In less than three years, Canada has to increase the amount of land and inland waters it protects by 60 per cent to meet a commitment under the United Nations…
Part 1 of 2 parts on the causes of war since the late nineteenth century. The fears about the rise of German industry proved correct. It was soon serious competition…
We all know that one person, they are either always late or always mentioning how there aren’t enough hours in the day. The human race developed the idea of time…
Jason Kenney, Ezra Levant, and an auditorium full of empty seats. Kenney, meanwhile, turned down k.d. lang’s offer of two free tickets to Calgary Pride over the Labour Day weekend.…
Bombardier execs are in hot water with Sweden’s National Anti-Corruption Unit over alleged bribes to win a $340 million (US) contract with Azerbaijan. Auditors of the World Bank’s Integrity unit…
In Boston. Have already run into Mark Whalberg playing a cranky rogue cop from Southie fighting giant robots. — Warren Kinsella (@kinsellawarren) August 25, 2017
Guest Post by Caregiver Melanie Anderson – thank you for sharing your wisdom and experience, Melanie!Being my husband’s primary caregiver, for much of the time, his only caregiver, has taken…
In Part 1, I discussed the murder of Emmett Till, the exoneration of his murderers, and the tactics used by the racists of 1955 Mississippi to try to discredit both…
For weeks the creepy Con Andrew Scheer has been tap dancing across Canada trying to convince Canadians that he's really a nice guy.Or as he likes to call himself Mr…
Earlier this week the UN rebuked the United States for recent displays of racism. Nserine Malick writes: A UN committee charged with tackling racism has issued an “early warning” over…
Here’s something you don’t see every day. Usually, such United Nations committees are preoccupied with violent hate in remote corners of the world. This is the first time in more…
You sure cannot tell President Donald Trump anything. He must have missed the opportunity to read Rudyard Kipling as a child or he would have known the futility of sending…
Alberta’s 2015 provincial election resulted in the election of 75 new MLAs in the 87 seat Legislative Assembly. More than two years after that historic election, a group of former…
Here is the list of the top 10 fiction and non-fiction titles sold in Edmonton for the week ended Aug. 20, 2017, compiled by Audreys Books and provided by the…
Illustration by Marina Djurdjevic At the Canadian Labour Congress (CLC) convention held in Toronto in May 2017, an emergency resolution in support of Palestinian prisoners’ Freedom and Dignity Hunger Strike…
Photo by Quebec Solidaire Last Winter, Québec’s electoral representation commission made a controversial decision to redraw the boundaries of the electoral map in a way that jeopardized the existence of…
CD approached the candidates running for the NDP leadership with what we felt were some of the most important questions facing both the party and the country. Here we present…
Photo by Cancillería del Ecuador Noam Chomsky has criticised the anti-fascist movement and argued its actions are wrong in principle and it is a “major gift to the right”. The…
The violence that accompanied recent white supremacist protest in Charlottesville, Virginia is merely the opening salvo in a larger conflict between those advocating fascism and those committed to human decency,…
Photo by Mark Dixon As white nationalism and the so-called “alt-Right” have gained prominence in the Trump era, a bipartisan reaction has coalesced to challenge these ideologies. But much of…
