Billionaires and the planet cannot coexist
Representative image of industrial emissions with an aircraft in the background. Photo by Mladen Borisov/Unsplash. A recent report by Oxfam finds that the C02 output of the average billionaire is…
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Global community condemns US blockade of Cuba for 30th time
Photo by Steward Cutler/Flickr On November 3, the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) voted overwhelmingly to condemn the US government’s economic, commercial, and financial blockade of Cuba. Of the 189…
Why isn’t Canadian media condemning Nazi collaborator Roman Shukhevych?
The Roman Shukhevych statue at the Ukrainian Youth Unity Complex in Edmonton. Photo courtesy CTV News. Last year, a statue in Edmonton honouring Roman Shukhevych, a Nazi collaborator and a…
Lula’s victory foretells challenges at home, integration regionally
Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva greets supporters, October 19, 2022. Photo by Ricardo Stuckert/Twitter. Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s victory in Brazil’s October 30 presidential vote is worth celebrating. Indeed,…
As climate change worsens, the Liberals are spending $300 billion on new warships
The Canadian Surface Combatant project will replace both the Iroquois-class destroyers and the Halifax-class multi-role patrol frigates. Image courtesy Public Services and Procurement Canada. At this point, we should be…
Human rights tribunal rules Indigenous compensation plan insufficient
Thousands take part in the Every Child Matters march in Toronto on July 1, 2021. Photo by Michael Swan/Flickr. On October 24, the Canadian Human Rights Tribunal (CHRT), the federal…
BC NDP shreds its credibility again with Appadurai disqualification
Climate and social justice advocate Anjali Appadurai was disqualified from running for the BC NDP leadership on October 19. Image courtesy Anjali For BC NDP Leader/Facebook. In British Columbia, the…
Haiti deserves respect, not another invasion
US Marines patrol the streets of Port-au-Prince, March 9, 2004. Photo from Wikimedia Commons. There is something astonishingly shameless about the way the global community treats Haiti. Its former colonizer,…
Double standards on full display with Western Sahara occupation
The world’s longest conveyor belt in Boucraa, a Moroccan controlled region of Western Sahara. Photo from Reddit. When it comes to Western Sahara, the West’s collective silence can be called…
Thomas Sankara remains a global icon
This file photograph shows Thomas Sankara as he reviews troops in a street of Ouagadougou, during celebrations of the second anniversary of the Burkina Faso’s revolution. Photo by Daniel Lane/AP.…
Canada voices approval of IMF austerity program in Zambia
Photo by Cliff Owen/IMF/Flickr On June 26, 2022, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau met with Zambian President Hakainde Hichilema. According to the prime minister’s office, the two leaders discussed the “close…
Cuba’s Families Code a bold step forward for LGBTQ+ rights in the hemisphere
On September 18, Cuban citizens abroad voted in a popular referendum on the country’s proposed Families Code, a comprehensive revamp of social policy that includes some of the world’s most…
Lester Pearson at the World Bank
Lester Pearson at Germany’s accession to NATO, 1955. Photo courtesy NATO. In August 1968, the World Bank assembled a team of “stature and experience” to study the impact of twenty…
Gustavo Petro’s environmental protection plans face pushback from extractive companies
Colombian President Gustavo Petro at his inauguration on August 7, 2022. Photo courtesy USAID/Flickr. The progressive Colombian government of Gustavo Petro is drafting legislation that, if enacted, will require mining…
The power of peasant farmers
A large farm growing a variety of foods in Vietnam. Photo by Dennis Jarvis/Wikimedia Commons. Tiny Engines of Abundance: A History of Peasant Productivity and Repression Jim Handy Fernwood, 2022…
When Queen Elizabeth helped overthrow Australia’s left-wing government
Queen Elizabeth II departing Australia in 1973, farewelled by then Prime Minister Gough Whitlam. Photo courtesy the National Archives of Australia. In Canada and throughout the Western world, the fêting…
Ten years after the Marikana massacre, we must recognize Canada’s role in empowering mining companies in South Africa
Mourners attend a vigil for the victims of the Marikana massacre. Photo by Andreas Georghiou/Flickr. On August 16, 2012, the South African Police Service (SAPS) opened fire on striking miners…
Degrowth is the only path to a sustainable future
Degrowth-Conference 2018 in Malmö, Sweden. Photo by Cindy Kohtala/Flickr. There is no time left. Entire regions of the Earth’s surface bake at regular intervals, killing thousands in brutal and now-routine…
Despite protests, Ecuador’s Guillermo Lasso embraces Canadian mining at the expense of Indigenous peoples
Leonidas Iza Salazar, President of Ecuador’s Indigenous umbrella organization CONAIE, during nationwide protests in June 2022. Photo by Nico Kingman/Amazon Frontlines. This June, Indigenous-led protests erupted across Ecuador in rejection…
Canada is complicit in the starvation of Afghanistan
School for street working children, Mazar-e-Shariff, Afghanistan. Photo from Flickr. Since the Biden administration stole $7 billion from the Afghan central bank in February 2022, the United Nations has reported…