Jul 31, 2020
What's in a name?: from 'Free the Children to 'WE'
"Free the Children" was earnest and urgent. "WE" is vague, self-absorbed verging on self-indulgent, and unthreatening to anything or anyone.
WE Charity
Jul 17, 2020
Justin Trudeau: not evil, but a fool
Trudeau had a clear conflict of interest in the WE scandal, but it amounts more to an embarrassment than an outrage.
Jul 17, 2020
Media focus ignores WE Charity's negative impact on young Canadians' understanding of global injustice
Yves Engler
A little-discussed reason the federal government funds NGOs is to co-opt internationalist minded young people into aligning with Canadian foreign policy.
Jul 16, 2020
WE's mixing of profit with charity should have raised red flags for the government
Karl Nerenberg
The government will try to tough it out, and hope a couple of apologies do the trick, even as more revelations about the deep involvement of the prime minister and his family with WE emerge.
Jul 15, 2020
What should we do with $900 million for Canada student service grants?
Chi Nguyen
The federal government has an opportunity to put more effective principles of community-ownership, youth empowerment, and intergenerational thinking in reshaping the Canada Student Service grant.
Jul 14, 2020
From us to WE: former British prime minister David Cameron's neoliberal 'big society' concept lives on
David J. Climenhaga
The persistence of the "big society" concept helps explain Justin Trudeau's preposterous claim the WE Charity was the only organization in Canada capable of running a nationwide program.
