Capitalism

Sept. 7, 2026

Bek MacIntosh helped rally her Alberta town to kill a megaproject. The wider fight, she vows, is ‘just getting started.’

The first thing that Bek MacIntosh, a 42-year-old business owner and mother of three, wants Albertans to know is this: it is possible for a community to stop a $10-billion hyperscale data centre dead in its tracks.

Even when the local and provincial governments have different plans.

Aug. 25, 2026

We dodged a bad deal. Now the PM needs to take these steps to signal where Canadians really stand.

While it is a good thing that Prime Minister Mark Carney ultimately refused to sign an agreement with the United States, it is important not to mythologize that decision.

Jul. 2, 2026

Israel’s ongoing genocide is the fascists’ blueprint for the world they seek to construct

Gaza has long been a warning of a new world order, now it is a blueprint—a testing ground, genocide laboratory, space of exception. The smaller of the two Palestinian territories has exposed how the limits of permissible bloodshed are tested, refined, and exported into broader global practice.

“To be honest, there aren’t really good data on the cost of climate change,” co-author Andy Hira said, something he attributed to “willful ignorance” among policy-makers reluctant to link fossil fuel production to the costs it helps create.

Aug. 19, 2026

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Jun. 26, 2026

It’s the end of growth as we know it

Economic growth is generally understood as a process that delivers a material betterment of living standards over time. But growth had two other virtues, neither of which has until now received much attention. Both will be sorely missed now that meaningful growth has ended.

Jun. 19, 2026

CPPIB is financing four LNG terminals — and may risk even more

Jun. 15, 2026

Data centres gobble vast capital, land, water and energy while forcing locals to endure ‘heat islands.’ Who voted for this?

“While technological successes are celebrated, the social fabric is progressively eroded, as if by a silent virus.” — Pope Leo XIV

Jun. 9. 2026