Capitalism

08/08/25
Author: 
Rachel Gilmore
Workers install a sign reading ‘Alligator Alcatraz’ at the entrance to a new migrant detention facility in Florida on July 3, 2025. Photo by Rebecca Blackwell, the Associated Press.

Aug. 8, 2025

Carney’s government awarded GardaWorld millions in contracts and isn’t ruling out more.

A Canadian company is providing the muscle for a new Florida detention centre dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz” — and the Canadian government isn’t ruling out working with the security giant in the future.

13/07/25
Author: 
Sam Gindin
‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

July 13, 2025 

‘An Offer You Can’t Refuse’: Trump Sends Canada a Wake-up Call

An all-too predictable pattern has emerged in US-Canada relations. US President Donald Trump makes Canada ‘an offer it can’t refuse’. What follows is a national gnashing of teeth, flag-waving, businesses and politicians going patriotic. The Canadian government then caves, lamenting we had ‘no choice’.

10/07/25
Author: 
Erick Villagomez
Bigger and even bigger: Approved transformation of a Commercial Drive hub adds storeys to this 2024 version, and goes far beyond a 2015 citizens’ plan. Artist rendering via Crombie REIT/Westbank Corp.

July 10, 2025

Loosened restraints mean owning and flipping land, not building on it, is the real financial game.

29/06/25
Author: 
Cristen Hemingway Jaynes, Edited by Chris McDermott
Activists from Rise and Resist, Truth Tuesdays and Extinction Rebellion gathered in the public space in front of Fox Headquarters in Manhattan to protest the network's ongoing propagation of dangerous climate lies, as part of Earth Week on April 19, 2022. Erik McGregor / LightRocket via Getty Images

June 23, 2025

Unchecked climate misinformation has been turning crisis into catastrophe, according to a new report from the International Panel on the Information Environment (IPIE).

24/06/25
Author: 
The Breach
Carney CEO of Canada

6-minute video summarizes an unfolding nightmare for many Canadians and immigrants/refugees. Relief at keeping Poilievre from becoming PM is revealed as an illusion.

    -- Gene McGuckin

Jun. 19, 2025

Mark Carney’s first 100 days a blitz of pro-corporate, Trump-friendly moves

 

Carney has seized on Trump’s tariff crisis to push through a pro-corporate agenda that attacks Indigenous peoples, workers, and the environment

Now, it’s up to social movements to respond as quickly.

10/06/25
Author: 
Andrew Nikiforuk
The server mills that run AI need vast amounts of energy and water. You can expect higher monthly utility bills. Photo via Shutterstock.

Jun. 10, 2025

The energy appetite of data centres is boundless and ruinous. But Alberta and BC are eager to cater.

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