May 21 2013
| The capitalists won the B.C. election. Extractive industries make big profits in the province, and have bigger plans for its future.
May 21 2013
| Testifying before a Senate committee on a repressive piece of deportation legislation, refugee rights lawyer Barb Jackman aptly summed up the mean political culture that increasingly grips the land.
May 20 2013
| The NDP's stunning loss in B.C. is being deconstructed, dissected, analyzed and mourned over not only here but across the country.
May 20 2013
| The Ivany commission on the "new economy" has written up what it heard on the road in an interim report. In so doing, it has cleared much underbrush and roughed out a path forward.
May 17 2013
| I'll miss Peter Worthington, Canada's archetypal right-wing journalist, who died this week at 86. I say that without irony or subtext. I'll just miss him.
May 16 2013
| Why is Porter, or any airline, allowed to expand its operations over treasured public assets -- our parks and lakes -- when it is duplicating international flights already provided by Pearson Airport?
May 16 2013
| Former Guatemalan president Efrain Rios Montt was hauled off to prison last Friday. It was the first time in history that a former leader of a country was tried for genocide in a national court.
May 15 2013
| Venezuela's government announced that a new labour law, part of which will grant recognition to non-salaried work traditionally done by women, will come into effect this week.
May 14 2013
| With the privatization of research findings, discoveries and knowledge become industrial secrets, unavailable to Canadians who have paid for it, and lost to other scientists.
May 13 2013
| As retirees, during our working lives, we fought hard and long with our unions for the wages and benefits workers enjoy today, a fair share of the richness of Canada.
May 10 2013
| Our governments have become largely a sales force, trooping to Washington to beg the U.S. to buy our oil and build pipelines for it. Resources Minister Joe Oliver is the Willy Loman of this drama.
May 10 2013
| About a week ago, Public Safety Minister Vic Toews overruled a decision made by the warden of Millhaven Institution, and refused an interview request by the Canadian Press to speak with Omar Khadr.
May 9 2013
| It's time for the epidemic of rape and sexual assault in the U.S. military to get the attention it deserves, where the problem is institutional.
May 9 2013
| The fact is that when it comes to the Ontario budget, this is no time for recklessness. We have a unique opportunity right here, right now. And the need for good government couldn't be greater.
May 8 2013
| In his newest bestseller, Anti-Fragile: Things That Gain From Disorder, Nassim Nicholas Taleb utilizes myths to illustrate three types of exposure to the unpredictable.
