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A Lockheed Martin F-35 warplane. (Image: Ant Le Breton/Flickr)
Warplane purchase schedule on target, while water for First Nations could be delayed
Brent Patterson | The Canadian government's purchase of new warplanes is on an "aggressive" schedule, while its promise to end long-term boil water advisories could be delayed.
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Blame game hurts wildlife
David Suzuki | The role of any animal within its ecological niche is far more complicated than the single predator-prey interaction that culling purportedly tries to control.
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B.C. Liberal Leader Andrew Wilkinson on the campaign trail flanked by B.C. Liberal candidate Helen Poon (Image: Andrew Wilkinson/Twitter)
Alberta's bad economic ideas make their mark on the B.C. Liberals' election campaign
David J. Climenhaga | Andrew Wilkinson, leader of the right-wing B.C. Liberals, is campaigning on a promise to cut the provincial sales tax.
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New Brunswick Green Party Leader David Coon speaks at a climate action rally outside the office of premier Blaine Higgs in Fredericton, September 25. (Image: Photo by Joan Green​)
Throne speech signals Canada's support for new nuclear reactors as opposition builds
Susan O'Donnell | Given its legacy of toxic radioactive waste, nuclear energy would not be considered "clean technology" by most Canadians. However the nuclear industry has been working hard to scrub its image.
Podcast
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Direct action in defence of old-growth forest
Scott Neigh | Carole Tootill and Joshua Wright talk about the Fairy Creek blockades, which are defending some of the last big-tree, old-growth forest on Vancouver Island from clear-cut logging.
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Environmental leaders on post-COVID Canada: Greener future, or new climate denialism?
Robert Hackett | Interviews with five of Canada's environmentalist voices -- David Suzuki, Catherine McKenna, Graham Saul, Bruce Lourie and Tzeporah Berman -- on strategies and options for a green recovery.
Columnists
Photo of demonstrators at the Wescam HQ on September 28, 2020. Image: contributed photo
Canada has a war crimes problem
Matthew Behrens | Two new reports on Canadian weapons exports reveal that Canadian-based corporate entities are complicit in the commission of war crimes in Yemen, Turkey, Libya, Syria and Iraq.
Book Review
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Leanne Betasamosake Simpson's cure for white ladies
Shanese Steele | Simpson's new novel "Noopiming" is a healing journey of Indigenous futurism through poetry, song and storytelling.
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Prime Minister Trudeau giving a speech on September 22. Image: Justin Trudeau/Screenshot of Twitter video
Throne speech: Trudeau government signals important changes, but may buckle to demands of elites
Bruce Campbell | The Liberal government will need to be pushed towards transformative change by widespread political mobilization and a paradigm shift as occurred at the end of the Second World War.
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Canada is no longer calling the shots when it comes to equitable global access to the COVID-19 vaccine
Adam R. Houston, Srinivas Murthy | Justin Trudeau's assertion that "to eliminate the virus anywhere, we need to eliminate it everywhere" somehow doesn’t feel like the inspirational commitment to equitable access it once did.
Columnists
Ontario Premier Doug Ford gives a press briefing on September 23, 2020. Image: Doug Ford/Twitter
Doug Ford should take a serious shot at himself
Rick Salutin | Ford puts blame for the mess we're back into on individuals. But the difference between them and him is they didn't have the capacity to alleviate or screw up the lives of a whole province.
News
Photo of this week's speech from the throne. Image: Justin Trudeau/Facebook
Throne speech has much to offer the labour movement if promises come through, experts say
Chelsea Nash | The labour movement clearly has the ear of the Trudeau government, some observers say.
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