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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.

January 14, 2021

January 11, 2021

“This Will Be Remembered As A Turning Point.”

While many breathed a collective sigh of relief when Trump’s social media bans were announced, Edward Snowden and other internet freedom advocates warned that the move sets a dangerous precedent.

 Jan 11, 2021

Jan 8, 2021

Mask mandate, faster exposure notifications and vaccine priority for teachers are among the requests to health officials from 12 union presidents

The New Westminster Teachers’ Union is adding its voice to a call for health officials to improve COVID-19 safety measures in Fraser Health schools and to put teachers on the priority list for vaccinations.

Jan 8, 2021

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. 

Jan. 8, 2021

The storming of the Capitol may just be a harbinger of things to come.

With the normalization of mass shootings in the United States it is more than understandable that members of Congress feared for their lives when they learned protestors had forced their way into the Capitol in unknown numbers and were roaming around at will.