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While their Islamophobic rhetoric isn’t new, the Coalition Avenir Québec is government now. What they promise to do should concern all Quebecers who cherish free expression, writes Nora Loreto.
The United Nations anti-racism committee is making it difficult for the federal and provincial governments to hide behind a court decision allowing continued construction of the Site C dam.
The CleanBC plan signified the start of a years-long, provincewide marathon. Here are three major checkpoints we’ll be keeping a close eye on until the end of 2019.
Among the reforms Ontario Progressive Conservative Premier Doug Ford has touted was shelving the Pay Transparency Act, brought in by Kathleen Wynne's former Liberal government and approved in the legislature. An NDP legislator examines the implications.
As a woman in politics, breaking glass ceilings isn’t even half the battle. All the shards left behind by that broken glass ceiling can be just another arsenal for those who already had plenty of weapons to keep us out of power.
Poverty and climate change are perhaps the most significant challenges to the sustainability of Canadian diets. Does Canada's Food Guide address those issues? Trevor Rous tackles the question.
The GM plant closure in Oshawa, Ont. presents opportunities to create a hub for post-carbon industry and workforce,write Peter Stoett and Scott Aquanno of the University of Ontario Institute of Technology.
A species goes extinct every day. We send clouds of toxic smoke into the sky, creating an opaque blanket of heat that blasts the ice caps. Louis Sobol writes that he never really felt he could do something about it until 2016, when he went to Mount Allison University and became acquainted with Divest MTA.
The hour is late and the odds against the world’s richest and most powerful industry are steep, but at least courts have not taken away our most powerful tool. Regan Boychuk puts the Supreme Court’s Redwater decision in context.
