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    How not to protect the lives of sex trade workers

    Blog | Friday, 11 Jul 2014
    The ruling from the Supreme Court of Canada was pretty clear in the Bedford case. The laws were preventing women (and men) in the business of selling sex from being unacceptably vulnerable to...

    Northern Gateway will help degrade environment

    Blog | Thursday, 19 Jun 2014
    Imagine your favourite lake — the one on which you have a cottage or fish for walleye. Now imagine it is going to be acidified for 40 years by a giant industrial project. Or imagine your favourite...

    Seas of Trouble

    Blog | Tuesday, 03 Jun 2014
    “Ad mare usque ad mare”—from sea to sea. So goes the motto emblazoned on Canada’s coat of arms. But with some significant exceptions, Canadians probably don’t see Canada as a maritime nation....

    The Real Issue with the so-called "Fair Elections Act"

    Blog | Wednesday, 16 Apr 2014
    With all the talk about the Conservatives’ so-called “Fair Elections Act,” my mind keeps coming back to what Elizabeth May has said right from the start:“The crisis in Canadian democracy is not that...

    Passenger rail in Canada is in crisis

    Blog | Monday, 07 Apr 2014
    There has been a lot of attention of late to what moves on Canada’s rails. Train derailments, disasters such as Lac-Mégantic and near-disasters, such as the railcars loaded with toxic diluents that...

    Finance, Budgets And Shuffles

    Blog | Thursday, 03 Apr 2014
    In the last few weeks, there were a few shake-ups on the Canadian political scene. Allison Redford resigned as Premier of Alberta, the Supreme Court ruled that Stephen Harper’s new Quebec appointee...

    For Canadian youth, the future isn't what it used to be

    Blog | Monday, 24 Mar 2014
    “Education is the point at which we decide whether we love the world enough to assume responsibility for it, and by the same token save it from that ruin which except for renewal, except for the...