Capitalism

July 8, 2020 

Canada has now been under COVID-19 restrictions for three months, and many provinces are starting to open up again, although the virus is not under control. Canada is not yet out of the first wave and is certainly not ready to deal with the inevitable second wave. The Liberal government has acted too little and too late, but living next door to US’s Trump-caused disaster, it doesn’t look so bad.

June 30, 2020

9-11 minutes

Jun 17, 2020

Building a More Humane, Robust Way of Putting Food on the Table

Covid-19 outbreaks are now reaching far beyond the meatpacking industry. Migrant farmworkers in fruit orchards and vegetable fields, long the targets of intense exploitation, are seeing their health put in even greater jeopardy as they’re pushed to feed an increasingly voracious supply chain in pandemic-time.

Interesting points about Ottawa's conditions for making loans under this program, including spending no-nos, environmental tie-ins, and government acquisition of equity--not the "favourable rates and conditions" (in the words of one commenter) that corporate capitalism wants, I guess. Where will Trudeau and Morneau go on this? -  Gene McGuckin

June 17, 2020

Experts call for legislation and trade deals worldwide to encourage green recovery

Pandemics such as coronavirus are the result of humanity’s destruction of nature, according to leaders at the UN, WHO and WWF International, and the world has been ignoring this stark reality for decades.

 June 12, 2020

June 11, 2020