Blog March 9
Bill Morneau. Photo: International Monetary Fund/flickr
We will get universal pharmacare only if Canadians mobilize for it as they did for medicare
Dennis Gruending | The Liberals are promising pharmacare but not a universal program. Let's look to the wisdom of medicare founders T.C. Douglas and Emmett Hall on how to proceed.
Blog March 9
Premier Rachel Notley speaks with well wishers in the Alberta Legislature Rotunda yesterday after her government’s Speech from the Throne. (Photo: David J. Climenhaga.)
Alberta's NDP borrowed more than export-cut threats from Peter Lougheed for throne speech
David J. Climenhaga | We can expect former Alberta Peter Lougheed's name to be invoked more than once by the NDP in the lead-up to the general election expected in the spring of 2019.
Columnists March 9
Photo: Michael Coghlan/flickr
Our society's double standards in the application of due process
Monia Mazigh | We're told citizens accused of wrongdoing in democracies are entitled to due process. But it seems ethnicity, religion and social status determine whether the same legal principles are applied to all.
News March 9
Photo: Leonid Mamchenkov/Flickr
Health Canada takes on sodium, but are Canadians hooked on salt?
Karl Nerenberg | Voluntary guidelines for reduced sodium in food have been a failure. The government is now working on better labelling. The real problem may be that we have become inured to massive quantities of salt
Blog March 8
Winter playground. Image: Benson Kua/Wikimedia Commons
No equality without universal child care
Martha Friendly, Susan Prentice, Morna Ballantyne | Without the publicly funded child care now commonplace in many countries, Canada lacks this essential pillar of support for women's equality.
Blog March 8
Image: Wikimedia Commons
Guns and the Hundredth Monkey effect
Penney Kome | If anti-gun wave "flips the house," new Democrat majority likely to impeach number 45.
Blog March 8
Yolanda Becerra Vega of the Organización Femenina Popular (OFP) in Colombia, KAIROS Women of Courage partner.
Be a feminist every day of the year
Rachel Warden | This year we are happy that it is finally acceptable (and even trendy) to be a feminist, but we urge Canadians and the Canadian government to fully embrace the challenge.
Blog March 8
Andrea Horwath. Photo: Ontario NDP/flickr
Andrea Horwath will be Ontario's next premier -- remember where you heard it first, Albertans
David J. Climenhaga | We Albertans have already seen this movie and, no matter what the Opposition claims, the ending's still pretty good.
News March 8
Photo: Mary Crandall/Flickr
We have to understand capitalism before we can challenge it
Ed Finn | A prolonged cessation of growth, without government bailouts, would eventually morph into capitalism's demise.
Blog March 8
Independent MLA Derek Fildebrandt (Photo: Screenshot of CBC’s broadcast of the news conference.)
Spectacular flame-out of Derek Fildebrandt continues to pick up speed
David J. Climenhaga | Derek Fildebrandt thinks he's starring in a movie. He doesn't seem to realize it's a comedy, a dark one that's going direct to video.
Podcast March 8
Saskatoon Night Skyline
Municipal victories: Rebuilding Canada's progressive future
Victoria Fenner | From the Press Progress Summit 2017, an exploration of how to build Canada’s progressive future at the most local of political levels – our cities and towns.
Podcast March 7
Susan Kucera, director of 'Living in the Future's Past' with host/narrator Jeff Bridges
Is it the end of nature? Director of 'Living in the Future's Past' says our choices can still influence the fate of the planet
David Peck | Director Susan Kucera shares some new insights with David Peck about the environmental crisis and reasons not to give up hope.