The handful of supporters in the sparsely-populated courtroom came there to bear witness and stand in solidarity with an Indigenous Elder who had just been tried for a second time and was now awaiting the verdict.
The vast majority of Canadians want a national pharmacare program, but right-wing think tanks and corporate lobbyists are battling to obstruct it. It’s time to stand up to their bullying and implement universal pharmacare so everyone can get the treatment they need.
C-suite payrolls are so massive they account for at least 40% of some companies’ losses
JANUARY 2, 2020
OTTAWA — Canada’s 100 highest paid CEOs made 227 times more than the average worker made in 2018, surpassing all previous records, according to a new report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). That’s up from 197 times average worker pay in 2017.
This may be something the entire environmental movement should be campaigning about -- both because it's a logical anti-COVID strategy and because it would get us more quickly back to a place where we can mobilize against other onrushing eco-disasters. -- Gene McGuckin
8 Jan 2021
Pandemic expert urges a bold shift as highly infectious variant raises the stakes.
Canadians have a clear and urgent choice to make this month as two highly transmissible variants of COVID-19 now sweep across the globe.
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh says Trudeau's government has failed to list them as a terrorist organization
New Democratic Party Leader Jagmeet Singh is encouraging Canadians to sign a petition that would designate the "Proud Boys" group as a terrorist organization.
The federal NDP is calling on the Trudeau government to immediately ban and designate the Proud Boys as a terrorist organization.
Singh took to Twitter Thursday (Jan. 7) to share the petition, which he encourages Canadians to sign and share, too.
For many kids who grew up in the 1980s and 1990s, Star Trek was a big part of our childhoods. The series is filled with strange new worlds, futurist politics, and advanced technology that is almost indistinguishable from magic. Yet even as a child I knew the show was a work of science fiction. Warp speed, transporters, and phasers were all gadgets I could comprehend, but in my rational mind I knew they would never exist within my lifetime.
The Ontario Teachers’ Pension Plan closed out the year by buying a controlling interest in a fossil gas pipeline company in Italy, with an OTPP official claiming the deal is a “low- or zero-carbon” investment.
