Capitalism

30/08/25
Author: 
Derek Seidman
Climate activists rally outside Bank of America Tower in Midtown Manhattan as part of the March to End Fossil Fuels on September 19, 2023. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

Aug. 25, 2025

Big banks across the world are substantially increasing their financing of the fossil fuel industry, including for the industry’s expansion during a time of intensifying climate crisis, all while pulling back from previously stated climate commitments.

29/08/25
Author: 
Isaac Phan Nay
Experts say growing inequality is the result of government policy choices, steep hikes in executive pay and gains for the top-earning one per cent. Image via Shutterstock.

Aug. 25, 2025

Canada’s income gap reached a record high this year. How did we get here?

The gap between Canada’s haves and have-nots has never been bigger.

23/08/25
Author: 
 Martin Hart-Landsberg
AI parrot

August 10, 2025  

Big tech companies continue to spend massive amounts of money building ever more powerful generative AI (artificial intelligence) systems and ever larger data centers to run them, all the while losing billions of dollars with no likely pathway to profitability. And while it remains to be seen how long the companies and their venture capital partners will keep the money taps open, popular dislike and distrust of big tech and its AI systems are rapidly growing.

08/08/25
Author: 
Rachel Gilmore
Workers install a sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at the entrance to a new migrant detention facility in Florida on July 3, 2025. Photo by Rebecca Blackwell, the Associated Press.

Aug. 8, 2025

Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

A Canadian company is providing the muscle for a new Florida detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — and the Canadian government isn’t ruling out working with the security giant in the future.

13/07/25
Author: 
Sam Gindin
‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

July 13, 2025 

‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The Canadian government then caves, lamenting we had ‘no choice’.

10/07/25
Author: 
Erick Villagomez
Bigger and even bigger: Approved transformation of a Commercial Drive hub adds storeys to this 2024 version, and goes far beyond a 2015 citizens’ plan. Artist rendering via Crombie REIT/Westbank Corp.

July 10, 2025

Loosened restraints mean owning and flipping land, not building on it, is the real financial game.

29/06/25
Author: 
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Edited by Chris McDermott
Activists from Rise and Resist, Truth Tuesdays and Extinction Rebellion gathered in the public space in front of Fox Headquarters in Manhattan to protest the network's ongoing propagation of dangerous climate lies, as part of Earth Week on April 19, 2022. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

June 23, 2025

Unchecked climate misinformation has been turning crisis into catastrophe, according to a new report from the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

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