By Sarah Kacso (WINDSOR, ON) – In the type of weather where one would expect to see ice floating out to the lake, the river is instead choked with dead and dying fish, and even a dead mallard duck. This isn’t New York’s infamous Love Canal; this is Little River, part of Windsor’s local watershed. [...]
By Sarah Kacso and Colin McMahon (WINDSOR, ON) – Eggs frying, the smell of bacon wafting up the stairs on a Saturday morning, the ‘Pop!’ of toast surrendering itself to the sunlit-kitchen, and birth defects. What a breakfast. When we buy our food from grocery stores, pushing our squeaky carts through aisle after polished aisle, [...]
By Sarah Kacso and Colin McMahon (WINDSOR, ON) – Take a short drive across town, and you’ll likely spot dozens of closed factories – from shipping companies, to tool and die shops and assembly plants, right up to Big 3 facilities. It’s depressing, considering how many people used to be employed in the auto sector [...]
By Sarah Kacso and Colin McMahon (WINDSOR, ON) – With the urban hen debate hopefully hatching on January 24th, it’s highly likely that misinformed anti-chicken propaganda will be spread like pigeon feces throughout the media. I’d like to head that tripe off at the pass in a little piece called ‘Hatching Truth’. We’ve been fighting [...]
By Sarah Kacso and Colin McMahon (WINDSOR, ON) – Imagine today was the day that we ended world hunger. In Africa, in South America, in downtown metropolises around the world, not a single person was left unfed. Certainly, the person or people who accomplished this lofty feat would be celebrated the world over. Now imagine [...]
By Sarah Kacso and Colin McMahon (WINDSOR, ON) – When my grandmother emigrated to Canada in the 1950’s, her family was running from one of the most brutal dictatorships the world had ever seen. Nearly one million Hungarians were enslaved in Soviet labour camps, and hundreds of thousands were shot, drowned, or burned alive. Her [...]
By Sarah Kacso and Colin McMahon (WINDSOR, ON) – Do you hear what I hear? As the holiday season fast approaches, an irritating clucking can be heard over the bustle of (a few) shoppers rushing the malls (the rest of us are unemployed and trying to put food on the table, much less score the [...]
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