Entries from Byline Portal tagged with 'Canada'
Ontario First Nation Wins Cleaner Forest after 10 Years of Logging Blockade
by Anna Willow, Yes!, USA - On December 3, 2002, members of the Grassy Narrows First Nation blockaded the road used to haul logs out of the area. Ten years later, their persistence has paid off in the form of...
Canada’s Most Unwanted
by Jasmine Budak, The Walrus, Canada - With rising infertility rates and the availability of foreign infants declining, some 30,000 children in government care have a better shot at finding a family....
The Challenge of Teaching Empathy to Stop Bullying
by Kate Hammer, Globe and Mail, Canada - Early intervention and repetition, then, are essential. Empathy can be taught, but people under the age of 26 are especially prone to bully because their brains aren’t wired for impulse control, according...
Generation Nixed: Why Canada’s Youth Are Losing Hope for the Future
by Tavia Grant and Janet McFarland, Globe & Mail, Canada - Crippling debt to buy credentials no one wants. Low-paying, short-term jobs that put middle-class prosperity out of reach. And, for good measure, the prospect of a penurious retirement....
Marois Visits France to Seek Support for Sovereignty
by Sophie Cousineau, Globe & Mail, Canada - As Premier Pauline Marois starts her three-day official visit to Paris by meeting French President François Hollande, the Parti Québécois Leader hopes France will revert to its long-standing diplomatic position toward Quebec....
New Debate Looms over Sex-Selective Abortion Motion
by Kim Mackrael, Globe and Mail, Canada - A second abortion-related motion proposed by a backbench Conservative MP could trigger a new debate about the parameters of a woman’s right to choose in Canada....
Meet the 13-Year-Old Girl Taking on Bottled Water
by Maude Barlow, rabble, Canada - We should be encouraging the youth in our society to do exactly what Robyn is doing -- engaging in local politics, acting to protect the environment and questioning the world around her....
House Rules
by Susan Harada, The Walrus, Canada - The Green Party’s Elizabeth May went to Ottawa to champion environmental issues. Now the country’s hardest-working politician is out to rescue the democratic process....
Why I Help Addicts Shoot Up
by Meera Bai with John Stackhouse, Christian Week, USA - Constant humiliation makes the people I work with especially vulnerable, and vulnerable in almost every way: to violence, to exploitation, to false hope and finally to despair. When allowed into...
Where Are Canada’s Missing Native Women?
by Fawzia Sheikh, Inter Press Service - First Nations’ leaders are calling on the Canadian government to establish an independent commission of inquiry to investigate at least 582 missing and murdered indigenous women and girls – a wish which was...
Death, Suicide Rates among Inuit Kids Soar over Rest of Canada
by Helen Branswell, The Globe and Mail, Canada - “There’s no way to downplay the impact that suicide has on life here. And it’s a big priority of many people – including the [Nunavut] government and the Inuit organization NTI...
Landmark Case Raises ‘Weak and Unpersuasive, but Arguable, Grounds for Appeal’
by Sunny Dhillon, The Globe and Mail, Canada - Gloria Taylor is the only person in Canada who can legally seek physician-assisted suicide, but a lawyer who was involved in the landmark court case says he expects other terminally ill...
Meet the Canadian Billionaire Who’s Giving It All Away
by Tavia Grant, Globe & Mail, Canada - Mr. Skoll is the only Canadian among the 81 billionaires to sign The Giving Pledge in the two years since Bill Gates and Mr. Buffett called on the superrich to stop hoarding...
For Many Indians, the Land of Opportunity Is the Land They’re Going back To
by Stephanie Nolen, Globe & Mail, Canada - Canada has traditionally competed for India’s skilled migrants with Australia, Britain and the United States. But now there’s a new country in the mix, a destination with increasing appeal for young, educated...
Anti-Abortion Activists Laud Tory MP’s Bid to Revisit Rights-of-Unborn Law
by Gloria Galloway, Globe and Mail, Canada - The contentious issue of legalized abortion returns to the floor of the House of Commons on Thursday evening as MPs weigh in on the motion by Conservative MP Stephen Woodworth to establish...
Quebec’s Subsidized Child Care Pays for Itself
by Annie Urban, Care2, USA - Parent Central reported on the study and noted that for every dollar that the government of Quebec invests in subsidized day care, it wins back $1.05; the federal government also benefits through the receipt...
Our Lost and Found Memories of Vimy Ridge
by Jane Urquhart, Globe and Mail, Canada - Vimy, as far as I could remember, had received short shrift during my history teacher’s brief foray into the role of the British Expeditionary Force in the First World War....
On Internet Privacy, I'm with the Child Pornographers
by Margaret Wente, Globe and Mail, Canada - Why do I stand with the child pornographers here? Because I’m not convinced the police need new powers to root out online child molesters. Judging by the recent highly publicized busts of...
Tensions Flare over Vancouver-owned Mine in Oaxaca
by Dawn Paley, Vancouver Media Co-Op, Canada - “The social and political conflicts that have ended the lives of three people are due to the appearance of the mining company, without the consent of the people, and not to the...
To Die for: PPD in Hair Dye -- What We Don't Know Won't Kill Us or Will it?
by Melanie Vollick, Rabble, Canada - In the past 20 years, only 15 per cent of the 80,000 new chemicals that have been invented since the 1950s have been tested for health and safety, and none of them have been...
Grieving Parents Urge Quick Passage of Anti-Bullying Bill
by Karen Howlett, Globe and Mail, Canada - Jamie Hubley wanted to start a Rainbow Club at his high school to provide a safe haven for students who felt like outsiders. Instead, the openly gay Ottawa teen has become a...
New Program Women Speak Out Gives the Marginalized a Voice
by Catherine Porter, The Star, Canada - If you feel sorry for yourself, there’s a spirit spa in Parkdale you should go to. It’s in a long yellow room above the community centre for the poor, where ragged men drink...
Militarization of Canada Expanding Exponentially
by Lorraine Chisholm, rabble, Canada - Canada will spend $22 billion on its military forces in the current fiscal year. That represents a very rapid growth in expenditures over the past 20 years....
There *Are* Limits to Free Expression
by Erna Paris, Globe and Mail, Canada - The Supreme Court of Canada is currently pondering whether to jettison provisions in the Saskatchewan Human Rights Code that restrict free speech in the interests of protecting a vulnerable minority from publicly...
Montana Looks North for Health Care That Works
by Rebecca Leisher, Yes!, USA - A little over a decade ago he was busing Montana senior citizens to Canada to fill their prescriptions at reasonable prices—a way of protesting the American pharmaceutical industry. Now, Montana governor Brian Schweitzer is...
A Prairie Home Education: Alberta Brings Classrooms to the Country
by Kate Hammer, Globe and Mail, Canada - In this patchwork of farms, ranches and small towns, administrators are looking to computers to help them cope with soaring transportation costs, budget crunches and children stuck in transit for up to...
Canada and 9/11 Anniversary
by Zubeida Mustafa, Dawn, Pakistan - Although Americans have been overshadowed by the fallout of 9/11, the fact is that nothing is the same for Pakistanis either, whether at home or abroad. In some places, Muslims are actually experiencing racial...
Is the Environmental Movement Dying?
by Kira Vermond, The Globe and Mail, Canada - Who cares about the environment these days?...
The Earth's Water Crisis, Our Water Crisis
by Krystalline Kraus, rabble, Canada - Canada has been one of countries that has either blocked or failed to back motions on secure water rights. At the UN Commission on Human Rights in 2002, Canada was the only country to...
Lawyers and Sex Workers Await Fate of Prostitution Laws
by Tracey Tyler, Toronto Star, Canada - Lawyers for the federal and Ontario governments have urged the court to restore the legislation in the interests of deterring prostitution and the exploitation of women. Parliament passed the laws to stamp out...
Consent Ruling Sends a Welcome and Clear Message
by Elizabeth Sheehy, Vancouver Sun, Canada - Think about it: If men and women in their relationships honestly give permission for such conduct, then the criminal courts will never hear about it. Who will report it?...
Unhealthy Neighbourhoods Play Big Role in Obesity, Diabetes Epidemic
by Lisa Rochon, Globe and Mail, Canada - This is the new crisis of cities: Badly designed neighbourhoods are literally sapping people of their ability to live fully....
Chemo Drug Shortage Leaves Hospitals Scrambling
by Kelly Crowe and Melanie Glanz, CBC News, Canada - For weeks, hospitals and pharmacists across Canada and in the U.S. have struggled to cope with spot shortages for about five chemotherapy drugs....
The Canadian Election: Does it Matter to us?
by Natasha Lennard, War Room, USA - Our progressive neighbors to the north seem to be veering to the right -- sharply....
Calgary’s Mayor Draws the World’s Attention
by Chrystia Freeland, Calgary Herald, Canada - Many of us worry that the advances in technology in the subsequent 15 years have served mostly to alienate us further from our real-life neighbours as we retreat ever deeper into virtual communities...
Are Western States Failing the World’s Refugees?
by Olivia Ward, Toronto Star, Canada - As Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi vows to evacuate 6,200 refugees fleeing North African turmoil from the island of Lampedusa, hundreds more are headed for its shores in rickety boats. Meanwhile, refugee camps...
Embryo Ethics: Finding a Home for Canada’s Frozen 'Orphans'
by Sharon Kirkey, The Province, Canada - Embryo donation has been called the most humane answer to an sticky ethical situation: How to dispose of leftover embryos that are created by infertility treatments and then literally frozen in time?...
Canada’s Giants in Cambodia
by Ellie Dyer, Phnom Penh Post, Cambodia - “Asia is the future for all of us. Everybody knows why and everybody is adjusting their business practices accordingly."...
Canada Discovers Trickle-Up Economics
by Linda McQuaig, Toronto Star, Canada - “We can have democracy . . . or we can have great wealth concentrated in the hands of the few. We cannot have both.”...
We May Not Like Polygamy, but Decriminalization Makes Sense
by Marina Adshade, Globe & Mail, Canada - If monogamy is the best arrangement for those who can afford additional spouses, why does this institution need to be enshrined in the law?...
The Arctic: The New El Dorado
by Huguette Young, Americas Quarterly, USA - Just 50 years ago, the Arctic was one of the world’s most remote and inhospitable regions, largely populated by indigenous peoples who hunted musk-ox and caribou and supported themselves with fishing, much as...
Name Honour Killings to Stop the Violence
by Richelle Wiseman, Calgary Herald, Canada - We have to single out cultural practices which violate women's right to equality, without condemning entire cultural groups....
Vancouver Farmers Markets: A Global Reason to Eat Locally
by Shayna Bailey and Danielle Nierenberg, Vancouver Sun, Canada - Many of us know the value of eating food grown nearby -- and now groups are teaching African children to appreciate it, too....
‘Alternative Summits’ Embody a Grass-Roots Strategy for Change
by Antonia Zerbisias, The Star, Canada - Aiming to get the public interest — not the corporate interest — on the public agenda....
Toronto Police Get 'Sound Cannons' for G20
by Jennifer Yang, The Star, Canada - Riotous protesters marching at the G20 summit next month may be greeted with ear-splitting “sound cannons,” the latest Toronto police tool for quelling unruly crowds....
Why Women Were Shut Out of Canada’s Science-Star Search
by Elizabeth Church, Globe and Mail, Canada - Government-appointed panel of female academics identify factors that led to all-male recruitment....
Playing Politics with Dying Mothers
by Margaret Wente, The Globe and Mail, Canada - Aid groups aren’t the only ones playing politics with dying mothers. Western politicians just can’t help themselves. To hear them talk, maternal health boils down to contraception and abortion....
Is Colombia Free Enough for Canada?
by Linda Diebel, The Star, Canada - Human rights critics are sounding alarms over a trade agreement with Colombia now snaking through the Commons – with good reason. If Toronto Liberal Mario Silva is to be believed, the city...
Chile Looks To Canada’s Example Regarding Indigenous Rights
by Mira Galanova, Santiago Times, Chile - With discontent among Chile’s indigenous population simmering for centuries, Chile is looking to Canada for a solution....
The ABCs of Family Planning
by Dorothy Shaw, Globe and Mail, Canada - The ability to determine whether to become pregnant and how many children to have has long been recognized as a human right....
What Toronto Can Teach New York and London
by Chrystia Freeland, Financial Times, UK - Canada is the only G7 country to survive the financial crisis without a state bail-out for its financial sector....
Roma Children Perplex Local Educators
by Louise Brown, Toronto Star, Canada - They are Europe's Least Wanted – reviled for their unorthodox ways, hounded by white supremacists....
A Female Perspective on Mental Health
by Carol Goar, The Star, Canada - Ontarians are stepping forward to offer their thoughts on the groundbreaking 10-year mental health strategy unveiled by former provincial health minister David Caplan last summer....
Living With Disability—And Recession
by Jewelles Smith, Women's Media Center, USA - Seeking new employment, always a challenge for someone in my situation, is almost impossible during a recession....
Don't Get Sick!
by Gail Pellet, Truthout, USA - "We would never want to have a plan like the Canadians" is a comment I heard from an interviewee on NPR the other day. Sadly, this speaker has never visited Canada, because if they...
Lack of North American Leadership
by Laura Carlsen, Foreign Policy in Focus, USA - Times of crisis require bold leadership and innovative solutions. Crises demand the casting aside of old, failed paradigms and the mobilization of people to create new ones....
U.S. War on Drugs Is Killing Mexico
by Diane Francis, Huffington Post, USA - The Three Amigos Summit which just ended -- U.S., Canada and Mexico -- is the private gathering of North America's dysfunctional family. The level of good will and cooperation has been incredible, but...
Vancouver Considers Plan for Farms on Boulevards
by Kim Davis, Vancouver Sun, Canada - From the Victory gardens of the last century's two world wars to the community-garden movement started in the 1970s, urban agriculture has played an important role in the security of the food supply....
Tough Times Can Bring out Best in a Democracy
by Armine Yalnizyan, The Toronto Star, Canada - A lot of people are worrying about poverty these days, and for good reason. We're heading ill-prepared into stormy economic seas. In 1984, at the peak of the worst labour market upheaval...
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