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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
September 1
In the shadow of the Games, an extraordinary event has taken place, largely overlooked in the media: a coup d'etat against Brazil's democratically elected president, Dilma Rousseff. |
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Linda McQuaig
September 1
Rather than accepting half-hearted revisions of Harper's corporate-embracing policies, the Trudeau government should refuse to sign any trade deal with sweeping privileges for foreign investors. |
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David Christopher, Digital Freedom Update
September 1
Internet censorship. Website block lists. An extreme new law recently passed in Quebec means all of this could soon be the reality right here at home. |
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Matthew Behrens
August 31
At the end of July, the Supreme Court of British Columbia found that agents of the RCMP engaged in the planning of, preparation and funding for, and facilitation of a terrorist offence. |
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Wayne MacPhail
August 31
It's hard to imagine two sites more different than Gawker and Craigslist, or two people more diametrically opposed than their founders. But each, in their own way, have shaped the journalism of today. |
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Rick Salutin
August 26
Our amicable divorce from nature has led us to lose touch with its danger and power to disrupt by re-entering our space. |
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June Chua
August 26
Giants of Africa is a sports documentary all right, but it's a very human one that you won't forget. Why? The heartbreaking faces of its basketball players will be seared into your memory. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 25
Rather than enabling more dangerous deep-water oil extraction, President Obama should be spending his remaining months in office working to reduce U.S. dependence on fossil fuels. |
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Pro Bono, Katie Douglas
August 25
The treatment of athletes like Caster Semenya at the Rio Olympics shows that the rights of women who do not conform to binary understandings of sex are deemed less worthy of protection than others. |
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Linda McQuaig
August 24
Whether you agree with the BDS movement's boycott strategy or not, it is a peaceful way to protest a serious violation of human rights. |
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Wayne MacPhail
August 24
Mainstream media can't have it both ways. It can't pretend that increasingly depending on sponsored native content to boost its bottom line will have no impact on how it produces news. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 18
A report just published in the British medical journal The Lancet suggests that by the year 2085, almost all of the cities that could host the Summer Games will be too hot for outdoor events. |
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Jim Stanford
August 18
Every five years the federal finance minister updates the "marching orders" that guide the Bank of Canada and its conduct of monetary policy. The time is right for some new thinking. |
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Wayne MacPhail
August 17
What can we learn from the sad fate of the Toronto Star's Star Touch tablet fiasco and its imminent demise? |
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Rick Salutin
August 16
For 50 years the NDP tried to get away from their socialist origins. Maybe it's time to go back to it -- not out of nostalgia, but out of sheer opportunism based on empirical evidence. |
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Lois Ross
August 16
For decades, the trend has been a continuous loss of family farmers in Canada. But now individuals and groups working for food justice are providing alternatives to the corporate model of farming. |
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Rick Salutin
August 12
The great public debate on the theory of relativity happened 100 years ago, but it's refreshing to look back at it in view of how today's major science issue, climate change, has been treated. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 11
Donald Trump is giving new meaning to "bully pulpit," ratcheting his irrational campaign rhetoric to new and dangerous lows. |
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Rick Salutin
August 5
In Copenhagen in 2009, when Brazil's successful bid for this year's Olympics was announced, Lula, then the country's president, leapt in the air and danced. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 5
The Voting Rights Act, signed into law by President Lyndon Johnson on Aug. 6, 1965, helped enfranchise millions of African-Americans over the decades. Today, the struggle continues. |
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Linda McQuaig
August 4
The Liberal government of Kathleen Wynne is hoping Ontarians have long since abandoned the passion that fuelled the century-old popular movement that led to the creation of Ontario Hydro. |
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David Christopher, Digital Freedom Update
August 1
This is it, folks. Over a year since it was forced through Parliament by the Harper government, Canadians will soon have a chance to finally overturn Bill C-51. |
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Rick Salutin
July 29
Why does everyone have such a strong reaction to Hillary Clinton? Rick Salutin opines on this week's pervasive puzzler, raised here and elsewhere. |
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Matthew Behrens
July 29
Those still intoxicated by the dream of a world without Harper don't want the fresh perfume of Trudeaumania to be erased by the cold facts of reality. But it's time to acknowledge some hard truths. |
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Linda McQuaig
July 28
The forces unleashed by Bernie Sanders hunger for a real populism, and they're unlikely to settle for anything less than a party that once again shows backbone against bellicose billionaires. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 28
As the first woman in U.S. history is nominated to be the presidential candidate of a major party, a deep split in the Democratic Party has emerged. |
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Pro Bono, Michael Hackl
July 28
What should the institutions that are privy to our private information do when they have to deal with competing privacy and secrecy concerns? Michael Hackl looks at Canada's privacy laws to find out. |
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Jim Stanford
July 27
Since the 2008 financial crisis, many economic projections now accept a pattern of slow growth as inevitable. Jim Stanford explains why it's important for progressives to dig beneath this argument. |
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Rick Salutin
July 22
It may be that the quality of leadership has been so formularized and commodified that people now yearn for someone who reeks to boredom of being without it. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 21
The Republican National Convention is a highly scripted, elaborately staged and lavishly publicly funded private party. Scores of Trump supporters have proudly shown up with their guns at their sides. |
