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Monia Mazigh
September 8
The seeds of neoliberalism were planted in the 1980s by right-wing politicians like Ronald Reagan and Margaret Thatcher, and around the world we're still harvesting the fruit of those policies today. |
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Murray Dobbin
September 8
Our new Middle East policy? It's simple. We have no business being there, we have no lofty goals capable of being achieved, we have no genuine national interest. |
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Matthew Behrens
September 7
CSEC believes the glorious act of Canadian democracy is under threat from nefarious foreign actors, but they refuse to accept that the system itself is the problem. |
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Pro Bono, Celia Chandler
September 7
As B.C. prepares to reinstate its Human Rights Commission, it would do well to learn from Ontario, where the introduction of a direct access system has been only a qualified success. |
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Rick Salutin
September 1
There’s an endless appetite for rescue scenes, but little emphasis on what caused the tragedy, and what could have been done to prevent it |
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Marie Aspiazu, Digital Freedom Update
September 1
The Trudeau government has finally delivered on its long-awaited promise to reform Bill C-51, but the changes don't go far enough. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
September 1
The planet is drowning in denial. Climate change is real, and needs to be addressed. |
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Linda McQuaig
September 1
It’s not too late for the country to play leadership role in global struggle to abolish nuclear weapons and outlaw them forever. |
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Naomi Klein
August 29
Now is exactly the time to talk about climate change, and all the other systemic injustices -- from racial profiling to economic austerity -- that turn disasters like Harvey into human catastrophes. |
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Rick Salutin
August 25
The U.S. president lacks the control and detachment to do lasting, structural harm, which any non-trivial destroyer requires. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 25
Donald Trump long advocated for a U.S. withdrawal from Afghanistan. On Monday, he commitment thousands more troops and tens of billions more taxpayer dollars to the war. |
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Rick Salutin
August 18
But no matter how many numbers Freeland plucks to show the economy's mighty growth in the free trade years, in those same years, most people's lives have hardened. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 18
The growing movement for racial justice is making demands and taking action. With each passing day, white supremacists will find themselves with fewer and fewer Confederate statues to cling to. |
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Lois Ross
August 15
Will the Liberal government take this opportunity to encourage sustainable agriculture and healthy food practices -- instead of bowing to the pressure of corporations bent on making profits? |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 11
It's time for Trump to tone down his rhetoric, stop tweeting and assign genuine diplomats to help achieve a lasting peace on the Korean peninsula. |
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Rick Salutin
August 11
Is it possible that tourism has reached the end of its life cycle, like, possibly, zoos? Residents in big tourist cities react a lot like animals in cages: pacing, then snarling. |
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Linda McQuaig
August 8
NAFTA has been key to the transformation of Canada, enabling corporations to become more dominant economically and politically, while rendering our labour force increasingly vulnerable and insecure. |
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Rick Salutin
August 4
What now for Chavez’s children? Events in Venezuela are the latest points of light for young, left-wing idealists to fade. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 3
Trump's calls for violence are no joke, and people across the political spectrum should demand an end to his violent rhetoric. |
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Rick Salutin
July 28
Don't mistake gossip about Trump's tweets, with real politics that affects actual life and impacts those you care about. |
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Elliot Fonarev, Pro Bono
July 28
As marijuana is legalized by the federal government, it will be up to provinces to regulate how it can be used in some spheres. Ontario is asking: where can cannabis be used and who gets to decide? |
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June Chua
July 28
VUCAVU is the brainchild of independent video and film distributors from across Canada, concerned by the tidal wave of digitization that has pushed lesser-known artists to the edges of distribution. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 27
At the forefront of the protests against the various draconian Affordable Care Act repeal bills before the U.S. Senate are people in wheelchairs. |
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Rick Salutin
July 22
The arc of history is long, as Dr. King said, even if it bends toward freedom. But the circle of history, which returns to where it began, can look pretty extensive too. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 21
Cromwell and five others were arrested while protesting against the construction of a fracked gas power plant. He and two others refused to pay their fines and were sentenced to a week behind bars. |
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Linda McQuaig
July 19
The Trudeau government's pledge to hike military spending by a whopping 70 per cent over 10 years succeeded in winning praise from Trump while going largely unnoticed by Canadians. |
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Lois Ross
July 18
Street Farm is the story of Sole Food Street Farms and how the creation of an urban farm eventually developed into a network of four farms located in Vancouver's East Hastings district. |
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Matthew Behrens
July 17
Canadian torture survivor Omar Khadr has been forced to surf the wild wave of Canadian racism and white fragility that marks so much of the gloating Canada 150 party. |
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Rick Salutin
July 14
Coming to terms with a personal odyssey to understand a murky family history that's clouded by cinematic imagery and time. |
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Amy Goodman
July 13
As "Russiagate" becomes a full-blown conflagration threatening to consume Donald Trump's presidency, his denial of human-induced global warming continues to threaten a planet already on fire. |
