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Balanced budget painted Saskatchewan into a corner
While it is a running joke that we have been living in the month of March for the past year, Premier Scott Moe’s comments on the upcoming budget seemed almost…
Fast Facts: Trade-offs in Health and Home Care create higher COVID-19 risks for vulnerable Manitobans
What exactly is the logic behind sending Home Care workers to do shifts in personal care homes during the COVID-19 pandemic? The point of Home Care is to assist people…
An anti-populist election for a populist moment
Distaste for Trump’s handling of the pandemic may nudge Biden into the White House, but the Democrats are unprepared to meet America’s social and political upheavals. Illustration by Remie Geoffroi…
U.S. Empire, Trumped
How U.S. foreign policy changed, and stayed the same, over Trump’s first presidency President Donald J. Trump was joined at the White House on September 15 by Israeli Prime Minister…
Young voters may yet save America
The 2020 presidential election as “last stand” for the boomer generation “Only the young, only the young can run,” sings Taylor Swift on her political anthem released in early 2020….
The Safe Third Country Agreement must end
Much is at stake in Canada’s appeal of a court ruling against a harmful refugee pact with the United States Photo by Francis Mariani (Flickr Creative Commons) For the most part, Canadians…
Breaking through Big Oil’s “regime of obstruction”
An interview with William Carroll about Canada’s fossil fuel power elite—its networks, public and private support, and climate denialism—as exposed and examined in his important new anthology for the Corporate…
A just recovery
The pandemic is a call for personal and collective change Illustration by Michael DeForge By now we are long past the shock of COVID-19, the virus that shut down the…
A just industrial strategy
Canada’s auto sector revival will take more than wishful thinking. We need a plan. Photo by Metro Transit, Flickr Creative Commons Canada lacks a coherent strategy to guide the development…
Virus contained, inequality let loose
Vietnam won international praise for its response to COVID-19. But the country’s intensifying capitalist restructuring may leave its people sicker and more impoverished. Photo of a Vietnamese garment factory in…
COVID-19 has taken a high toll in Nepal, but it may also accelerate social and political change
Photo by Alma Ayon, Flickr Creative Commons In some ways, for the people of Nepal COVID-19 was just one more pandemic among others: poverty, structural injustices, inequality, environmental damage. Still,…
Where is the consent of the algorithmically policed?
The criminal justice system is exactly the wrong place for the recklessness and techno-solutionism glorified by Silicon Valley. In her 2012 book, Consent of the Networked, Rebecca MacKinnon noted that the…
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