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How not to protect the lives of sex trade workers
Blog | Friday, 11 Jul 2014The ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada was pretty clear in the Bedford case. The laws were preventing women (and men) in the business of selling sex from being unacceptably vulnerable to...
All together now: How we stop Enbridge’s pipelines and tankers
Blog | Sunday, 22 Jun 2014It came to me in response to a biased question from a Sun News reporter in Toronto. The question, playing into the warped world of Ezra Lavant, prompted me to explain what “protesters” might do to...
Northern Gateway will help degrade environment
Blog | Thursday, 19 Jun 2014Imagine your favourite lake — the one on which you have a cottage or fish for walleye. Now imagine it is going to be acidified for 40 years by a giant industrial project. Or imagine your favourite...
Seas of Trouble
Blog | Tuesday, 03 Jun 2014“Ad mare usque ad mare”—from sea to sea. So goes the motto emblazoned on Canada’s coat of arms. But with some significant exceptions, Canadians probably don’t see Canada as a maritime nation....
Getting Canada back on track: economic case for making rail infrastructure a priority
Blog | Sunday, 01 Jun 2014Transport Minister Lisa Raitt announced on May 12 that the federal government would be intervening to save VIA Rail’s Halifax-to-Montreal Oceanroute. Many breathed a sigh of relief. The Ocean line...
Elizabeth May’s First Term as a Green MP in Canada’s Parliament
Blog | Tuesday, 20 May 2014“We can be totally honest and speak from our hearts. When we feel even one thing is good we can point it out.” Elizabeth May became Canada’s first Green member of Parliament, for Saanich-Gulf Islands...
The Real Issue with the so-called "Fair Elections Act"
Blog | Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014With all the talk about the Conservatives’ so-called “Fair Elections Act,” my mind keeps coming back to what Elizabeth May has said right from the start:“The crisis in Canadian democracy is not that...
Passenger rail in Canada is in crisis
Blog | Monday, 07 Apr 2014There has been a lot of attention of late to what moves on Canada’s rails. Train derailments, disasters such as Lac-Mégantic and near-disasters, such as the railcars loaded with toxic diluents that...
Finance, Budgets And Shuffles
Blog | Thursday, 03 Apr 2014In the last few weeks, there were a few shake-ups on the Canadian political scene. Allison Redford resigned as Premier of Alberta, the Supreme Court ruled that Stephen Harper’s new Quebec appointee...
For Canadian youth, the future isn't what it used to be
Blog | Monday, 24 Mar 2014“Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the...