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Lois Ross
April 25
There is a need for a massive re-think about how we build community, rural and urban communities that are resilient, healthy and work towards strengthening self-reliance in the face of climate change. |
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June Chua
April 24
The remote Pacific island nation of Kiribati is drowning. A new documentary captures the ravages of extreme storms and sea-level rise that threaten the tiny country. |
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Duncan Cameron
April 24
In 2019, the Liberals plan a re-run of their campaign of 2015. The focus will be on women voters. The Liberal leader will contrast his "feminism" with the retro approach of the Conservatives. |
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Rick Salutin
April 21
Starbucks is a really irritating corporate juggernaut. They want moral vindication, not just profit margins. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
April 19
Environmental and racial-justice activist Siwatu-Salama Ra was unjustly prosecuted and imprisoned, and, now in the third trimester of a high-risk pregnancy, is serving a two-year sentence. |
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Duncan Cameron
April 17
The Texas-based company Kinder Morgan has the Canadian government doing its bidding, as it looks to expand its Trans Mountain pipeline. |
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Rick Salutin
April 14
Lenin said there are decades when nothing happens and weeks when decades happen. Then there's Trumptime, when every day seems to last a century of cataclysmic moments and tomorrow is another century. |
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Linda McQuaig
April 12
Justin Trudeau's bargain has always seemed full of holes, but perhaps it has taken the Kinder Morgan ultimatum to finally out it as the truly unworkable, fraudulent deal that it is. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
April 12
Revelations about Facebook's role in the exploitation of user data by a company called Cambridge Analytica have provoked widespread calls for tough, new data privacy laws. |
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Wayne MacPhail
April 11
These days my house feels like Downton Abbey. I have a maid, butler or secretary in just about every room. These are all home digital assistants. |
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Duncan Cameron
April 10
Instead of being inspired by his father and using federal constitutional powers to promote environmental protection, Justin Trudeau has adopted the sunny ways approach -- decentralized federalism. |
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Rick Salutin
April 6
You're not supposed to brag about deficit because it sounds "fiscally irresponsible" and it may be why Delaney has never been beatified into the cabinet. |
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Monia Mazigh
April 6
In a democracy, members of Parliament enjoy freedom of opinion and some sort of privilege to speak their minds. Why are so many of them choosing to remain silent on human rights in Palestine? |
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Digital Freedom Update, Marianela Ramos Capelo
April 3
With online platforms increasingly being a site of public discourse in democratic societies, gendered online violence silences and makes invisible a key sector of society in the public sphere. |
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Rick Salutin
March 30
I tend to see the horrors of manipulation as less striking than the signs of human ability to act independently anyway. How else do you explain unexpected events like Bernie Sanders' surge? |
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Edward Hyland, Pro Bono
March 30
Increasingly, charities are looking at using their funds and other resources to contribute to positive social change, as well as to obtain a financial return. But does the law permit them to do so? |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
March 29
Almost one year has passed since Chelsea Manning was released from the U.S Army prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas. On the Democracy Now! news hour, she talked about her newfound freedom. |
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Edward Hyland, Pro Bono
March 29
Are charities legally permitted to make impact investments with their funds? Yes, but, getting to "yes" is not straightforward, and depends on the circumstances. |
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Matthew Behrens
March 29
Beneath the calls for gun control that mark this remarkable political moment, there seems to be an underlying rebellion, one that is demanding an end to the war against youth. |
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Rick Salutin
March 23
As Trump's America veers closer to entertainment than politics, citizens are the losers. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
March 22
Fifteen years have passed since President George W. Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and a coterie of neoconservatives launched the invasion of Iraq with a murderous bombardment of Baghdad. |
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Lois Ross
March 22
In the face of climate change -- and the reduced emissions important to corralling rising temperatures -- train is the one mode of transportation that has a future. |
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Rick Salutin
March 18
The U.S. has seen a return to marches, protest, chants and strikes -- necessary acts that are also fun, writes Rick Salutin. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
March 15
Gina Haspel's work is shrouded in secrecy, but two things are well-known: She ran a CIA "black site" where people were brutally tortured, then she helped cover up the torture. |
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Linda McQuaig
March 15
What's going on in Venezuela is a bitter class war, with millions of poor people committed to defending a revolution carried out in their name, and Canada taking the side of the wealthy opposition. |
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Wayne MacPhail
March 14
It's easy to look back on older technologies: cassettes, carbon paper or acetates and shake our heads in amusement. But the shape of the obsolescence curve hasn't changed, just the slope. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
March 13
In West Virginia, striking public school teachers and staff celebrated a victory last week, inspiring educators outside their state to take action for better pay and working conditions. |
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Rick Salutin
March 13
There's no inherent opposition between democracy and populism. Populism isn't the enemy of democracy; it springs from it and yearns for it. Populism is democratic, that's why they call it populism. |
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Monia Mazigh
March 9
We're told citizens accused of wrongdoing in democracies are entitled to due process. But it seems ethnicity, religion and social status determine whether the same legal principles are applied to all. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
March 6
Students in Parkland, Florida are channelling their rage and sorrow over the killing of 17 of their classmates and teachers against the gun lobby and the politicians in their pocket. |
