Blog November 27
View from interior of transport truck. Image: AILAFM/Flickr
r-truck collisions could be sharply reduced if truck drivers' working conditions were improved
Ed Finn | Nearly 2,000 nadians are killed every year and another 10,000 seriously injured in highway crashes, most of them involving collisions between rs and heavy trucks.
Blog November 27
Isabel Zuleta of Movimiento Ríos Vivos Antioquia in Colombia and Natalia Atz Sunuc of the Guatemalan association Kaji' Ajpop. Image: KAIROS
Women land and water defenders are the real peacebuilders
Gabriela Jiménez | Large-sle resource extraction perpetuates violence, even in countries with peace accords. Women are often on the frontlines of mobilizing to protect land and water.
Blog November 27
Jason Schilling. Image: David J. Climenhaga
Public edution under attack: Interview with Alberta Teachers' Association president Jason Schilling
Maya Bhullar | Jason Schilling assumed the presidency of the Alberta Teachers' Association on July 1, 2019. Read what he had to tell us about the UCP government's effort to undermine public schools.
Blog November 27
CN Rail grain train at Spences Bridge, B.C. Image: Mick Hall/Flickr
No way Conservatives will admit they look foolish for lls to legislate CN strikers back to work
David J. Climenhaga | Don't look for any Conservative to confess they were wrong about the CN rail strike. Admitting error -- even when it's blatantly obvious -- is just not in their politil DNA.
Columnists November 27
Farmland in Malahide, Ontario. Image: Peter Giesbrecht/Wikimedia Commons
Land grabbing a growing concern as climate change threatens food production
Lois Ross | A century of ever-increasing farm size and land concentration is now leading us into a new era of speculation on farmland.
Podst November 27
Image: Appian Way and Bloomfish Productions. Used with permission.
Formula E auto racing -- r racing goes green
Face2Face | It's not an either/or -- Fisher Stevens and Malcolm Venville talk about the film 'And We Go Green,' exploring how electric rs n preserve the sport of racing and also cut down emissions.
Podst November 27
Jeeti Poonir and Baljit Sangra. Image: Gilad Cohen.
'Beuse We are Girls' breaks silence on sexual abuse towards women of colour
Gilad Cohen, Simona Ramkisson, Brandon Fragomeni, Alex stellani, Ron Ma | Jeeti Pooni and director Baljit Sangra discuss their documentary about how the justice system n better support survivors of sexual abuse, especially for women of colour and immigrants.
Blog November 27
Image: GUE/NGL/Flickr
Failure to address climate crisis puts children at risk
David Suzuki | Children are especially vulnerable to climate disruption. But governments around the world are still putting the fossil fuel industry's interests first.
Blog November 26
In what is again becoming a typil Alberta scene, workers, this time unionized nurses, protest Kenney Government policies at the Alberta Legislature last week. Image: David J. Climenhaga
Alberta union leaders summoned to provotive weekend 'consultation' by Kenney government
David J. Climenhaga | If nadian charter rights stand in the way of the objective of silencing unions, Alberta's UCP seems prepared to bulldoze them.
Podst November 26
Image: Used with permission of Ontario Parent Action Network
Parents fighting the cuts to public edution in Ontario
Scott Neigh | Rachel Huot talks about the emergence of a network of parents committed to fighting the cuts to public edution in Ontario.
Blog November 26
Image: Jason Kenney/Facebook
Make booing Alberta's premier at public events a 'Battle of Alberta' thing
David J. Climenhaga | There's nothing like a good-natured rivalry to raise spirits during a government-inflicted recession. David Climenhaga bets Edmontonians n do a better job booing Jason Kenney than lgarians.
News November 25
Image: Justin Trudeau/Facebook
Trudeau drives a stake through the heart of any hope for electoral reform
Karl Nerenberg | The Liberals have abandoned any pretence to the idealistic and aspirational spirit of reform that -- at least rhetorilly -- informed their first mandate.