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It's an absurd notion that we are adding oil to the fire of populism, harming democracy, somehow capitulating to the “flaky, easily flustered” PC crowd, or turning off moderates who will inevitably jump into the arms of white supremacy if denied the right to listen to Steve Bannon’s hateful rhetoric, writes columnist Toula Drimonis.
"The war in Yemen and in Syria, in which Saudi Arabia plays a role, has created a refugee crisis around the world that is having national repercussions here," says Marie Lamensch, project coordinator at the Montreal Institute for Genocide and Human Rights Studies (MIGS) at Concordia University.
In response to Brazil's election of a wildly neo-fascist president, CBC News is glowing about new opportunities for Canadian mining companies in devastating the Amazon.
A proportional voting system favours voters. It ensures that just about every single vote counts for something: either support for a particular party, or support for a local representative, or both, writes columnist Warren Bell.
As other major countries develop plans to ban gasoline vehicles and increase sales of electric cars, it can be hard just to find an electric car in B.C.
In the face of possible and widespread disruption to our integrated North American economy, we have protected more than $2-billion a day in cross-border trade and tariff-free access for more than 70 percent of Canadian exports, writes Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland, defending the new United States Mexico Canada Agreement.
Climate change isn’t just about starving polar bears or melting ice, writes Sheila Watt-Cloutier. It is about human rights, human health, food security, poverty, loss of traditional knowledge, and global insecurity as traditional ways of life that are lost to glacier melt, coastal erosion, permafrost melt, rising seas, extreme drought, floods and violent weather.
