NATUASHISH, LABRADOR August 12, 2021 – Days after a human rights report slammed Canada for its treatment of the Innu, the Innu Nation sued the federal and provincial governments over the Muskrat Falls energy project affecting their ancestral lands. The suit, filed
VANCOUVER, B.C. – Canada’s first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation saw a national outpouring of grief and anger over indigenous residential schools, and the genocide of Canada’s aboriginal peoples. Now that the day’s drums are stilled, the joined voices of lament
By Greg Locke PETTY HARBOUR, Newfoundland – On a fish plant wharf in a small fishing village on the east coast of Newfoundland, a campaign stop by Conservative Party of Canada leader Pierre Poilievre went mostly unnoticed in the blur of national
BONAVISTA, Newfoundland – While there are massive music concerts and arts festivals all over the world, usually in urban areas, that attract thousands of people, often those in remote and out-of-the-way places offer a more engaging and immersive experience. The Bonavista Biennale
by GREG LOCKE Originally published November 11, 2016 ST JOHN’S, Newfoundland – I can’t do Remembrance Day anymore. Just don’t have it in me. I don’t mean it to be disrespectful. In fact, my respect is infinite. I have had relatives
Writes International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe: Piracy and ship hijackings have spawned a worrying boom in largely-unregulated security companies offering armed mercenaries to protect merchant ships plying dangerous waters. However, the perils of having freelance guns-for-hire roaming the high seas have been again
There are strange doings in Alberta, the Canadian province that’s often compared to America’s state of Texas. Alberta has been characterized by its Go-Get-‘Em attitude, cowboy hats, and an economy based on oil and gas extraction, especially the oil sands in its
Public debates and heated controversies over hydraulic fracturing have become a constant, currently including in South Africa, Europe and even the meatpacking district in New York. But it was a protest against fracking in eastern Canada that made world news this month: Five police vehicles were
In the perpetual debate about whether humans are good, greed scored another point. Researchers in Europe and North America invented a game in which players had to cooperate to receive both individual cash and a reward for achieving a public-good – the
Writes International Affairs analyst Jonathan Manthorpe in today’s column: Canada’s Prime Minister, Stephen Harper, does not come across as a man who is much concerned whether or not he has allies for his political stands. However, Harper may not welcome India’s Prime
By Brian Brennan Today is Persons Day in Canada. I was reminded of this, not by a story in the Canadian media – which by now has become blasé about this annual commemoration of women’s rights – but by an opinion column
Since 34 striking miners were shot and killed in Marikana in August last year, South African police have been in the spotlight. Facts and Opinions welcomes aboard Ruth Hopkins, a senior journalist with the Wits Justice Project in Johannesburg, South Africa, to
International Affairs columnist Jonathan Manthorpe writes today: The hermit kingdom of North Korea is in the grip of an epidemic of addiction to the highly addictive and damaging drug methamphetamine, that the authoritarian regime of Kim Jong-un appears powerless to control. A new report
By Deborah Jones A commentary that accompanies a new report on Iraq’s war dead is more poignant than the statistics cited. The study links nearly half a million “unexpected” deaths in Iraq to the American-led invasion, between 2003 and 2011. Most of the deaths
They’re called zombies – but their nature is molecular, not Hollywood Human. Their presence is worldwide. And now new research suggests they’re far more frightening than any horror fantasy. Author Chris Wood writes in his Natural Security column today: In Alberta rivers
