The Indigenous people in Canada who suffered so greatly at residential schools have not waited for the Pope to come to their door. Instead, they have gone to his house, asking to receive an apology, writes Albert Dumont.Last week, Pope Francis apologized for the conduct of some members of the Catholic Church in Canada’s residential…Continue Reading
The head of Canada’s military justice system has revoked his appointment of a military police officer who faced sanctions three years ago for making sexual comments about three women at a Christmas policing function.The Canadian Armed Forces will review an internal military police process after a recent decision to rescind the appointment of a high-ranking…Continue Reading
In her first budget a year ago, Chrystia Freeland told Canadians that there was a risk of doing too little to secure the post-pandemic recovery. As the finance minister prepares to deliver her second financial plan later this week, there’s every expectation that she will continue to spend.Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Finance Chrystia Freeland…Continue Reading
Stephanie Cadieux, who represents Surrey South, is resigning her Surrey-area seat after 13 years at the legislature to become Canada’s first chief accessibility officer.Stephanie Cadieux, who represents Surrey South, is the first woman with a disability to serve in the legislature and in cabinet. (CBC)A member of the British Columbia Liberal caucus is resigning her…Continue Reading
UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change reveals “a litany of broken climate promises” by governments and corporations, accusing them of stoking global warming by clinging to harmful fossil fuels.UN report on climate crisis paints grim pictureThe world is on track to blow past a critical climate…Continue Reading
When it came out last week that the Federal Election Commission fined Hillary Clinton’s presidential campaign and the Democratic National Committee for misreporting political payments in 2016 that funded the explosive Steele dossier, the news attracted plenty of media attention. The penalties themselves, however, had nothing to do with the actual content, creation, or distribution…Continue Reading
Juliette Bryant was at a Cape Town cocktail lounge with a friend when an associate of Jeffrey Epstein approached her. “This guy is bothering me,” the woman, an American actress named Naja Hill, told them that night in September 2002. “Can I hang out with you guys?”Bryant, who had just turned 20, understood that women…Continue Reading
Alex Karpenko plays outside the train station every day.The 27-year-old musician’s ritual, ever since the war began, is to carefully make his way down to the public piano outside Lviv’s railway station. There, he plays off the thousands of Ukrainians fleeing their homes. People walk past him, rolling suitcases or carrying children. Some of them…Continue Reading
Scientists agree the universe is expanding. Scientists disagree how fast the universe is expanding.The argument over the Hubble Constant–the scientific law defining that expansion rate–is heating up. But this isn’t just some nerdy squabbling in the ballroom of whichever hotel is hosting the latest astrophysical symposium.No, our entire conception of how the universe works is…Continue Reading
For the first time since the passage of the 1965 Voting Rights Act, Southern state lawmakers can once again redesign election districts without federal oversight.That means several GOP-dominated legislatures can shape state and congressional voting maps without first seeking approval from the U.S. Department of Justice or the U.S. District Court of Washington, D.C. Without…Continue Reading
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