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Did Singer-Songwriter Bruce Cockburn Become A Radical?
Did Singer-Songwriter Bruce Cockburn Become A Radical? In elementary school, Bruce Cockburn remembers a teacher wishing upon her class that they all grow up to be “radicals,” a person intent on forcing change by uncompromising methods. The future folk-rock singer-songwriter doesn’t known how that might’ve affected his desire to make a difference in the world, but in the 1980s — after the…
A Pendant That’s Truly The Bomb
A Pendant That’s Truly The Bomb Bomb shellsThe Peace Dove necklace is quite literally the bomb. Each one is handmade out of bombshell casings from Cambodia and sell for $45 through Ten Thousand Villages (www.tenthousandvillages.com). The Cambodian Fair Trade artisan group Rajana purchases the casings from the Halo Trust organisation, a non-governmental…
Glass Tiger keyboardist Sam Reid goes to Afghanistan
Glass Tiger keyboardist Sam Reid goes to Afghanistan What I Saw On My “Team Canada” visit Sam Reid arrives in AfghanistanWords cannot adequately describe the poverty and desperation of the Afghan people that I witnessed when I traveled to Afghanistan in March for a week long Team Canada tour to spend time with our Canadian soldiers. I didn’t realize how…