Shafted!
About two dozen sympathizers braved minus-10 temperatures to attend a vigil on Wednesday, 22 January 2014 to mark the tenth Continue reading
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Archive for: Byron Christopher
Crime, Punishment … Salvation?
“I look in the mirror and I see a normal man. But I know I’m not normal.” – Karl Toft. Continue reading
The Man Who Mailed Himself Out of Jail
The Man Who Mailed Himself Out of Jail is the incredible, true story of the world’s greatest prison escape artist: Continue reading
The Muckraker and a Clerk
Before faxes, computers, the Internet, email, cell phones, texting, Twitter, GPS — and sites like Google, Wikipedia and Wikileaks — Continue reading
A Native Protest : 1988
Word came on 28 January 2013 that a well-known band of Cree Natives was throwing its support behind Idle No Continue reading
Prisoner 88 [Part 1]
The young Pole survived four and a half years at the mother of all Nazi death camps — Auschwitz — witnessing unspeakable things. But talk about them he did. This is Part One of his incredible story.
Prisoner 88 [Part 2]
This is the second of two posts on the young Polish prisoner who spent WW2 at Auschwitz. Sigmund Sobolewski returned to Poland with the Author in June 1990. He spoke of torture, his work at the camp, a deadly uprising there … and why a part of Auschwitz was called ‘Canada.’
Unlikely Hero
October 19, 2014, marked the 30th anniversary of a fatal plane crash in Northern Alberta, Canada, where a petty criminal Continue reading
