience. The collaborative performance takes place between 10:00 am and 2:00 pm, at Lord Dufferin Public School located at 350 Parliament Street in Regent Park. Read the rest of this entry »
I took the hour commute by TTC to Seneca College on York University’s campus to teach. On my way a woman spoke in what sounded like Polish on a cell during the moment of light on the northbound University-Spadina line. I caught all my buses and subways. I even made sure I was the third person off the bus to Dupont Station through the turnstiles and I think this helped me with my luck at getting the subway right away.
TTC – Eglinton West subway stop to #32D bus going west
- #29 bus north/south on Dufferin: Eglinton bus-stop. For those who drive, the main intersection is Eglinton/Dufferin: street parking is free after 6:00 pm and there is parking across the street and a Green P parking lot on Eglinton, just west of Dufferin.
This is a book of the academic discovery of natural and colourful beauty in education by Donna Kakonge in her first year of PhD studies at OISE/University of Toronto.
“Every time I see you falling, I get down on my knees and pray.”
The techno-rhythms and words of New Order blared in Sharon’s car as six teenagers were squeezed inside. We were going down to Kensington Market as part of our late 80’s ritual, coming from “Asiancourt.”
Chances are, if you’re like most people you don’t have a lot of patience when it comes to dropping flab.
ESPECIALLY with summer and swimsuit season already upon us (it’s actually already here in Austin).
With that in mind, is it possible to really drop 10 lbs in just 7 days? It is, if you follow these steps (and you have 30 or more pounds to lose overall). Read the rest of this entry »
He has been my hero since I was young. We have had our tough times. When I was born, he was not even there – he was at work. My Dad is a hard-working man who once told me that he likes to “struggle.” His life has been a lot about struggling.
Paul Ng Addresses a Crowd with his Feng Shui and Geomancer Expertise
Paul Ng is a geomancer and feng shui expert that helps to improve the lives of others, as well as former corporate manager. He has worked with Ernst & Young that was the largest accounting firm in all of Canada at the time as a data processing manager. He has been vice-president manager of a subsidiary of Canadian Pacific called Marathon Realty. This was the largest company in Canada. He became a director at CIBC and then gradually owned his own company.
Thursday, the Canadian Radio-television and Telecommunications Commission
(CRTC) introduced a new policy that will encourage large telephone
companies to rapidly adopt Internet Protocol (IP) throughout their
networks. This shift will promote the development of innovative services
for Canadians. Read the rest of this entry »
Donna Kakonge is Heading Media Arts Classes Online - Photo Courtesy of Google Images
Quality instruction in media arts online teaching, affordable Donna Kakonge book purchases and to-your-home coaching and training, and publish your stories for free on this magazine. Read the rest of this entry »
Yesterday and all the yesterdays there ever were have a tremendous impact on our present life, and also on our future. Media history is a relatively young area of study, but with roots that are very old. This paper takes a position on three main questions of media history and historiography focusing on two readings selected from a list of readings in the History of Media class at Concordia University. Read the rest of this entry »
TORONTO – One-third (33 per cent) of first-year post-secondary students (37 per cent of females and 27 per cent of males) expect to have significant debt on graduation day, and are deferring worrying about it until then (38 per cent), according to the 2011 RBC Student Savings and Spending Poll. Females (44 per cent) are more likely to be concerned than males (30 per cent). Read the rest of this entry »
God has raised up a modern Deborah in the person of Miss Ida B. Wells, whose voice has been heard throughout England and the United States…pleading as only she can plead for justice and fair treatment to be given her long-suffering and unhappy people…(Duster, 1970, 1972: xiii)
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Bargains are a double-edged sword. They can save you money, but they can also make you poor. If you are trying to stick to a budget grabbing up bargains can easily blow that budget.
It was an opportunity of a lifetime – a free ticket to South Africa. My boyfriend at the time wanted to show me the country of Nelson Mandela, the country of Kwaito music. South Africa had been on my travel list for eight years.
Report on Mining, Oil and Gas Companies CSR Initiatives Released
OTTAWA, Jan. 19, 2012 /CNW/ – The Mining Association of Canada (MAC) today released a report providing an update on the status of recommendations arising from the National Roundtables on Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and the Canadian Extractive Industry in Developing Countries. Read the rest of this entry »
In the true spirit of this day, Monday, June 22, 2009 – I changed my mind again. I decided to start off by listening to Brand New Day. The first song “A Thousand Years” is something that really suits the nighttime and it is actually 11:12 a.m. at this precise moment. I love the opening…it sounds as though it could be in a movie. Sting has such a husky voice, a smoker’s voice. I am sure he would be considerate enough to smoke outside. Read the rest of this entry »
Fran Rider, Executive Director of the Ontario Women’s Hockey Association says Canadians are born with an interest in hockey. She came from a sports-minded family and started playing around 1967. Read the rest of this entry »
Oh Huishan, international indie author from Singapore, “recovered” from schizophrenia against all odds through writing and self publishing her books.
International (PRUnderground) February 7th, 2012
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The battle with a mental condition such as schizophrenia can be a daunting and complicated process but Oh Huishan, an international self published author, went into a writing career just because of that. The range of moods and negative feelings that went through Huishan brought her over the edge. She lost her sense of what reality was and the hallucinations and voices in her mind only made things worse. She ended up losing normal self care functions of a human being and had to wear adult diapers, depending on the health attendant lady at the mental hospital ward to bathe her sometimes, at the age of 23 years old. Read the rest of this entry »
There are more than 70,000 biracial people living in Canada according to Statistics Canada in 2001. They may have any combination of heritage including Aboriginal, black, white, South Asian, Chinese, Korean, Japanese, Southeast Asian, people from the Philippines, Arab/West Asian and Latin American. Christine Chin who is a salesperson with Conservus, a concierge company, calls herself Jamaican-Canadian and Canadian ultimately.
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