Columnists February 21
Rush hour traffic in Toronto. Photo: Michael Gil/Wikimedia Commons
Governments should ban auto ads and put warning labels on cars
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
Photo: Andrew Scheer/Flickr
Whose truck is Andrew Scheer riding in?
David J. Climenhaga | Andrew Scheer's tweeted observation about Louis Riel, while unique, was paradoxically not unusual.
Blog February 21
Paul Dewar in 2019. Photo: Phillip Jeffrey/Flickr
Paul Dewar's motto was 'faith is political'
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
Angela Davis delivers lecture in 2014. Photo: Columbia GSAPP/Flickr
Angela Davis returns to Birmingham in her struggle for human rights
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
UCP Leader Jason Kenney, assiduously signing stuff (Photo: Twitter).
Kenney's 'Public Health Guarantee' not worth much, but may be good enough for many voters
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
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Ontario's Student Choice Initiative threatens funding at campus community radio stations
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
Curtailing corporate impunity would defend human rights
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
When Habitat 76 shone a spotlight on housing issues in Vancouver
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
Photo: Rachel Docherty/Flickr
Capitalism worst possible economic system for a planet ravaged by climate change
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
Brigid Delaney, her best selling book Wellmania & the pros & cons of the health industry.
'Wellmania' -- a new book looks at what's well and what's not in the alternative health-care industry
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
Image: Phil Fiddyment/Flickr
You may not like insects, but you need them
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
Gerald Butts. Photo: Tholden28/Wikimedia Commons
Trudeau aide Gerald Butts pulls rip cord amid SNC-Lavalin allegations
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.