MORGAN – Canada’s hospital system is ill-prepared for COVID-19 crisis
THE LIBERAL GOVERNMENT’S plan to use Canada’s “fiscal firepower” to help Canadian families and businesses weather the COVID-19 pandemic has been appropriately [Continue]
Other Voices
SUZUKI – Let’s come together in these physically distancing times
THESE ARE DIFFICULT TIMES, especially for people who lack safe shelter, food and other necessities — and for those on the front lines. Even though we must maintain physical [Continue]
TRAVIS – ‘Hundreds of hospital beds’ could disappear in an instant
THE WARNING SIGNS were there, but by Feb. 27, those signs were a little too frequent and it became apparent that it was time to suck it up and head to a hospital, never my [Continue]
IN THE LEDGE – ‘At this unique time, partisanship has left the building’
Statement by Premier John Horgan in Legislature on Monday, March 23, 2020: Hon. J. Horgan: I thank my colleagues for joining us here in what could only be described as an [Continue]
SUZUKI – If corporations have legal rights, why not rivers?
A POPULAR SIGN at climate marches reads, “System Change, Not Climate Change.” What does system change look like? Environmental crises such as climate disruption and [Continue]
SUZUKI – The woman who discovered global warming – in 1856
OUR BOOK Just Cool It!: The Climate Crisis and What We Can Do features a chapter on climate science history. We include discoveries by well-known scientific pioneers, from [Continue]
THE ROYALS – Want to help Harry and Meghan? Leave them alone
The principal issue is that Harry and his wife are not interested in, nor apparently have the resilience for, performing public duties PERSONAL AUTONOMY and the exercise of [Continue]
PIPELINE POLITICS – Wet’suwet’en protests throw us all into chaos
While the project is a win for the province, the country, the environment and B.C.’s First Nations, these hereditary chiefs don’t see it that way By BRIAN GIESBRECHT [Continue]
SUZUKI – Pipeline actions signal need for true reconciliation
ACTIONS BY AND IN SUPPORT of the Wet’suwet’en land defenders are as much about government failure to resolve issues around Indigenous rights and title as they are about [Continue]
POLITICS – Winnipeg mayor’s statue cleansing is a distortion of history
By GERRY BOWLER Frontier Centre for Public Policy “THE RED COATS we know, but who are those little black devils?” This was the question posed by a Métis prisoner after [Continue]
SUZUKI – Beyond Climate ventures to the heart of a rapidly heating B.C.
ISLAND SCALLOPS on Vancouver Island has relied on stable ocean conditions since 1989. But CEO Rob Saunders says those started changing a little over a decade ago. [Continue]
CONVERSATION – By calling survivors ‘heroes,’ we miss the full picture
By ANNIE ST. JOHN-STARK Thompson Rivers University WHEN DISASTER STRIKES — a hurricane, a terror attack, a landslide — we are quick to label the survivors as heroes. On [Continue]
POLITICS – Trudeau throwing away Canada’s future for a seat at UN table
IN 2014, THE SUPREME COURT of Canada issued a stunning decision with profound impact on the future development of our country. For more than a century, Indigenous title had [Continue]
BOWLER – Cancel culture stifles democratic dissent and discussion
THE CANCEL CULTURE has claimed another victim. Renowned poet George Elliott Clarke has backed out of giving the University of Regina’s Woodrow Lloyd Lecture over [Continue]
