In January 2017, Dr. David Kattenburg, a resident of Winnipeg, Manitoba whose parents were Holocaust survivors, filed a complaint with the Liquor Control Board of Ontario (LCBO). Dr. [...]
Recently, I had the opportunity to talk to Dr. David Suzuki in Vancouver about the state and future of the environmental movement. What Dr. Suzuki had to say is of primordial importance to us [...]
A few days ago, the French government announced that it will issue a moratorium on new oil and gas exploration licenses. At the same time, the Trudeau government announced not only that it will [...]
On The Real News, I talk with Adam Scott of Oil Change International about Big Oil’s lobbying for more tar sands pipelines. As Adam explains, in making the case for more pipelines, the [...]
On my recent trip to Vancouver for The Real News, I interviewed Charlene Aleck about the battle against Kinder Morgan’s proposed expansion of the TransMountain tar sands pipeline. Charlene [...]
In this report for The Real News Network, I speak to indigenous rights lawyer Eugene Kung about the protection of indigenous rights under the Canadian constitution: [...]
Canada’s Trudeau government has announced a massive increase in military spending on the pretext that America under Trump is withdrawing from world leadership. In this report for The Real [...]
In the past few weeks, signs have emerged of a realignment of political forces in Canada. These signs include the historic NDP-Green alliance in B.C., the surprise victory of Andrew Scheer in the [...]
(This op-ed originally appeared in Ricochet Media on May 8, 2017.) When I travelled to Ottawa for the Green Party of Canada’s biannual convention in August 2016, I didn’t know much about Andrew [...]
As 200,000 climate marchers gathered in the heart of Washington, I talked to Canadian activist and film-maker Avi Lewis about the Leap Manifesto and Justin Trudeau’s failure to live up to [...]
