When people hear the word activist or protester, many people immediate get the image of people yelling, breaking things, confronting the police or all of the above. I consider myself an activist and even I get that image thanks to the mainstream media’s representation of both legitimate and irritating protests.
With the 2010 Olympic Winter Games [...]

I was quite surprised when I saw the amount of traction and media attention the Facebook group Canadians Against Proroguing Parliament was getting. Stephen Harper proroguing parliament hardly seemed like an issue that would attract over 200,000 members in less than a month since it was created on December 30, 2009.
How many people know what [...]

I just came back from a very fulfilling two-week bike ride across Cambodia.  A group of us participated in the Riding to Break the Cycle: Cambodia 2010 tour with Global Agents for Change in partnership with PEPY to fundraise for the two organizations.
On a personal level, this trip was a chance for me to at [...]

I asked my roommate what resolutions she will make for 2010. She replied, “I don’t make annual resolutions. I set goals for myself every day.”
That’s a better approach.
We often break the commitments to ourselves to lose weight or reduce our consumption of [insert indulgence here] before the month is even over. Yes, to hold a [...]

My friend Christina and I recently met with two wonderful people who worked with the non-profit PEPY for six months in Cambodia. We will be riding across Cambodia for two weeks at the end of the month to fundraise for PEPY’s Child-to-Child program, which empowers children to be leaders in their community.
One thing Christina and [...]