CAN TWO GRANNIES BRING DOWN BIG OIL? Probably not. But they’re giving it their best shot.

WHO REALLY PROTECTS US? Who ensures that people don’t get hurt, that systems are fair and that as much as possible, people don’t get hurt?

YOUNG PEOPLE ARE SHOWING THE WAY. They are using powerful social media tools to build strong worldwide movements to protest government inaction on climate change.

CAN A ‘GREEN NEW DEAL’ DO IT AGAIN? Many progressives in the USA think it can. They believe a massive government program can re-make the USA the way the original New Deal did in the 1930s.

HOW CAN WE FIX IT? It’s a question that haunts us still. After 300 years of living together, relations between us and them (Settlers and the Indigenous) continue to be unsettled and unsettling. True, deep and lasting reconciliation continues to elude every attempt to achieve it. Yet men and women of good will keep trying.

MILLENNIALS TO BOOMERS: IT’S SO OVER. Millennials are #over waiting for you to fight climate change for us. Hundreds of young people gathered in Ottawa from February 14th to 18th to prove it.

GOOD NEWS IS NO NEWS. Not in 2019. So we don’t hear a lot about how good Medicare is. In fact, the truth that there is good news about Medicare will itself be news to a lot of Canadians.

PISSING OFF THE UNIONS DIDN’T HELP. But that wasn’t the only problem with the deal to bring the second Amazon headquarters (HQ2) to New York City.

UNIONS HAVE THE SUPREME COURT ON THEIR SIDE. The proof of that is set out in detail in Brave New World: Fundamental Labour Rights in the Charter Era, the latest major study from the Canadian Foundation for Labour Rights (CFLR).

SHIRLEY PECK BEAT THE ODDS. She and her union took on the Canadian military and won.