Former MP Ethel Blondin-Andrew says Indigenous people have the know-how but lack resources to help mitigate climate change.

On Thursday, Jan. 21 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, Blondin-Andrew will join Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood in the year’s first Conversations event to look at how Indigenous-led conservation and stewardship across the country are creating jobs, strengthening food security and inspiring youth.

In conversation with Canada’s National Observer on Thursday evening, Mother Jones CEO Monika Bauerlein flagged a tangential result of the past four years of Donald Trump: a deluge of hard-hitting, gobsmacking investigative journalism, Luke Ottenhof writes.

“Canadians don’t like to hear it, and I don’t like to say it, but even under Donald Trump, the Americans did a better job at tackling the climate emergency over his four years than Canada did,” newly elected Green party Leader Annamie Paul said during a public conversation via Zoom on Thursday.

Annamie Paul, leader of the Green Party of Canada, will join Linda Solomon Wood in conversation on Nov. 12. Here's some background and context.

The host of Democracy Now! stated United States’ staggering pandemic numbers can be attributed to Trump’s “complete incompetence and malevolence.”

This Thursday, Nov. 5 at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT, we invite you to join Goodman and Canada’s National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood as they look ahead to the next four years and take the pulse of American democracy.

CNN’s chief national security correspondent Jim Sciutto says Canadians should brace for even more erratic foreign policy if Donald Trump returns to the White House in January.

“This experience of having a president so disruptive and evil has made Americans more interested in having a government that is good and boring,” Molly Jong-Fast said in an interview Tuesday night.

“If you told me I was going to draw cartoons for former Republicans, I would have thought you were smoking some weed or something!” the Canadian cartoonist told Canada's National Observer editor-in-chief Linda Solomon Wood on Thursday.

Richard Fadden, former director of the Canadian Security Intelligence Service, called for the national commission in a public conversation with Canada's National Observer on Thursday.

To celebrate five years of award-winning independent journalism, Canada’s National Observer is releasing an in-depth report on election disinformation, Digital Fractures: Disinformation, Democracy and the Media, and presenting a special six-part instalment of its Conversations series.

'Trump has now entirely and completely distanced himself from the rule of law,' national affairs columnist Sandy Garossino warns. And amidst a it's not just the White House at stake.

David Suzuki, Catherine McKenna, Tzeporah Berman, Bruce Lourie, Graham Saul, Noam Chomsky on the fork in the road: a conversation series broadly agreed on some of the principles for post-pandemic Canada. Invest in green energy that can replace fossil fuels. Electrify the supply and distribution of power. Don’t subsidize or bail out big gas and oil companies.

With a "responsibility to pay attention and speak," the First Nations Forward managing director shares her first-hand experiences inside the world's new pandemic epicenter — that's hitting Indigenous people's the hardest.