Dec 18 2012
| The intense Canadian political focus on the federal gun registry may have ultimately been a distraction from an even bigger gun issue -- the ready availability of combat weapons in Canada.
Dec 18 2012
| The latest victory of business-funded politics was recorded last week when the Harper Conservatives passed Bill C-377 aimed at hobbling the ability of trade unions to participate in public life.
Dec 17 2012
| Given how much work actually dominates our lives there is precious little public examination of it and almost no debate about how we got to where we are.
Dec 17 2012
| I'm trying to figure out what we've got after the big forest conflagration as pulp mills go down at enormous public cost, ending with the province buying the Bowater lands in western Nova Scotia.
Dec 14 2012
| On December 10th, the world celebrated Human Rights Day. Canada, with the trembling voice of its Foreign Affairs Minister John Baird, added its fading voice to the international scene.
Dec 14 2012
| Art Pape, my lifelong friend, died of cancer last week, at 70. For him, success didn't mean mere fame or achievement; it had to be tied to service to others and social justice.
Dec 13 2012
| The first phase of the court-martial, which civilian defence attorney David Coombs calls "the unlawful pretrial punishment motion phase," considered a defence motion to throw out the entire case.
Dec 12 2012
| Venezuela's leadership has sketched the bridge that progressives need to cross: a genuine alternative to neoliberal modernity found in a fusion of ecological aspirations with struggles for equality.
Dec 11 2012
| What Harper fails to understand is that state strategy is a key element in promoting economic advantages, China being a case in point.
Dec 11 2012
| The federal government's announcement on Friday that it is approving two more big oilsands takeovers was political tap-dancing at its best.
Dec 11 2012
| La violence contre les femmes est une priorité pour les groupes de femmes et les retraités du Congrès de l'Union du Canada. Partout au Canada et à l'étranger les femmes se mobilisent pour riposter.
Dec 7 2012
| Findings of inadmissibility in Canada's immigration system are condemning growing numbers to endless deportation procedures or decades of essentially stateless limbo.
Dec 7 2012
| With several female MPs at his side, Conservative MP Mark Warawa held a press conference Wednesday on Parliament Hill to promote his Motion 408, which would "condemn discrimination against females."
Dec 7 2012
| Under globalization, the old work world is gone forever, and not to be mourned. The need isn't to reinstate the past; it's to provide some security and equity under the new dispensation.
Dec 6 2012
| Violence against women is a priority for women's groups and the Congress of Union Retirees of Canada. Across Canada and internationally, women are mobilizing to fight back.
