Modern buildings tend to take electricity and air conditioning for granted. They often have glass façades and windows that can’t be opened. And when the power goes out for days in the middle of a heatwave, as the Houston area experienced in July 2024 after Hurricane Beryl, these buildings can become unbearable.
Yet, for millennia, civilizations knew how to shelter humans in hot and dry climates.
Policymakers in both the U.S. and Europe are undertaking increasingly brazen acts of escalation in Ukraine.
Designed to bring Russia to the breaking point.
If you’re not thinking about the end of the world by now, you’re either braindead or stuck in some remote corner of the world, totally removed from access to news.
Earlier this month we came closer to a nuclear conflict between the U.S. and Russia than at any time since the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962.
There is a tendency in Canada to overlook the fact that Indigenous peoples are overwhelmingly working class.
Today is the National Day for Truth and Reconciliation, a time not only to reflect on the genocide committed by the Canadian state against Indigenous peoples but also to think critically about the work of reconciliation in the present and future.
Right across North America, sky high insurance rates are straining affordable housing providers and the millions who depend on them for shelter, while pushing new housing developments and retrofits out of reach.
