In Mexico City I met Maria, 20. She lives in one of Mexico City’s poorest neighborhoods where violence is a part of life. “Throughout my life, I’ve witnessed many situations of violence that I didn’t even know were violence,” she told me. “I’ve been in violent relationships that I thought were normal. Now I wonder, 'Why is it men can hit us?'"

If we spent money on computers and electrification and high speed transmission wires and networks for matching up complex energy inputs and outputs, those would be very sexy, high paying jobs.

The declaration by Maclean's magazine that Winnipeg is Canada's most racist city mortified those residents who have been working for years to become "good settlers."

Chantal Chagnon presents First Nations culture to schools, universities and other public forums, with some politics thrown in.