Nov 10 2014
| Girls Rock Camp may only be one week but it's loaded with rich experiences, learning moments and collaborations -- creating a space for girls to explore music and build skills.
Nov 7 2014
| In a superbly ill-timed, ill-advised recommendation to young, unemployed Canadians, Bank of Canada governor Stephen Poloz has told them to "Get some real-life experience even if it's for free."
Nov 7 2014
| Countless climate studies end up concluding that what's missing in a shift to low-carbon living is political will. Left unsaid is the incredibly powerful and influential fossil fuel industry.
Nov 6 2014
| Elections in the United States are all about money -- lots of it, increasingly from untraceable, "dark" sources. Ultimately, though, history is not made of money but of movements.
Nov 6 2014
| In his income-splitting tax benefit, Harper is proposing a regressive form of social engineering, using government tax policy to remake the country along the lines of Father Knows Best.
Nov 5 2014
| Internet users around the world have come together to shape a new agenda for how we share and collaborate online.
Nov 5 2014
| Canada's outstanding work to invent the world's most promising vaccine against Ebola perfectly epitomizes both the promise of public research, and the perverse incentives of the for-profit industry.
Nov 5 2014
| Meeting a target of keeping global temperature from rising above 2 degrees Celsius is still possible, according to 30 leading climate and energy experts.
Nov 4 2014
| In the 1980s governments began selling off public assets to private corporations, in a practice called privatization. It should have been called theft, since it amounted to stealing from the public.
Nov 4 2014
| In the face of unrelenting corporate development and encroachment onto Indigenous territories, grassroots movements are persistently mobilizing against the various tentacles of the tar sands industry.
Nov 4 2014
| A new study finds that the level of the minimum wage is virtually statistically irrelevant as a determinant of employment levels in Canada -- even in sectors which use minimum wage labour heavily.
Nov 3 2014
| Two weeks after the senseless murder of a soldier on Parliament Hill there are several things we know and many we don't. Obvious questions have been asked and inconvenient ones have been left aside.
Nov 3 2014
| Since we've yet to see a lick of evidence that there's anything there to frack, the fracking debate may be about something else -- a sort of collective psycho-freakout of forces built up over decades.
Nov 3 2014
| Economists found no statistically significant relationship between a higher minimum wage and a negative labour market outcome between 1983 and 2012 -- dispelling long-standing minimum wage mythology.
Oct 31 2014
| What is this -- the Middle Ages? A Toronto church has given sanctuary to a Hungarian Roma family who came here as refugees. How did it come to this?
