Feb 4 2013
| On January 28, 2013, Canada celebrated 25 years of no abortion law. I've put together a selection of key works on the history of the pro-choice campaign and the Supreme Court decision.
Feb 1 2013
| Twenty-five families or individuals in Canada hold more than $1 billion in assets, according to Forbes Magazine.
Feb 1 2013
| This isn't the politics of ideas and issues anymore, though it has those. It's the politics of inclusion. Obama's win in the U.S. is the prototype, but only in his second election.
Jan 31 2013
| On January 8, 2013, Frog Lake First Nation and Mikisew Cree First Nation launched judicial review cases in the Federal Court to challenge the passage of omnibus budget bills Bill C-38 and Bill C-45.
Jan 31 2013
| Professor Jeanne Theoharis debunks the myth of the quiet seamstress in her new book The Rebellious Life of Mrs. Rosa Parks.
Jan 31 2013
| What the history books will say, if things work out as they should, is that Spence stands among the most courageous and creative political leaders to have graced this country's mainstage.
Jan 30 2013
| On January 21, President Obama delivered an inspiring inaugural speech: he insisted that what was distinctive about the United States was its commitment to equality, quoting the Constitution.
Jan 29 2013
| At the halfway point in its majority mandate, the Harper government treats the House of Commons with disdain. It wants to foster cynicism about Ottawa, Parliament and the political process in general.
Jan 29 2013
| The condo boom is gobbling up land almost as fast as it sucks up mortgage debt. Important tracts of urban space have been drawn into the vortex of real estate speculation.
Jan 28 2013
| The Liberals and the NDP don't have to grow their support much to deny Harper a majority but neither of the parties will be strong enough to grab minority status for themselves.
Jan 28 2013
| Hydro-Quebec is thinking of intervening in the Nova Scotia Utility and Review Board hearings on the Muskrat Falls/Maritime Link project.
Jan 25 2013
| I know we don't characterize democracy as talking, we picture it as voting, but that's what you could call the voting fallacy. It's not how democracy was in ancient Athens where all citizens met.
Jan 24 2013
| The documentary film Dirty Wars: The World Is a Battlefield exposes the Obama administration's threatre of war and hears from people who live at the target end of U.S. foreign policy.
Jan 23 2013
| We need to focus research on our generation's most pressing question: what is a persuasive, sustainable, socially just, employment-producing, alternative to the neoliberal economic model?
Jan 22 2013
| It is an open secret that Liberal partisans want Justin Trudeau to lead the party. Yet, eight other candidates showed up to the first Liberal Party of Canada leaders' debate in Vancouver Sunday.
