Pro-Palestine encampment on the grounds of McGill University, Montréal. Photo courtesy Ellen Gabriel/X. A trite observation: One of the striking aspects of the fuss about pro-Palestine campaigns on university campuses…
Cartoon of American industrialist Andrew Carnegie, 1900. Illustration by Udo J. Keppler. Image courtesy Library of Congress/Wikimedia Commons. The following is an excerpt from Law at Work: The Coercion and…
CUPE education workers and other supporters amass at Queen’s Park to protest after the Ontario government enacted the notwithstanding clause to legislate a contract on the union. Photo courtesy CUPE.…
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau at a campaign rally in Vancouver, November 18, 2019. Photo from Facebook. On September 20, Canadians voted to hold the line. While forty seats changed hands,…
A man walks beside a mural portraying a person wearing a gas mask, Milan, Italy. Photo from Shutterstock. I have lived in a number of cities in different countries: a…
When it comes to essential services, workers must continue to deliver them. On the other hand, capitalism sees the freedom of capitalists not to deliver essential services as sacrosanct. Photo…
Leo Panitch (1945-2020), Professor Emeritus at York University in Toronto. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. The numerous writings and comments spurred by Leo Panitch’s death have expressed shock, grief, gratitude and…
The 16,000-square-foot Pandemic Response Unit at Joseph Brant Hospital in Burlington, Ontario. The field hospital was built as a worsening wave of COVID-19 infections pushed the health care system to…
Huawei booth at the Mobile World Congress 2015 Barcelona. Photo by Kārlis Dambrāns/Flickr. One of the graver risks for big-time criminals is that investigators will be able to identify them…
A medical operations officer prepares test samples from the mobile laboratory parked at the Wyoming Public Health Laboratory in Cheyenne, Wyoming, May 4, 2020. Photo by Jacqueline Marshall/Flickr. “We are…
We are living in a pandemic. These are unprecedented times. Not to worry: our political leadership is taking this all very seriously. They will do everything necessary, we are told,…
SNC-Lavalin headquarters in Montréal. File photo courtesy of the Canadian Press. SNC-Lavalin got the deal it had been gunning for since 2016. By then it knew that the RCMP, embarrassed…
Photo by Jeangagnon Every now and again the sophisticated web of myths and fantasies that hides the brutality and ugliness of capitalism is ripped away by sleazy and rapacious actors.…
Photo by Dalson Chen In 1979, Canada’s postal union (CUPW) bargained and bargained with the employer. Eventually, having exhausted all possibilities, it made the decision, supported by a huge majority…
Secrecy World: Inside the Panama Papers Investigation of Illicit Money Networks and the Global Elite Jake Dernstein Henry Holt & Co., 2017 Every year, sometimes several times a year, the…
“If the soul is left in darkness, sins will be committed. The guilty one is not he who commits the sin, but he who creates the darkness.” — Monseigneur Bienvenu…
