A Grain of Truth
An abandoned SPLA tank from the last Sudanese civil war is used as both a toilet and a jungle gym. Photo by Tim Freccia Machar and I spend another day chatting in the shade. It’s difficult to...
View ArticleHanging Out With Norway's Hells Angels
Marcel (on the right) with an Angel. Photo by Hugo Lauritz Jenssen Having spent the last five years following members of Norway's Hells Angels, this year photographer Marcel Leliënhof put together a...
View ArticleSeattle Just Started a Nationwide Push for a $15 Minimum Wage
Activists call for a $15 minimum wage at a rally in Manhattan. Photo via Flickr user The All-Nite Images Last Tuesday, Seattle Mayor Ed Murray signed into law a $15 minimum wage, by far the highest in...
View ArticleVICE Profiles: Teenage Bullfighters
Michelito Lagravere is 16. The day he was born, his bullfighter father was battling a bull. At four years old, Lagravere would run around his house with a towel and "fight" his pet dog. He killed his...
View ArticleCanadian Police Forces Want to Protect You with Military Battle Gear
Photo via Surete de Quebec. Last week, media reports described a city “under siege” as the RCMP hunted for a man who killed three police officers and injured two others in Moncton, New Brunswick last...
View ArticleWe Should Stop Eating Such a Freakish Amount of Chicken
We Should Stop Eating Such a Freakish Amount of Chicken
View ArticleThe Ontario Election Is Thoroughly Depressing
The bleak sight of uninspiring democracy. Photo via Flickr user MGifford. There is a palpable lack of inspiration surrounding the bleak race for Ontario premier. This election is so completely...
View ArticleI Work as a 'Human Table' at Indian Weddings Because I'm a White Girl
A typical message from my employer "I have a degree, you know," I tell the semi-circle of moustachioed men around me, but they don't seem too bothered. "And I'm getting paid 10,000 Rupees [$170] to do...
View ArticleHere Be Dragons: Sorry, Internet, a Computer Didn't Actually 'Pass' the...
If you believe the headlines, a major milestone in the rise of the machines was passed this weekend. The basic gist, from a Press Association report: “A ‘super computer’ has duped humans into thinking...
View ArticleWe're Really Starting to Panic About Heroin in America
A recent demonstration raising an uptick in heroin use in Michigan. Photo via Flickr user Ricky Cain Last week offered a window into the steadily intensifying collective freak-out over heroin use in...
View ArticleAngry Venetians Have Had Enough of the Giant Cruise Ships Polluting Their City
Cruise ships have been ploughing their way through Venice’s canals for the past couple of decades. You may have seen those canals, either IRL or in some mid-afternoon History channel show about 16th...
View ArticleThe VICE Guide to Self-Esteem
Self-esteem: Everyone wants it. Industries are built around getting it and keeping it. Wars are started by people who don’t have it (or have too much of it). The secret to having self-esteem is...
View ArticleCommunity Groups Were Duped Into Joining the Telecom Industry's...
Activists protest Federal Communications Commission (FCC) plans to gut net neutrality in Washington last month. Photo via Flickr user Stephen Melkhisethian What do an environmental group in Ohio, a...
View ArticleTexas Republicans Are in a War Over Weed
Republicans in Texas battled over whether to support medical marijuana at the state GOP convention this past weekend. Photo via Wikimedia Commons Texas conservatives descended on Fort Worth last week...
View ArticleToronto City Council Will Decide if a 24 Hour Drop-In Centre for Women Is...
Monica Forrester speaks outside the Regent Park Community Health Centre. All photos via the author. On Friday, over a hundred people gathered in Toronto’s downtown east end and listened as Monica...
View ArticleI Don't Care How Many People Watch 'Orange Is the New Black'
After a hefty helping of anticipation, Orange Is the New Black season two dropped last week. Despite my standing as an unapologetic contrarian who successfully avoided season one, I watched the first...
View ArticleSikhs Around the World Are Really Embarrassed About That Golden Temple Sword...
Sikhs Around the World Are Really Embarrassed About That Golden Temple Sword Fight
View ArticleCanadian Intelligence Has Opted Not to Start a Bullshit Twitter Account Like...
Canadian Intelligence Has Opted Not to Start a Bullshit Twitter Account Like the CIA's
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