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Lois Ross
July 31
Understanding how food and agriculture can be part of climate justice is fundamental. Here are some summer reads that can help. |
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Rick Salutin
July 26
The European Enlightenment of the 1700s was a high point of religious toleration and G.E. Lessing, a German Protestant, one of its eminent voices. |
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Antonia Zerbisias, Broadsides
July 26
You have to wonder if federal Conservative leader Andrew Scheer wishes he could push Ontario's Doug Ford down and out of media range between now and the federal election in October. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 25
On Wednesday, Puerto Rico's governor Ricardo Rosselló announced in a pre-recorded video message that he would resign, effective Friday, August 2. This capped close to two weeks of non-stop protests. |
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Celia Chandler, Pro Bono
July 25
Should we impose limits on the use of space in publicly funded housing so that resources are used for the betterment of the most people possible? |
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Matthew Behrens
July 24
The crisis of Canada's toxic divide has come into sharp focus in Labrador, where the plans are to push the Muskrat Falls megadam to full operations by the fall. |
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Rick Salutin
July 23
Doug Ford has decreed that beginning in fall 2020, Ontario high school students will need to take four online courses to graduate. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 18
From his perch at the White House, Donald Trump hurls racist epithets via tweet while commanding armed agents to terrorize immigrants at the border and in communities from coast to coast. |
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Linda McQuaig
July 18
While new legislation will help protect a relatively small number of animals from sexual abuse, it provides no protection for animals living miserable lives trapped inside factory farms. |
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Rick Salutin
July 12
Forget the past. What youth are most serious about is the present, in which they're starting to drown. Urgency may be the socialism of today. |
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Antonia Zerbisias, Broadsides
July 12
How fitting that a wrecking crew of conservatives met at the Calgary Stampede where they sported cowboy hats and jeans, flipped pancakes for the cameras and fumed about the federal carbon tax. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 11
The U.S. women's soccer players now have a global platform to highlight the struggle for women's pay equality and justice. |
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Bill Blaikie
July 11
A reference to the NDP having removed "socialism" from the preamble to its constitution at the 2013 NDP convention has had surprising longevity -- given that it is not true. |
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Rick Salutin
July 5
If you ask the young today what Canada means, they point overwhelmingly to the kind of challenging diversity that informs Canadian multiculturalism. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
July 4
Donald Trump is threatening Iran with "obliteration" as he visits and showers praise on North Korea's leader, Kim Jong Un, while attempting to deliver nuclear technology to Saudi Arabia. |
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Linda McQuaig
July 4
Justin Trudeau's climate package gives us a false sense that we can dramatically increase output from Alberta's tar sands without seriously imperiling the world, and ourselves. |
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Digital Freedom Update, Marie Aspiazu
July 2
The B.C. government has announced its plan to improve customer protections for cell phone users and it could result in much-needed, groundbreaking changes. |
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Rick Salutin
June 28
Populism is clearly the zeitgeist of our time. It's just a question of whose version. |
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Antonia Zerbisias, Broadsides
June 28
That timeworn joke about shuffling the deck chairs on the Titanic certainly applied this month when Ontario Premier Doug Ford kicked his A-team ministers below deck and into lesser cabinet positions. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
June 27
Until Monday, over 350 migrant children were jailed in filthy, unsafe conditions by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Clint, Texas. |
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Shelina Ali, Pro Bono
June 27
A dispute over the promotion of diversity is dividing the Law Society of Ontario, at a time when freedom of speech is seen as something that trumps equality rights. |
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Lois Ross
June 26
Since 2011 groups of Prairie farmers have been working to have the courts recognize that the Conservatives' dismantling of the Wheat Board was illegal and has cost farmers billions in income. |
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Brent Patterson
June 26
Disruptive actions are needed to stop the Trans Mountain pipeline which represents a continuation of colonial violence and an acceleration of climate breakdown. |
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Thomas Ponniah
June 25
We are beginning to build a form of knowledge that amalgamates numerous perspectives rather than leaning on Newtonian science alone -- and this is an initial step towards a new global civilization. |
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Rick Salutin
June 21
Justin must thank God for Doug. What else has he got? He's the last neoliberal standing and he's not running on it, he's burdened by it. |
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Jim Stanford
June 21
A new report from the Conference Board of Canada presents some estimates of the economic, fiscal and social benefits of public education programs. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
June 20
The real-world impacts of slavery were front and centre in Washington, D.C., this week, as hearings and public gatherings convened to address long-overdue racial and economic justice. |
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Duncan Cameron
June 18
Jagmeet Singh laid out the NDP vision for Canada at the Ontario NDP convention in Hamilton on June 16, and in it the NDP leader addressed a host of issues troubling Canadians. |
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Broadsides, Antonia Zerbisias
June 14
Conservative leader Andrew Scheer may be on show. But he's not the man -- or men -- orchestrating the moves of the Conservatives. |
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Rick Salutin
June 13
Do not be overly deferential to definitions -- they are always in flux, always contested. |
