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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. |
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Pro Bono, Claudia Pedrero
June 24
In a policy change effective March 1, 2021, Air Canada implemented a ban on emotional support animals in its cabins. |
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Lois Ross
June 23
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown the importance of supply management and how it has actually helped secure domestic supply and lessen food waste compared to the situation in many other countries. |
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Duncan Cameron
June 22
Originally conceived to block Soviet expansionism, the dissolution of the Soviet Union meant the collective security alliance was obsolete. Yet, the U.S. claims international security relies on it. |
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Matthew Behrens
June 21
Last month, UN secretary general António Guterres declared: "If there is a hell on earth, it is the lives of children in Gaza." |
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Rick Salutin
June 18
Not answering questions is a crucial life skill for leaders, but Annamie Paul managed to make others look like babbling brooks. |
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Evelyn Lazare
June 18
With new variants developing rapidly, Canadians can expect that an annual booster for COVID-19 will become a routine part of preventive health care. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
June 18
"Eventually, [whistleblowing] looks more right than going into the office and perpetuating a system of injustice quietly, day after day," said Edward Snowden. |
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Increasing Access to Justice, Sheldon Falk
June 17
Don't let Bill S-222 -- which seeks to eliminate mandated racist and colonial ways of engaging with communities -- die on the order paper. |
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Duncan Cameron
June 15
The U.K., Germany, and Canada were silent on the subject of monopoly pharmaceutical companies unwilling to act on behalf of countries in need of vaccines because it would interfere with their profits. |
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Rick Salutin
June 11
Can you build a national identity around having no one national identity? |
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Minister Faust
June 11
How many otherwise bored, overlooked, or alienated African-Canadian kids could teachers inspire if they taught a "Wakanda" curriculum connecting the fictional content to its real-world inspiration? |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
June 10
Two hundred is the approximate number of water protectors arrested on June 7, during the largest act of nonviolent civil disobedience against Line 3 construction to date. |
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Monia Mazigh
June 9
The core narrative remains untouched: Canada is a polite and compassionate country; we don't do these things at home; we are shocked by these acts of violence. |
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Duncan Cameron
June 8
Last week's G7 finance ministers' meeting in London resulted in the recommendation of a global minimum tax on multinational corporations' profits across jurisdictions at 15 per cent. |
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Rick Salutin
June 4
Our current economic system is as feudal as it gets, outdoing the landlordism of the Middle Ages. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
June 3
Two necessary steps to stop mass shootings are to deny men who abuse women at home the freedom they currently enjoy to buy and own guns, and to take violence against women seriously. |
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Linda McQuaig
June 3
The Bill Gates-big pharma model has been a disaster, with pharmaceutical companies making astronomical profits as they dole out scarce supplies of their patented COVID vaccines to the highest bidders. |
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Duncan Cameron
June 1
Will the U.S. movement to full employment provoke an adoption of full employment by the Canadian government? Past experience suggests it is not that simple. |
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June Chua
May 31
Dandelions traverse the earth. The globe is their realm. At times, they are viewed as foreign. Invasive, threatening and alien to the carefully curated spaces seen as proper and acceptable. |
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Rick Salutin
May 28
A provincial election's a year away in Ontario, but even now subjugates the pandemic. |
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Matthew Behrens
May 28
There has been increased focus on the growing Canadian relationship with Israel's drone warfare industry over the past month, as the Israeli military targeted Gaza with an 11-day terror bombardment. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
May 27
The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was one of the single greatest acts of racist terrorism in U.S. history. |
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Chuka Ejeckam
May 27
Israel is merely one entry in a list of countries Canada sells weapons to which systematically violate human rights, including the massacre of civilians. |
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Safia J. Lakhani, Pro Bono
May 27
As employers and workers navigate the re-opening of the workplace post-pandemic, it is worth considering certain key principles in employment law and their application in the return to work. |
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Duncan Cameron
May 25
As the world faces growing inequalities and environmental destruction, members of the working class have been abandoned by their representatives and attacked by governments. |
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Rick Salutin
May 21
It turns out that the collapse of the Palestinian dream of their own state -- which Israel used its power to obliterate -- leaves Palestinians not desolated but reinvigorated. |
