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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. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
May 20
Israel has launched another of its horrific, periodic bombing campaigns against the embattled Gazans. The U.S. enables this by providing Israel with billions in aid and access to weapons. |
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Evelyn Lazare
May 20
Shots in arms are essential. So are lockdowns and stay-at-home orders. But it takes both to achieve herd immunity. Isn't it time we realized this? |
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Duncan Cameron
May 18
Caught up in their struggle to attain power, political parties are reacting to what they think matters for the next election campaign and ignoring issues that matter for the future of humanity. |
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Rick Salutin
May 14
Ford's re-election plan has been bracingly clear since he went full Build That Wall and told Justin to shut the airports. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
May 13
The January 6 insurrection was one way to try to overthrow democracy in the U.S. Now, a more sophisticated effort to subvert democracy is underway. |
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Duncan Cameron
May 11
The pandemic has revealed what historians have long pointed to: right-wing authoritarian governments damage the social fabric, leaving citizens with a diminished sense of well-being. |
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Rick Salutin
May 7
For those protesting masks and vaccines, it's always about freedom, revolving around noble, self-serving heroic individuals. |
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Mehdi Rizvi
May 7
To boost immigration levels, Canada has introduced a new one-time program for international graduates and temporary foreign workers in essential occupations. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
May 6
Organizers learned of the bones, which have been described as an "open secret" in the anthropology community, when trying to facilitate the Penn Museum's repatriation of skulls of enslaved people. |
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Linda McQuaig
May 6
To the surprise of many, U.S. President Joe Biden is making a daring bid to overturn much of the mean-spirited conservative economic agenda that's dominated America and the world since the 1980s. |
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Lois Ross
May 5
While the 2021 budget appears to favour agricultural climate change measures on the one hand, will federal regulatory reviews end up reducing climate action on the other? |
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Duncan Cameron
May 4
Today the ecological threat and widespread citizen action to protect the environment make outrageous levels of American military spending more difficult to sustain. |
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Rick Salutin
April 30
Ontario's new proposal for paid sick leave only covers a piddling three days directly. Then, if you're sick, you have to go the federal website, fill out the form, and wait awhile for some money. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
April 29
The U.S. is seeing a frightening legislative trend: the criminalization of protest. There are close to 100 anti-protest bills proposed nationwide in state legislatures. |
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Chuka Ejeckam
April 29
In a conversation about policy priorities, is economic benefit the most pertinent aspect of a transformative investment in child care? Or, does it harm the broader pursuit of justice and liberation? |
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Edward Hyland, Pro Bono
April 29
The patent waiver is intended to temporarily free COVID-19 vaccines from intellectual property restrictions that keep them expensive and beyond the reach of countries and people in need. |
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Rick Salutin
April 23
When is the right time to reverse the spread of inequality and the decline in services: long-term care, pharmacare, child care, university costs? It's any time, or the day before. |
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Lois Ross
April 23
Spring is a time to consider seeds -- to think about their link to safe and quality foods, and to the rights of farmers. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
April 22
Derek Chauvin is going to prison for George Floyd's murder largely due to the actions and testimony of bystanders. Let their courage inspire the national adoption of the duty of police to intervene. |
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Evelyn Lazare
April 20
The COVID-19 pandemic has emphasized the need for Canada-wide approaches to the health of the population. Unfortunately, this national approach is only aspirational at this time. |
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Matthew Behrens
April 19
While there has been plenty of awareness this year, there remains precious little government action on ending the scourge of male violence against women and children, both at home and globally. |
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Rick Salutin
April 16
Derek Chauvin's trial is basically symbolic. In fact "events" themselves are essentially symbolic, compared to the slow seismic causes moving underneath. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
April 15
Ending the war in Afghanistan should be a beginning, accompanied immediately by reparations to the Afghan people. |
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Linda McQuaig, Neil Brooks
April 13
This is not rocket science. Canada's wealthy are sitting on more wealth than ever before. The public supports a wealth tax. And the budget is next week. |
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Rick Salutin
April 9
Let's be clear on what refusing to protect essential workers with sick pay essentially means in the Ford lexicon: it means refusing to protect workers, period, with sick pay or anything else. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
April 8
Instead of selling weapons of war, the United States should make global public health the number 1 priority. It is by far the most effective way to enhance the country's national security. |
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Linda McQuaig
April 8
The pandemic has only increased the clout of the powerful drug industry, which largely controls access to COVID vaccines desperately needed by Canadians and others. |
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Rick Salutin
April 2
For those connected to animals, their death undoubtedly diminishes us. Anyone or anything that enhances our sense of the preciousness of being here, whatever/wherever this is, deserves mourning. |
