Columnists
February 21
Ole Hendrickson
| Like cigarettes, cars should have health warnings and governments should place tight legal restrictions on auto industry ads and sponsorships. |
Blog
February 21
David J. Climenhaga
| Andrew Scheer's tweeted observation about Louis Riel, while unique, was paradoxically not unusual. |
Blog
February 21
Dennis Gruending
| Former Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar, who died of cancer in February 2019, was known to say that all religious faith is political. |
Columnists
February 21
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| The longtime activist used a recent controversy over a Birmingham Civil Rights Institute award to advocate for a better future. |
Blog
February 21
David J. Climenhaga
| If Alberta elects a UCP government, we'll likely have to learn that lesson of what's wrong with private health-care delivery all over again, and every day will be Groundhog Day. |
Podcast
February 21
Victoria Fenner
| A conversation with NCRA executive director Barry Rooke about the potential impact of a new funding formula in Ontario being proposed by the Ford government. |
Blog
February 21
Brent Patterson
| The development of a Binding Treaty on Business and Human Rights will be discussed by the United Nations in October. |
News
February 21
Jean Walton
| This excerpt from Jean Walton's new book "Mudflat Dreaming" chronicles how housing activists in 1970s Vancouver responded to the first UN Conference on Human Settlements. |
Blog
February 20
Ed Finn
| Corporate barbarism has intensified on a colossal scale, to the point of endangering the very sustainability of human life on the planet. The scourges of poverty and inequality run even more rampant. |
Podcast
February 20
Face2Face
| Brigid Delaney and David Peck talk about her book Wellmania, the pros and cons of the health industry, loneliness and fasting, community and connections, meditation and how sleep is free. |
Blog
February 20
David Suzuki
| When the bottom of the food chain is endangered, so too is everything up the chain -- including people. Insect declines threaten birds, fish, reptiles and amphibians, and plants. |
Columnists
February 19
Duncan Cameron
| Demoting the justice minister turns out to have created a political storm that Gerald Butts -- given that he must have been in on the decision -- has attempted to quell with his resignation. |