What is the link between Irving Oil, Saudi arms and the war in Yemen?
“We have a sort of arms for oil arrangement,” says Anthony Fenton, PhD candidate at York University. “Buying oil from ...
Rural social justice motivates Bonavista’s mayor
“I remember the silence at the kitchen table” said John Norman, the mayor of Bonavista, Newfoundland, describing the cod fishery ...
Rural assemblies – A letter from New Brunswick’s future #4
June 28, 2040 (Campellton, NB) Dear New Brunswickers, The year is 2040, the province is New Brunswick, and the place ...
Maliseet First Nations launch “right to fish” lawsuit against federal government
The Madawaska Maliseet and Tobique First Nations in New Brunswick have filed a lawsuit against the federal government and Department ...
The Praxis Festival: permaculture and New Brunswick’s leave-no-trace agricultural movement
The Praxis Festival recently took place in Knowlesville, New Brunswick. Happening annually on the first weekend in June, the family-friendly ...
Koch-Oil, Part 3: The unspeakable contradiction: Jobs, environment and prosperity lost
No one yet recognizes the Koch-led US Big Oil plan to extract Saudi-like treasure from Canada’s boreal forests and to ...
Misplaced pride: open letter to the River of Pride group about ExxonMobil sponsorship
Moncton’s Pride Parade, an annual public event that offers visibility to the LGBTQ+ community, takes place every summer on Main ...
Koch-Oil, Part 2: Canada’s love-in with US Big Oil
In Canada, the governing corporate media and parties have had such a media-transmitted love-in with Big Oil that even Alberta’s ...
Will immigration policies put Canada on the right side of history?
Thursday’s World Refugee Day (June 20) was a global call to stand up for refugee rights. This month also marks ...
Koch-Oil, Part 1: Big lies and ecocide writ large in Canada
As we know, big lies can run free across borders with few joining the dots. For example, no media are ...