For The Real News Network, I spoke this week with Regan Boychuk of Reclaim Alberta about three recent audits of the Alberta Energy Regulator (AER).
As Regan explains, these devastating audits have exposed the AER as a broken regulator which routinely ignores Alberta law, is rife with undisclosed conflicts of interest and has been captured by Big Oil: Continue Reading ›
For The Real News, I speak with Marie-Claude Lacroix, two-row wampum liaison of Kanienkehaka Traditional Council, about the inadequacy of the Quebec government’s apology for systemic discrimination against indigenous peoples: Continue Reading ›
For The Real News Network, I spoke on the day after Canada’s election with Nora Loreto and Yves Engler about the prospect that a Liberal minority government will be obliged to pursue a more progressive agenda:
For The Real News, I spoke on Election Day to indigenous lawyer and activist Pam Palmater about the failure of the Trudeau government to keep its promises to First Nations and the possibility that the election would result in a government that is more respectful of indigenous rights:
The Center for Israel and Jewish Affairs (CIJA) is one of Canada’s most active and influential lobby groups. Continue Reading ›
In 2014, the Canadian polling firm EKOS asked respondents whether they agreed with the following proposition:
If the current patterns of stagnation among all except those at the very top continue, I would not be surprised to see the emergence of violent class conflicts.
EKOS found that 57% of Canadians endorsed that view. Continue Reading ›
The Green Party of Canada declares that it “begins with the basic premise that all life on the planet is interconnected.”
Yet, the Greens’ newly released electoral platform, consisting of eighty-two pages, says remarkably little about Canada’s relationship with the rest of humanity. Continue Reading ›
