The NDP's main and most urgent request is that the government start taking practical steps to put its emergency fiscal measures into action immediately.

After the immediate health emergency ends, government will need to step up with an ambitious, longer-term reconstruction program, centred on the lasting expansion of public services.

Most Canadian workers do not have paid sick leave, and those who benefit from such leave are disproportionately in the upper income category.

For seven decades, Connaught Labs performed brilliantly on the national and international stage, contributing to medical breakthroughs and developing affordable treatments and vaccines.

In 2009, when H1N1 attacked Canada, it was Indigenous people, particularly those in the North, who paid the highest price.

Trudeau's lasting legacy must not be his desire to advance women's rights. His legacy must be that he truly succeeded in advancing women's rights and gender equality.

A healthy populace with regular access to affordable health care is the best defence against epidemics like the COVID-19 outbreak.

In the name of "we can't afford it," ordinary citizens in the U.S. and Canada have been cheated out of the services they need to live healthy lives.

While the Broadcasting and Telecommunications Legislative Review panel made some positive suggestions, it also made recommendations that could undermine media independence and free speech.

The protracted presidential election campaign now underway in the U.S. underscores a number of fundamental differences between our two countries.

Laura Trethewey's lively book pitches human-scale stories as portals into world-sized issues, but the stories don't cohere.

Jason Kenney is leading a militant and official backlash against Indigenous resistance, introducing a law imposing harsh sanctions on protesters who interfere with "critical economic infrastructure."

The solidarity blockades may indicate a political tipping point in the struggle against extractivism and climate change. But corporate media and their paid pundits don't get it.

If protests awaken citizens and prod governments to take appropriate remedial action for abuse and neglect against Indigenous peoples, economic damage may come to be regarded by many as justifiable.

For some federal politicians, the crisis engendered by the Wet'suwet'en hereditary chiefs' refusal to allow a natural gas pipeline through their territory is also an opportunity.

The federal and B.C. governments are willfully flouting the law of Canada for a project that makes no economic sense whatsoever.

The rail blockades in solidarity with Wet'suwet'en land defenders could be a learning moment for Extinction Rebellion and other social justice movements.

American citizens should, at least, be forewarned when politicians and commentators tell bald-faced lies about Canada, especially about our health-care system.

"Don't cry on the shoulder of the man that stole their land," says one activist. Land defenders gather at minister's office after police extend the exclusion zone around the Unist'ot'en checkpoint.

Wet'suwet'en land defenders are facing many of the same risks and patterns experienced by environmental human rights defenders in Latin America and around the world.

The new heritage minister and the government have lost the first round of the debate over extending broadcast regulations to include the internet.

The world will likely still need some Alberta bitumen -- to repair the roads on which all those electric vehicles will go whizzing around.

As Greta Thunberg warns, our home is on fire. But politicians and industry keep expanding fossil fuel development, trying to cash in before markets fall in the face of alternatives and climate chaos.

The "Five Eyes" nations, including Canada, are looking to weaken encryption protocols that keep our digital information safe.

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.