Connie Harrison and Stacey Bowen were more than faces in the crowd when about 500 social justice activists packed a Queen's Park meeting room in April to tell the provincial government how to fight poverty. They were experts.

I am finding it increasingly difficult to maintain my optimism that we can stabilise global temperature increases below the "danger level" of 2°C. First, there is no sign that emissions are being reduced; rather, the opposite is happening.

A dogged voice for dogfaces and other underdogs. Bill Mauldin couldn’t help himself. Ever since his hardscrabble childhood in the Southwest, the renowned cartoonist championed the oppressed, the underdog.

FAMILY matters to Penelope Wong Ying Yen. It mattered that Wednesday morning of Aug 21, 2002 when the first-term senator took her place in the Senate chamber in Parliament and delivered her maiden speech.

Here's a short history of the evolution of gay playwrights in America. First, there was Tennessee Williams , the theatrical titan who created historic dramas like "A Streetcar Named Desire" but never wrote a play with an "out" gay character.