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Senator Ratna Omidvar. Image credit: Boris Baldinger/World Economic Forum/Flickr
Tackling systemic racism and colonialism in Canada's charities
Increasing Access to Justice, Sheldon Falk | 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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Kamloops residential school memorial, May 30th 2021. Image credit: GoToVan/Flickr
Indigenous sovereignty is long overdue
Karl Nerenberg | We have known for decades what it will take to rewrite the future history of Indigenous nations in Canada. When will any government get the courage to take the first step?
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Scottish government officials overlooking peatlands. Image credit: Scottish government/Flickr
For climate’s sake, save the peat!
David Suzuki | As with many ecosystems that keep the planet habitable for humans -- forests, wetlands, grasslands, oceans -- peatlands have been under attack by humans who have failed to comprehend their importance.
Podcast
Zoe Dodd and Keith McCrady. Image credit: used with permission
From epidemic to pandemic: rethinking health
Victoria Fenner, Resh Budhu | Episode four of the Courage My Friends podcast asks: 'What can Indigenous philosophies teach us about health and wellness?' With guests Zoë Dodd and Keith McCrady.
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rabble.ca graphic featuring Off the Hill panelists
Join Leah Gazan and Cindy Blackstock at tonight's Off the Hill politics panel
Kim Elliott | Truth and reconciliation, like thoughts and prayers, are empty without meaningful, concrete and ongoing actions.
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Helyeh Doutaghi (left) and Ashley Courchene (right). Image credit: Doutaghi and Courchene/used with permission.
The shared struggles of Muslim Canadians and Indigenous peoples
Helyeh Doutaghi, Ashley Courchene | The media cycles in which Islamophobic killings crowd out stories about Indigenous children's remains suggests competition among different groups of victims, despite shared root causes.
Columnists
Justin Trudeau and Boris Johnson. Image credit: Andrew Parsons/No 10 Downing Street/Flickr
The G7 was a failure on COVID-19 and a fiasco for the U.K.
Duncan Cameron | 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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Justin Trudeau landing in Brussels. Image credit: Justin Trudeau/Twitter.
A new NATO centre on climate and security in Canada will not lead to climate justice
Brent Patterson | To build peace, we need to end the war against nature and stop the killing of land and environmental defenders.
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at the G7 summit. Image credit: Justin Trudeau/Twitter
The G7's lacklustre response to the global climate crisis
Brent Patterson | The G7 summit communique falls short of the urgent action needed to confront the human rights and environmental crisis of climate change.
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Jason Kenney in the 2010 Calgary Stampede Parade, back when he was Member of Parliament for Calgary Midnapore. Image credit: 5of7/Flickr
In the name of the economy, Jason Kenney could push Alberta into another wave of COVID-19
David J. Climenhaga | Ottawa is going to have to try to find a way to implement a vaccine certificate that can be used to protect those us who have been abiding by the rules.
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RCMP on display at the Calgary Stampede. Image credit: Pikist.
To move forward, Canada must accept truth of its past
Gary Engler | Our country has glorified white male warrior, racist colonialism and participated in it at home and abroad. Our laws, our institutions, our foreign policy, our culture have all been affected by it.
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The X-Press Pearl before the Sri Lanka disaster. Image credit: Isuruhetti/Wikimedia Commons
The Sri Lanka shipping disaster and Canadian consumerism
Joyce Nelson | In mid-May, the X-Press Pearl container ship started leaking acid and caught fire while anchored off the coast of Sri Lanka. The fire destroyed much cargo, but plastic debris started washing ashore.
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