Columnists January 12
Aharon Appelfeld. Image: kellywritershouse/flickr
Aharon Appelfeld embraced the paradoxes of Jewish identity
Rick Salutin | Israeli novelist Aharon Appelfeld, the Israeli novelist, died last week at 85.
Columnists January 12
Martin Luther King Jr. and Mathew Ahmann in a crowd at March on Washington. Image: Rowland Scherman/Wikimedia Commons
Coalition honours Martin Luther King Jr., renewing Poor People's Campaign
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | A coalition has formed to organize poor people in the United States into what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called "a new and unsettling force" to fight poverty.
Columnists January 12
Protesters marching in Toronto against Islamophobia and Trump's ban on Muslims entering the U.S. Photo: J_P_D/flickr
Islamophobia continues to fester in wake of Quebec City mosque shooting
Monia Mazigh | On January 29, 2018, Canada will commemorate the first anniversary of the shocking murder of six Muslim men in a Quebec City mosque. What has been achieved in the fight against Islamophobia?
News January 12
Photo: Wikimedia
Moving forward by looking back, 1998
Karl Nerenberg | In 1998, it looked like Jean Chrétien and his Liberals could remain in power forever. With his response to the near loss of the 1995 referendum, however, Chrétien sowed the seeds of his party's demise
Podcast January 11
Image: George Lessard virtually taking a picture of Tim Hortons in Yellowknife
Coffee break with George: Minimum wage, Tim Hortons and cost of living in Canada's North
Victoria Fenner | George Lessard and Victoria Fenner talk about how residents of northern Canada survive on minimum wage (spoiler: Tim Hortons pays more than minimum wage in Yellowknife).
Blog January 10
Shopping cart facing the aisle of a grocery store. Photo: Brian Talbot/flickr
Consumer society no longer serves our needs
David Suzuki | How did "throw-away," "disposable" and "planned obsolescence" become part of product design and marketing? It was deliberate.
News January 10
Ahed Tamimi. Image: Haim Schwarczenberg/Wikimedia Commons.
Ahed Tamimi reminds Israel of the value of civil disobedience
Jonathan Cook | The 16-year-old Palestinian teenager has incensed right-wing Israeli politicians with her defiant dignity.
Blog January 10
The Calgary skyline in 2016 (Photo: Kevin Cappis, Wikimedia Commons).
'Blockbuster' job creation in Alberta leaves UCP in search of new talking points about 'job killing' carbon levy
David J. Climenhaga | You can probably count on the nattering nabobs of neoliberal negativity at the UCP to come up with a new reason that is clearly the NDP's fault to explain why the sky is falling.
Podcast January 9
Image Copyright: Miranda Bailey and The Film Arcade. Used with permission.
Who is the man behind the anti-vaxxer movement?
David Peck | Miranda Bailey talks to David Peck talk about her film The Pathological Optimist, and the anti-vaxxer movement's chief advocate Dr. Andrew Wakefield.
Blog January 9
Many retail food sector jobs pay only minimum wage. Image: Dennis Gruending
Business lobby alarmist on Ontario minimum wage
Dennis Gruending | The business lobby is using alarmist tactics to oppose a minimum wage hike in Ontario.
Blog January 9
Kathleen Wynne (Photo: David Climenhaga)
Tim Hortons brew-haha shows fast-food industry doesn't get PR, economics, or what Canadians think
David J. Climenhaga | Never mind the spin. The actual Bank of Canada note concluded that the benefits of increased minimum wages outweigh any depressant effect they may have on job creation.
Podcast January 9
Image: Modified from an image used with permission of the Vancouver Tenants Union.
Tenant organizing in Canada's most expensive city
Scott Neigh | Vancouver Tenants Union members Kell Gerlings and Neil Vokey talk about justice for tenants in an impossibly difficult city for renters.