Three years after Edward Snowden's eye-opening state surveillance revelations, it's time for the Communications Security Establishment and Canada's other spy agencies to come clean. The post Canada’s Surveillance Crisis: Spy…
David Korten argues that the current wave of opposition to profit-oriented trade agreements will force future deals to prioritize people, not transnational corporations. The post Trade Agreements Should Prioritize People,…
The late Muhammad Ali "was much bigger than boxing. He came, from the late 1960s onwards, to symbolise resistance to racism, militarism and inequality." The post Muhammad Ali rewrote the…
Internet law expert Michael Geist explains how Rogers Communications' recent transparency report "provides new insights into how much – or how little – Canadians know about when their personal information…
Brian Martin on how "activists could be more effective in targeting their campaigns" if major political events had been easy to predict. The post What if activists could more accurately…
Paul Roundy, a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, discusses El Niño's role in the Alberta wildfire. The post Paul Roundy: Why the effects of…
Our grandmothers showed us a bigger, better feminism with women’s rights, racial equity, and gender justice at its heart, writes award-winning journalist Dani McClain. The post This “new” feminism is…
Indigenous children in Canada are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, says a study released Tuesday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The…
Australia, which is "being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population", can learn from Canada's emerging efforts at reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples. The…
More tar sands pipelines means going in reverse on the climate action Canada needs to fulfill the Paris Agreement and its call to action on climate change. The post Canada…
London Mayor Boris Johnson and other leading Brits believe that, in the event of Brexit, it'd be easy for the UK to set up a proposed Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and…
The U.S. has a history of racial violence against blacks and indigenous peoples. Now is the time to follow the example shown by Canada and South Africa, and begin a…
Internet law expert Michael Geist explains how "Canada’s long road toward a national digital strategy may have come to an end with Budget 2016." The post Budget 2016: Is It…
Human rights activist and author Craig Murray wonders why, for the western corporate media, the Panama leak is all about Russian president Vladimir Putin. "Do not expect a genuine expose…
Around the world, movements led by women are challenging "growing corporate power, land grabs, economic injustice, and climate change, women's movements offer a paradigm shift," writes San Francisco-based photojournalist and…
Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump "clearly owe a debt to the US’s two biggest protest movements of recent years," Occupy and the Tea Party, respectively, argues Alfred Cardone,…
Environmentalist David Suzuki proposes a few awesome actions that would help ensure that "all Canadians have access to clean, safe water for generations to come." The post David Suzuki: World…
The 2016 federal budget delivered on poverty reduction, First Nations funding, but several of the Liberals' 2015 election promises were not addressed, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives. The…
This week, Internet and e-commerce law expert, Michael Geist, concluded his illuminating 50-day series on the "trouble with the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)" by presenting a compelling case against Canada…
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki sees change "in the air" as the infant Liberal government, labour leaders and other stakeholders reaffirm their commitment to the fight against climate change. The post…
