Non-corporate coverage
Once again a human rights group has determined that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to apartheid. Human Rights Watch is calling for governments around the world “to impose sanctions and … Read More
Once again a human rights group has determined that Israel’s treatment of Palestinians amounts to apartheid. Human Rights Watch is calling for governments around the world “to impose sanctions and … Read More
Canada has by far the worst G7 climate record and will remain the laggard until we start a managed phase out of the oilsands. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau knows they … Read More
On Wednesday afternoon, the House of Commons voted down a New Democratic motion to take a first step toward national pharmacare. The vote went 32 for the measure to 295 … Read More
Before COVID-19 even arrived in Canada, the BC Labour Heritage Centre did what it often does: mined its archives for moments in history when workers in the province would have … Read More
Canada currently has a minority government and there’s nothing unusual about that. We have had many minority governments in our history, especially during the six decades from 1960 to the … Read More
If you’re getting sick of the British (also the Canadian) monarchy, welcome to the club. The shenanigans of the royals might make for great television — whether as a dramatized … Read More
We in Canada, and in other rich countries, are intensely, almost obsessively, focused on the impact COVID-19 has had on us — an impact which has been disastrous for the … Read More
Last week, Uber Canada launched a campaign calling for the improved treatment of its own workers. It’s a rare thing for an employer to do, given that employers are usually … Read More
Jeremy Corbyn might have lost the last British election and then stepped down as leader of the Labour party, but he has not abandoned either politics or activism. Far from … Read More
Craig and Marc Kielburger, the two brothers who founded WE Charity and its associated businesses, have decided to play aggressive offence as they push back against the members of Parliament … Read More
My younger sister, 18, is in her first year of college studying marine navigation. She sees herself travelling the world one day, the captain of a cruise ship or similarly … Read More
To mark Black History Month the folks who make the televised Heritage Minutes produced a new one about jazz pianist Oscar Peterson, who was born in Montreal in 1925. Peterson, … Read More
Since the pandemic began, we’ve spent late nights and early mornings with a list of worries familiar to people the world over: which of our colleagues will end up in … Read More
Sex workers have won a preliminary motion in an ongoing legal challenge against the province of Ontario that will allow them to present anonymized affidavits in the case, an Ontario … Read More
