David Suzuki: Cutting through polluted public discourse
David Suzuki argues for civilized and fact-based public discourse on contradictory claims such as the Kinder Morgan’s controversial Trans Mountain pipeline is in Canada's national interest, and that...
View ArticleHow the Toronto van attack may spur cases of PTSD
The Toronto van attack, which left 10 people dead, "is likely to bring on a variety of feelings among those affected — people who witnessed the event, the first responders who provided care for victims...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: Kinder Morgan pipeline controversy proves need to shift course
Fir the sake of the environment, indigenous rights, and the future, renowned environmentalist David Suzuki urges us to push back against Texas-based Kinder Morgan's obsolete Trans Mountain pipeline...
View ArticleOntario budget a deficit-funded election platform for Premier Kathleen...
With its eye on the crucial June election, Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne's Liberal government has created a deficit-funded election budget proposing social policy expansions, investments, and...
View ArticleAlberta’s shameful pipeline politics ignores First Nations
Alberta Premier Rachel Notley's fight against British Columbia's efforts to stop the Kinder Morgan Trans Mountain pipeline expansion project ignores the pipeline's negative impact on First Nations and...
View ArticleThe Facebook-Cambridge Analytica scandal highlights the problem of...
Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica's scandalous harvesting and use of Facebook user data highlights the urgent need for robust public debate on the emerging problem of “surveillance capitalism” in...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: Lessons from Cape Town’s water crisis
World Water Day 2018 and Cape Town’s unprecedented water crisis reminds us to get serious about water crises related to climate change, population growth, waste, and mismanagement, says David Suzuki....
View ArticleHow to ensure more women run for public office
The barriers facing Canadian women seeking public office include wages that are lower than men's, child caring responsibilities, lack of campaign finance, Canada's masculine political culture, racism,...
View ArticleIt’s time to take our charities to the cleaners
The Oxfam sexual exploitation scandal signals the arrival of the moment for an honest public conversation about charities' role in society, the white saviour mentality, gender relations, charity...
View ArticleWhy is a quarter of Canada’s prison population Indigenous?
The recent decision by an all-white jury to acquit Gerald Stanley, the killer of Colten Boushie calls on us all to confront systematic racism and demand reforms to Canada's justice system, which "works...
View ArticleWhy Black Panther’s Wakanda Is the Black Utopia We’ve Been Waiting For
Wakanda, the advanced fictional East African nation in Marvel Studios' Black Panther film, is the the Black utopia imagined by the African diaspora and its allies since the trans-Atlantic slave trade....
View ArticleTrump may have emboldened hate in Canada, but it was already here
While many Canadians often associate the continuing rise in white supremacist hate in Canada to US President Donald Trump's divisive rhetoric, the right-wing extremist movement was already "alive and...
View ArticleBC’s oil and gas industry regulator withheld fracking data
BC’s Oil and Gas Commission (OGC) withheld information confirming that fossil fuel industry fracking operations could contaminate surface waters and groundwater sources, and absolved companies of the...
View ArticleThe FCC’s plan to repeal net neutrality threatens democracy everywhere
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai's proposed plan to dismantle net neutrality threatens democracy and the free exchange of ideas and information via the Internet. Even if the...
View ArticleA continuum of unabated violence: Remembering the massacre at École...
In 1982, the late NDP MP Margaret Mitchell was laughed down by her fellow MPs when she stood in the House of Commons and presented evidence showing that one in 10 men battered their wives in Canada. In...
View ArticleMissing and murdered Indigenous women inquiry: We must listen and act
Canada is a signatory to nearly a dozen international legal instruments upholding human dignity and the rights of Indigenous women. But the agreements have yet to influence the current analysis of...
View ArticleDavid Suzuki: Corporate influence inflames political cynicism
Even though elected politicians, especially those who end up holding cabinet positions, often prioritize corporate interests over those of their electors, David Suzuki still encourages us to overcome...
View ArticleCanada’s international trade agreements should prioritize women’s rights
For the Trudeau government’s ambitious feminist international assistance policy to succeed, Canada's trade agreements should champion women’s leadership, human rights, and gender equality. The post...
View ArticleQuebec’s niqab ban uses women’s bodies to bolster right-wing extremism
Quebec’s recent passage of Bill 62, which bans the wearing of the niqab in Quebec for people seeking access to public services, appeases the political demands of the ultra-right in the province, argues...
View ArticleAnti-semitism, racism and other old white supremacist prejudices die hard
Anti-semitism, racism and other prejudices are on the rise in most established democracies. Still, silencing white supremacists on the Internet is counterproductive. It would only lead to more...
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