An all-to-familiar juxtaposition has arisen with the recent arrests of Indigenous land defenders and journalists by the RCMP. On the one hand, we have politicians like Justin Trudeau and John…
It is an action worthy of a third-world nation. You know, the kind run by an authoritarian who takes it as a personal affront whenever someone demonstrates against or writes…
Our political leaders have a deficient understanding of reconciliation. What they want to reconcile are the contradictory interests between Capital and Indigenous self-determination. Ultimately, our political leaders, embodied by the…
Assorted content to end your week. – Michael Bang Pedersen argues that the COVID pandemic offers a prime example of the importance of telling hard truths to the public –…
Politics Full story of SNC-Lavalin affair still to be told, Wilson-Raybould says in new book Social Sharing Facebook Twitter Email Reddit LinkedIn Pressed on campaign trail, Trudeau denies he left…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Tom Parkin calls out Jason Kenney’s defence of genocide and its architects in an attempt to keep his party’s white supremacist base…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Timothy Wilson reports on the emerging revelations of Enbridge’s paying to harass environmental activists. And Jeremy Appel offers the background facts as to…
Several hundred mostly maskless protesters packed the rural road in front of GraceLife Church southwest of Edmonton Sunday to protest against the closing last Wednesday of the Edmonton-area church by…
This and that for your Sunday reading. – Alexandre Tanzi highlights how the 1% in the U.S. made out like bandits even as the country suffered through a pandemic year…
Assorted content to end your week. – John Smith discusses the importance of recognizing and repairing the weaknesses in our social fabric which have been laid bare by the coronavirus…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Tenille Bonogoure writes about the human costs of Canada’s choice to respond to a deadly infectious disease with polite deference rather than a…
Anyone who still imagines the Trump Administration’s partly successful effort to get Canada to seize and extradite Meng Wanzhou to the land of chaos and COVID had anything to do…
Assorted content for your weekend reading. – Linda McQuaig discusses how the calamitous effect of COVID-19 shows the dangers of putting care in the hands of the corporate sector. And…
Share this article: At this point, we are all aware of what it means to defund the police. It simply means moving money and tasks away from police departments and…
This and that for your Tuesday reading. – The Globe and Mail’s editorial board is rightly aghast at Doug Ford’s choice to facilitate the spread of the coronavirus as a…
Miscellaneous material for your mid-week reading. – Paula Ethans points out how anti-maskers and other COVID cranks have cynically drawn on the language of progressive protest movements to exacerbate the…
As Saskatchewan voters consider our options in this month’s provincial election, Alberta’s UCP could hardly be more clear in offering reminders of the cost of putting reckless right-wingers in charge.…
Miscellaneous material to start your week. – Lauren Pelley discusses the importance of making it a habit to weak a mask to protect against the spread of COVID-19. And David…
#ACAB Mounties saying they're protecting hate speech and violent racists because those voices matter as much as anyone else. That's a load of BS. https://t.co/WzsTMKYaGj — Saskboy says #BlackLivesMatter (@saskboy)…
Sending Crisis Response Teams instead of Police will save lives
One of the responsibilities of the police that could be eliminated is the role of social work and responding to mental health crises. As we’ve seen far too often in…