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Rick Salutin
August 13
Alberta's chief doctor Deena Hinshaw said that since it's impossible to eliminate COVID, "we need to learn how to live with it." Sounds commonsensical, but what's it mean? |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 13
"We shouldn't be thinking about this as though there is a magic line at 1.5 degrees or at any level below which we're safe and above which we're not," said IRCC report author Bob Kopp. |
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Natasha Darling
August 12
The lack of support for sex workers is by design and a willful policy failure. |
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Rick Salutin
August 6
When Tunisia initiated the democratic Arab Spring in late 2010, it was thrilling to see it move through Libya and Egypt. Ten years later, only Tunisia remains democratic, and now it's teetering. |
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Jim Stanford
August 5
The crypto craze carries the same financial and moral risks as every previous speculative bubble: from Dutch tulips to gold manias to the 1990s dot-com craze. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
August 5
With the latest U.S. eviction moratorium about to expire in August, Congresswoman Cori Bush of Missouri took to the U.S. Capitol in protest. |
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Lois Ross
August 4
Summer months are a good time to catch up on reads. Here are a few food-themed recommendations, touching on many new and upcoming Canadian publications. |
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Rick Salutin
July 30
We're not dealing here (as far as we know) with some internal biochemical imbalances she and others were born with. The distress stems from a situation: Olympics culture in its 2021 version. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 29
His passing should be mourned, but should also serve as a call to action, as the voting rights for which he and so many risked their lives, and for which many died, are once again under assault. |
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Linda McQuaig
July 29
Insulin was never supposed to cost this much. A decision by the Mulroney government made it so. |
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Pro Bono, Michael Hackl
July 28
The Charter of Rights and Freedoms governs the relationship between private persons and government. It typically does not affect dealings that are solely between private parties. |
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Matthew Behrens
July 27
The United Nations has repeatedly called Canada on the carpet for environmental racism, especially in British Columbia, where a massive dam on the Peace River has drawn resistance for years. |
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Matthew Behrens
July 26
For over four years, Inuit and Innu water and land defenders were delivered a clear message through the barrel of a gun: you will be indefinitely jailed if you protect your traditional territories. |
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Lois Ross
July 23
A Health Canada agency is proposing to increase the levels allowed by law of glyphosate (e.g., Roundup) permitted in Canadian food. |
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Matthew Behrens
July 23
Last summer, Manitoba Hydro began the flooding of 45 square kilometers of Cree lands at the massive Keeyask dam, which the energy utility solemnly acknowledges will result in ecological devastation. |
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Rick Salutin
July 23
"Haiti has become a baseball thrown between foreign diplomats" is a good choice of metaphor. Imperialism is the U.S. national pastime. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 22
Jeff Bezos' short odyssey cost an estimated $2.5 million per minute. Armando Alejo Hernandez's journey may have cost him much more. |
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Evelyn Lazare
July 21
As we emerge from stay-at-home orders like groundhogs into the sun, don't forget these important health safety measures. |
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Chuka Ejeckam
July 20
If strategies like reducing one's carbon footprint, voting for the climate, or persuading profiteers with subsidies aren't working, we shouldn't hold to them nonetheless, but seek more effective ones. |
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Minister Faust
July 16
This one weird trick prevents ruined lives and unlocks massive productivity for society. |
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Rick Salutin
July 16
The violent Australian crime series with a wicked sense of fun, Mr Inbetween, ended this week after three seasons. It's the most morally serious crime series. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 15
The rationale for the "election integrity" bills, say the Republicans, is to combat voter fraud -- which has been repeatedly proven to be almost non-existent. |
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Matthew Behrens
July 15
Instead of sending people to jail, Canada now brings the jail to you. Mohamed Harkat's story. |
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Maya Bhullar
July 13
Slow progress is being made through sustained activism to build better ways to protect First Nations children and put pressure on the federal government to actually fund and implement change. |
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Rick Salutin
July 9
Language is an almost entirely symbolic faculty that people are often ready to die for. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 9
Finally, on Monday, the Honduran Supreme Court, in a unanimous decision, found Roberto David Castillo guilty of ordering the 2016 murder of Berta Cáceres. |
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Rick Salutin
July 5
Disturbing stuff will surely continue to emerge about Canada's heroes and institutions. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 1
Adoption of the Abolition Amendment is a necessary step if the US is ever to face honestly the enduring legacy of slavery on which it was built. |
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Rick Salutin
June 25
"I understand, people pay millions of dollars for nice lavish condos that look over the park here and I'm doing it for free...you want me to leave? Fine, I'll leave, I get it." |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
June 24
The gap between the rich and the poor is the result of vaccine apartheid. While this inequity persists, none of us will truly be safe. |
