Blaine Higgs, the Premier of New Brunswick since 2018, has recently found himself at the centre of multiple controversies. These include but are not limited to his attacks on the LGBTQ community, the status of French language, limitations on abortion access, and a halt on land acknowledgments. His positions on many of these issues are hardly […]
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Many things continue to carry the stench of imperialism, but none do so better than the British royal family, despite seemingly being limited to purely ceremonial roles. However, behind the ceremony, the Crown has real powers in Canada and Britain. On May 6, Canada gets a new head of state, Charles III. Canada’s governments, armed […]
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For thousands of years Pacific salmon, in their bounty, provided plentiful food for the people of the coast. Many described themselves as “Salmon People.” After living in the ocean for several years, the salmon return to their rivers of birth to swim upstream to the gravel beds to spawn and die. Along the way, overcoming […]
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Doug McCallum was defeated as Surrey Mayor, losing to former colleague Brenda Locke. Locke has promised to reverse the establishment of a separate Surrey police force, which will add further burden Surrey’s budget. Neither the RCMP nor Surrey Police is the answer, what is needed is democratic control over the police. Locke on other issues […]
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Gas prices have soared around the world, adding to inflation that is hitting workers’ living standards. Vancouver, like its overinflated housing market, has Canada’s highest gas prices. The price of gas in Vancouver rose from $1.60 a litre in December 2021 to $2 a litre in March and over $2.30 in May. In most of […]
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After six years of BC’s public health emergency due to poison drugs things are much worse. The health emergency was declared following 474 deaths in 2015, yet in 2021 there were at least 2,232 drug fatalities. In contrast, there were 1,522 COVID deaths for all of 2021. After six years deaths are nearly five times […]
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Paramedics face crises everyday as a basic part of their job. In British Columbia, they are also facing entirely avoidable crises of understaffing, low pay, and burnout. All of this was cruelly exposed in the summer heat dome, with soaring distress calls, long waits for ambulances and unnecessary deaths. It wasn’t always this way. BC’s […]
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The city of Surrey is the second largest in British Columbia, with nearly 600,000 mostly working-class residents. It is home to families from Canada and dozens of other countries and is host to some of the largest multi-ethnic celebrations in Canada, including the massive annual Vaisakhi parade of up to half a million people, a […]
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Malcolm X said “You can’t have capitalism without racism.” Trudeau wants to tackle systemic racism with capitalism. In June 2020, Justin Trudeau promised action “very soon” on the systemic racism in Canada. In September, the government announced support for black entrepreneurs and business owners. While some Black business owners and aspiring owners may welcome this, […]
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The BC NDP’s decision to proceed with the Site C dam a few years ago was a slap in the face of every progressive climate policy that the party claimed to espouse. That was only the tip of the iceberg however, since not only was Site C an ideological betrayal, it did not make sense […]
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