Oct 20 2015
| On the campaign trail, the personality contrast between Trudeau and the two other main leaders was enough to push the new prime minister ahead.
Oct 19 2015
| Since a 2013 coup d'état, the Central African Republic has registered more than 6,000 dead, and more than one million refugees and displaced persons, in a war fed by corporate interests and weapons.
Oct 19 2015
| It's election day and, at last, hope that what has to happen if this country is to recapture its integrity is actually about to happen.
Oct 16 2015
| Post-election, creating change will be the critical task of all progressives -- take what we know is possible and use it to rebuild community, reclaim the commons and build a broad social movement.
Oct 16 2015
| When we were children, we were told that if we played with matches, we risked being burned. Playing with the fire of Islamophobia, Stephen Harper would do well to heed that warning.
Oct 16 2015
| Many moments stand out from one of Canada's longest election campaigns. Rick Salutin looks back at a few and ponders the possibility of a worst-case scenario after the election.
Oct 15 2015
| Not only has Canada's economy performed worse under Stephen Harper's leadership than under any other government in our post-war history, but things are getting worse, not better.
Oct 15 2015
| Let's vote for our collective self-interest: smartly and efficiently to elect as many Liberals, NDPers and Greens as possible on October 19.
Oct 15 2015
| "We are live at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas!" So opened the first Democratic presidential debate of the 2016 electoral season -- that's right, in a Las Vegas casino.
Oct 14 2015
| History suggests that trade globalization can have major negative aspects. It's a lesson Canada should keep in mind when weighing the risks and benefits of the Trans-Pacific Partnership.
Oct 14 2015
| It used to be the case folks thought laptops would become more and more like tablets. Now, though, Microsoft, Apple and Google seem to be betting on the opposite future.
Oct 13 2015
| Most Canadians have had enough of Harper -- a prime minister interested only in benefits for his party supporters -- who put his own interest in holding office ahead of the public interest.
Oct 13 2015
| Gender inequality doesn't just extend to wages and workplace discrimination: it also impacts on a woman's pension and benefits at work and as she transitions from the workplace to retirement.
Oct 9 2015
| Justin Trudeau has withstood a pummeling that wasted the two previous Liberal leaders so badly that each broke down publicly during their campaign. Trudeau survived and overcame.
Oct 8 2015
| Grace Lee Boggs died this week at the age of 100. She was not only a grassroots organizer, but a philosopher, a teacher and a revolutionary.
