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Year In Review 2017: Islamophobia rising
During a funeral oration for victims of last January’s Quebec City mosque massacre, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised that “we will rise from this darkness... -
Truth, reconciliation and mercury poisoning
Residential school survivor Marjorie Flowers has mixed feelings about Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s trip to Labrador Friday, November 24 to deliver the residential schools apology left out... -
Three hundred years later, another crisis at Oka
Among the many unresolved Indigenous land rights disputes facing a Trudeau government big on promises, one in a long history of Mohawk resistance is again... -
Sex assault lawsuits seek culture change in Canada’s military
A recently announced review of military uniforms, ceremonies, badges and drills - part of a new diversity strategy aimed at making a broad swath of... -
CSISs alternative facts universe
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS), Canadas spy agency, penned a marvellous multimedia love letter to itself with the release late last month of its... -
VICE’s Ben Makuch stands up for Canadian press freedom
While mainstream U.S. media outlets face an increasingly antagonistic Trump administration that's selling its own version of reality with "alternative facts," Canadian journalists are confronting... -
Jameel Jaffer lifts the shroud of secrecy surrounding American drone warfare
Following a U.S. election campaign dominated by questions of temperament and fitness to carry the nuclear football, the new President will also inherit one of... -
B.C. First Nations and environmental groups disappointed in Trudeau’s LNG decision
A Trudeau team that places great stock in images of cooperative collaboration and transparency was smarting last week. Dozens of young people turned their backs... -
Casualties of war on terror continue to be hounded by Canada’s spies
As the Trudeau government considers long-promised amendments to the Harper regime’s notorious C-51 “anti-terror” legislation, Canadians have been invited to participate in an online consultation... -
Casualties of war on terror continue to be hounded by Canada’s spies
As the Trudeau government considers long-promised amendments to the Harper regimes notorious C-51 anti-terror legislation, Canadians have been invited to participate in an online consultation... -
The Canadian who shocked the White House
The gushing coverage of last week’s Justin Trudeau-Barack Obama “bromance” in Washington, DC, had one former Canadian visitor to the White House scratching her head. ... -
First Nations health care in remote areas severely substandard
Last month, Norman Shewaybick trekked 17 days along more than 550 kilometres of treacherous ice roads from Thunder Bay to his Webequie home, hauling a... -
Bombs away in Iraq
Twenty-five years ago last week, some friends and I poured our blood on the executive office windows of Rexdale's Litton Systems, which manufactured guidance systems... -
Media look back at 25th anniversary of Gulf War Part 1 through feel-good lens
Twenty-five years ago this week, some friends and I poured our blood on the executive office windows of Rexdale’s Litton Systems, which manufactured guidance systems... -
How Justin Trudeau could help remake Middle East politics
It's like a scene out of George Bernard Shaw's anti-war play Major Barbara. The Liberals have tried to downplay the sale of military equipment (a...
