COVID-19 is leaving refugees and asylum seekers trapped between borders
When countries close their borders to non-citizens, including to those fleeing persecution, what happens to those trapped in between?
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Concerns about food supply grows as pandemic crisis deepens
An open letter to the Prime Minister calling for immediate transformative change to Canada’s food, agriculture, and fisheries systems from an industrial to an agroecological model
Time to bail out Alberta workers, not billionaire oil company CEOs
The most effective way to support oilpatch workers and their families is not by giving their former employers government handouts, but by supporting workers directly.
Keeping our moral compass through the COVID-19 pandemic
In the case of public health, private rights simply do not trump the common good. And people's lives and well-being should never be reduced exclusively to the parameters of a cost-benefit analysis.
We tried social distancing and it brought us closer together
Our DNA as a culture is about kindness, courtesy and consideration
Don't let COVID-19 take down our clean tech sector
Canada needs a concerted effort to support the clean tech sector during the COVID-19 crisis or companies will go bankrupt or be so delayed in getting their technology to market that our competitive advantage could be lost.
From toilet paper to Elon Musk
A writer’s mental map of the milestones COVID-19 crossed in the past several weeks.
Yes, you should be wearing a mask when you go outside
It took months, but North American health authorities are finally recommending we cover our faces when we leave the house. And that mask can be homemade.
Shifting Gears: The Climate Protest Movement in the Age of Coronavirus
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic, Fridays for Future, the youth climate campaign, was seeing numbers of protesters decline and its calls for action falling short of its goals. Now, the movement is recalibrating its strategies to try to usher in the next phase of a global campaign.
Without widespread testing, we're just fighting this pandemic blindfolded
We cannot stop this pandemic if we don’t know who is infected with the coronavirus
Keeping coronavirus out of jail
Canada has a responsibility to keep inmates and detainees safe from the spread of coronavirus.
Let’s come out of COVID-19 with a new economy
Canada’s traditionally strong oil and gas sector will never return to its halcyon boom days of the early 2000s. We need to rebuild the economy we want: a cleaner, resilient one.
Message from an Indigenous mother to her three-year-old during COVID-19
“Will aunty die from the virus?” Andrea Landry's three-year-old daughter asked her one morning while they were playing quietly on the floor. Landry recognized her daughter's fear, and she recognized her own. She knew this pandemic was an invitation to feel complicated emotions, but also a time to look to traditional knowledge systems, to survive in the same way as her ancestors did.
Kenney’s billions for Keystone XL is ballast for a sinking ship
Albertans should be asking themselves why TC Energy Corp. needed the Alberta government’s help in the first place.
