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Rick Salutin
August 17
Two of Robert Lepage's shows were cancelled: SLAV, while in production in Montreal, and Kanata, a collaboration with Ariane Mnouchkine's Théâtre du Soleil in Paris. |
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Ole Hendrickson
August 17
The Trudeau government has decided to appeal the Ontario Superior Court ruling that would have allowed charities to do their work on behalf of Canadians, free from political harassment. |
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Duncan Cameron
August 14
A social safety net to ensure that every individual has enough to live on should be standard in a liberal democracy. Canada had such a social safety net, until it was abolished nearly 25 years ago. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 9
Forty years ago this week, Philadelphia police launched a massive attack on the house of MOVE, a radical, back-to-nature, anti-police-brutality and largely African-American organization. |
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Duncan Cameron
August 7
Running in a riding that borders on the petroleum tanker route, Jagmeet Singh can take the environmental case to Burnaby voters in a mini-referendum on the Trans Mountain expansion. |
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June Chua
August 6
'Global Warming and the Sweetness of Life: A Tar Sands Tale' is an important, accessible look at the tar sands problem and what it means for Indigenous communities, Alberta, and Canada. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 5
Emilio Gutierrez Soto, a journalist who fled certain assassination in his native Mexico, has just been released from an immigrant detention center in Texas. |
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Marie Aspiazu, Digital Freedom Update
August 1
Why are we stuck paying sky-rocketing bills while Big Telecom's narrative is all about increased investment and providing quality service? |
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Duncan Cameron
July 31
The provinces' revolts over cap-and-trade and other environmental agreements seem more difficult for the federal government following Ontario's swing right. |
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Rick Salutin
July 27
It's not always easy, in extreme situations, to find the right words. |
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Matthew Behrens
July 26
For a self-proclaimed feminist prime minister, Justin Trudeau has utterly failed in his government's efforts to protect the national security of women. |
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Celia Chandler, Pro Bono
July 26
The competition for securing articles is so intense that the Law Society of Ontario has explored alternatives and is flirting with the idea of giving up on articling altogether. |
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Duncan Cameron
July 24
The power of the tax system reaches deep into the conduct of politics. Not only do taxes fund government spending, tax rules empower some groups while disempowering others. |
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Rick Salutin
July 20
Reflections on Trump's Europe tour, nationalism, and the President's case of whataboutism. |
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Pro Bono, Brian Iler
July 20
The Ontario Superior Court's decision this week was a huge relief to those many charities that suffered through Stephen Harper's politically motivated Canada Revenue Agency audits. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 19
ISP corporations are trying to control the internet, to restrict the free flow of information, to restore their historical role of for-profit arbiter of what we can and cannot read, watch or hear. |
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Lois Ross
July 17
There can be no commitment to a national agricultural policy built on sustainable family farms if the federal government cannot provide a national transportation network. |
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Duncan Cameron
July 17
The publicly owned remnant of CN could build a proper intercity bus service on the Prairies and B.C., connecting with existing passenger rail service. |
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Rick Salutin
July 14
Right-wing populism is not isolated south of the border. There's a rhetorical family resemblance between Ford and Trump that spells danger for Canada. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 12
Juxtapose the outpouring of compassion and solidarity in Thailand with the catastrophe facing millions of children in Yemen, and the ongoing debacle created in the United States. |
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Duncan Cameron
July 10
By defending the U.S. domestic market against foreign exports -- including those from American-owned companies operating abroad -- Donald Trump has resurrected the Fortress America idea. |
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Monia Mazigh
July 6
The dehumanization of Muslim women is ingrained in people's imagination. And the common, simplistic and wrong perception that the hijab is a symbol of oppression is still alive and thriving. |
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Linda McQuaig
July 5
Tarek Loubani, the Canadian doctor injured treating Palestinian victims of Israeli sniper fire, asked the Trudeau government last month for $15 million to help pay for solar panels at Gaza hospitals. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 5
Detention of immigrant families in the U.S. has been happening for years. But, on May 7, the cruel triumvirate of Trump, Stephen Miller and Jeff Sessions enacted by fiat the "zero tolerance" policy. |
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Joyce Arthur
July 5
For the first time ever, an expert group has arrived at a majority consensus that the practice of so-called "conscientious objection" by health-care professionals should not be allowed. |
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Marianela Ramos Capelo, Digital Freedom Update
July 3
SESTA and FOSTA are two bills recently passed in the United States that claim to tackle sex trafficking online -- nothing wrong with that. The problem is that they don't do that. |
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Duncan Cameron
July 3
World commercial expansion is dependent on payments made in the U.S. dollar, a currency that all nations -- except the U.S. -- have to earn through export surpluses, or go into debt. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
June 29
This week the U.S. Supreme Court gave Trump the green light to make his racist ban permanent. |
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Edward Hyland, Pro Bono
June 28
Social finance brings the challenge of how to reconcile two dynamics that historically have been opposed: the private interest for profit and the common interest for public benefit. |
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Duncan Cameron
June 26
Other than attempting to curry favour with the U.S. president it is not apparent the Liberal government has any clear idea of what purpose NATO-related defence spending is supposed to serve. |
