Dec. 30, 2021

A frothy year-end column on the future chances of democracy and fascism, in America and elsewhere

Let me close out 2021 with one of those perky looks into the future in two areas: democracy and fascism. In each, our vision of what’s coming down the track gets distorted by our tendency to visualize via the U.S.

Dec. 29, 2021

December 17, 2021  

The US military is famous for being the single largest consumer of petroleum products in the world and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its carbon emissions exceed those released by “more than 100 countries combined.”

Dec. 23, 2021

RCMP raids at Wet’suwet’en and Fairy Creek, and the silence of the federal party, are resurfacing old divisions among Canada’s New Democrats

Frustration is mounting among left-wing members of Canada’s New Democratic Party, who feel the party has lost its way.

In recent weeks members have publicly quit, others have circulated petitions and some have shared stories of what they perceive to be dirty tricks from a party leadership determined to ostracize them.

Dec. 24, 2021

Editor: This has subsequently been somewhat expanded: https://globalnews.ca/news/8468051/covid-omicron-lockdown-benefit-workers/

Dec. 20, 2021

Dec. 17, 2021

When the RCMP arrested two journalists on Wet’suwet’en territory in November, it set off a debate about journalistic ethics — which almost entirely missed the point

On Friday, Nov. 19, snow blanketed the ground as heavily armed RCMP officers descended upon a tiny house occupied by Wet’suwet’en land defenders in northwestern B.C. 

Dec. 16, 2021