What happened to Assange will happen to the rest of us
Fifty weeks in prison for violating his bail: Julian Assange in January 2020 in a police van on the way to London’s maximum security Belmarsh prison. Photo: Dominic Lipinski/Press Association…
Warrior Up! Autumn Peltier alarms an awakening world
Autumn Peltier at Wiikwemkoong Unceded Reserve, Manitoulin Island. Photo by Linda Roy. – by Bruce Mason – Standing in the international spotlight, Canada’s Autumn Peltier is throwing water in the…
BC needs to protect health freedom
– by Naida Geisler – In 1984, like-minded Canadians came together and incorporated Health Action Network Society, widely known as HANS. For 36 years, HANS has educated and advocated for…
Sea Shepherd’s declaration of media war against BC seal hunt
– by Rod Marining – In the middle of what is presently called “The 6th Extinction”, the DFO, our Ministry of Fisheries and a few westcoast First Nations individuals and…
Surviving cancer against all odds
– by Michael Abel – Health Canada is in the process of updating regulatory frameworks governing natural health products (NHPs). According to the Natural Health Products Protection Association, current regulations…
Climate action and conservation go together
SCIENCE MATTERS by David Suzuki We live on a changing planet. Unnaturally rapid global warming is altering everything, including lands and waters. Evidence shows we’ve already emitted enough greenhouse gases…
COP25 Madrid delays real climate action
– by Peter Carter – There is now, at long last, agreement that the world is in a planetary climate emergency. COP25, in moving from Santiago, Chile, to Madrid, Spain,…
A stiff sentence: redacting Julian Assange from the record
– by Geoff Olson – I was recently commissioned to write an article on arts and technology for a Canadian literary journal. It ballooned into a 5,000 word piece…
Bells for Peace: an idea whose time has come
Individuals, families, city mayors and officials, and clergy from all faiths are encouraged to join the 2020 “Bells for Peace” campaign to unite the world for Peace. On August 6,…
Now that the Queen is our largest cannabis dealer, how are things?
– by Shawn P. Buckley – I have been a criminal defence attorney for 25 years and have witnessed the Crown and the courts relentlessly punish persons caught with cannabis….