The time has come for Canada to take the new media environment made possible by the internet seriously, says new report from the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review Panel.

"A Planet to Win" argues that the activist left must popularize a new moral and political calculus, one aimed at building a world where all people can live a good life.

In Canada, the spirit of resentment and the need for scapegoats that fuel the populist right might not seem strong right now. But make no mistake, they are here, not too far below the surface.

"Canada is an occupation," says one activist. RCMP surveillance and arrests of Indigenous land defenders and allies have continued as resistance to the Coastal GasLink pipeline intensifies.

The start of a global coronavirus outbreak probably isn't the best moment for a high-risk ideological experiment in health-care management, but don't expect conservatives to care.

New edition includes episode cut from 1973 book about Campbell's assault by RCMP officers at the age of 14.

As the world's rich and powerful gather in Davos, it's business as usual for fossil fuel producers, despite the climate emergency.

Privatization has negatively affected both workers and patients. The work is demanding, unstable and low-paying, and staff turnover is high.

Platforms like Facebook and Twitter extract their users' labour for profit. The solution, says author Richard Seymour in his new book, is a social industry strike.

The emphasis on fundraising will hinder caucus candidates anxious mainly to raise their profiles nationally, or draw attention to pet issues.

That's the task that Catriona Sandilands and the 45 other contributors to "Rising Tides: Reflections for Climate Changing Times" have set for themselves. And it's no small challenge.

If we had political leaders willing to act with the urgency the scientific evidence shows is necessary, curbing climate breakdown would still be a challenge this late in the game, but we could do it.

Independent media is not inevitable. It takes your help. It takes you making a new year's resolution to support media democracy.

The SNC-Lavalin affair, which cast a shadow over 2019, highlighted the Trudeau government's ambiguity, if not outright double talk, on both democratic reform and Indigenous rights.

Climate change, the federal election, #MeToo, the rise of the right: our staff's favourite books from 2019 touch on all of these important issues and more.

It is hard to imagine a viable leader of any major party who could not campaign vigorously and convincingly in both official languages.

Had he not left the Conservative party in 2018, Bernier would be a prime candidate for the party leadership after Scheer's departure.

The Conservative party leader's resignation signals that in Canada, opposition to same-sex and reproductive rights is now an out-there, fringe position, well beyond the mainstream.

For the first time ever, NATO has acknowledged outer space as what it calls the "fifth domain" of warfare. The other warfare domains are land, air, sea and cyberspace.

In an incomprehensible attack on the foundations of an advanced society, the Kenney government has decided to slash funding to 21 post-secondary Alberta institutions.

Thirty years later, remembering the killings at L'École Polytechnique and what came next.

Big Telecom is fighting tooth and nail to reverse a landmark CRTC decision that already lowered internet prices in Canada. But we can still stop them.

Widespread privatization, shuttered health care facilities, and service cuts are all in Kenney's cards as Alberta's government breaks earlier promises on health care.

About 96 per cent of Canadians are now connected to the internet, but a digital divide still exists.

Children are especially vulnerable to climate disruption. But governments around the world are still putting the fossil fuel industry's interests first.

There's nothing like a good-natured rivalry to raise spirits during a government-inflicted recession. David Climenhaga bets Edmontonians can do a better job booing Jason Kenney than Calgarians.

The Liberals have abandoned any pretence to the idealistic and aspirational spirit of reform that -- at least rhetorically -- informed their first mandate.

Anti-Semitism doesn't go away but it waxes, wanes, and transforms. That's its power. It's a version of racism but with particular features, always capable of surprises.