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Pro Bono, Brynn Leger
August 30
If denying access to supervised injection sites was found to be an infringement of the Charter by the Supreme Court, the same may be said of Ontario's decision to halt new overdose prevention sites. |
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Duncan Cameron
August 28
The problem with the federal government's new anti-poverty statement is that it includes no new poverty reduction measures. |
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Rick Salutin
August 24
U.S. deep state villains are called 'patriots' for preventing Trump coup. |
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Monia Mazigh
August 24
Politicians who are raising the spectre of fear around immigrants today evoke the discrimination that immigrants have faced over the course of Canada's history. |
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Naomi Klein
August 23
On Sunday, August 1, the entire New York Times Magazine was composed of just one article on a single subject: the failure to confront the global climate crisis in the 1980s. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 23
Around the U.S., people are resisting racism amid a rising white supremacist movement emboldened by the election of President Donald Trump. |
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Lois Ross
August 23
All farmers know of Roundup, the most effective weed killer. Now, courts are accepting that it likely kills much more than just weeds and that Monsanto has acted to cover up concerns about safety. |
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Duncan Cameron
August 21
Activist Jean Swanson was sentenced to seven days in jail for defying a court injunction banning protesters from the Trans Mountain pipeline extension construction site on Burnaby Mountain. |
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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. |
