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Nov 20, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Nir Hagigi |Elliot Dillabough |Jon Milton |Katherine Scott
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible. Make a donation of $35 or more and receive The Monitor magazine for one full year and a donation receipt for the full amount of your gift. Canada’s response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 was an incredible show of compassion towards a nation facing an extraordinary threat to its livelihood and safety.
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Nov 12, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Jon Milton |Katherine Scott |Molly McCracken |Elliot Dillabough
Since 2021, a group known as Advance Regina has been running ad campaigns in the city of Regina, identifying elected officials as “leftist activists” and advocating for lower taxes and reduced government spending. Another group, Common Sense Regina, has campaigned against the current mayor and two sitting city councilors.
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Nov 8, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Jon Milton |Katherine Scott |Molly McCracken |Bruce Campbell
“We just witnessed the greatest political comeback in the history of the United States of America,” said incoming Vice-President JD Vance, standing alongside a triumphant incoming President Donald Trump, in front of a row of American flags, to announce a blowout election victory. “America has given us an unprecedented and powerful mandate,” said the president-elect. It certainly was a comeback.
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Nov 5, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Katherine Scott |Molly McCracken |Bruce Campbell |Simon Enoch
The Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives joins the rest of Canada in honouring the life and legacy of Murray Sinclair: Anishinaabe leader, jurist, senator, and head commissioner of Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission. Justice Sinclair, whose spirit name is Mizhana Gheezhik—The One Who Speaks of Pictures in the Sky—passed away on November 4, 2024 in Winnipeg at age 73.
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Aug 30, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Bruce Campbell |Gavin Fridell |Katherine Scott |Michael Bueckert
The Board accepted a request from the government to order more than 9,000 Teamsters members back to work at Canadian National Railway and Canadian Pacific Kansas City and to impose binding arbitration to produce a new contract.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Gavin Fridell |Katherine Scott |Michael Bueckert
As the world bears witness to a proliferation of worrying climate news, from record-breaking heat waves to hurricanes to forest fires, it also seems to see a parallel growth of “solutions”—few of which seem to be getting us where we need to go. There is no shortage of ideas and innovations, along with a rapid roll-out of new green technologies, even while the world’s carbon dioxide emissions continue to grow.
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Aug 28, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Katherine Scott |Michael Bueckert |Chloe Kemeni
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible. Make a donation of $35 or more and receive The Monitor magazine for one full year and a donation receipt for the full amount of your gift. Young people have been hit hard by unemployment this summer, according to July's labour force report.
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Jul 8, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Brandon Doucet |Trish Hennessy |Katherine Scott
Organized dentists’ associations are working hard to undermine the public insurance plan—it’s time the federal government tackle it head on As a dentist, and an open advocate for public dental care, I often speak to other dentists about the issue.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Katherine Scott |David Moscrop
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible. Make a donation of $35 or more and receive The Monitor magazine for one full year and a donation receipt for the full amount of your gift. The COVID-19 pandemic upended women’s economic gains, wiping out 35 years of progress in two short months.
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Jul 2, 2024 | 
monitormag.ca | Katherine Scott |Randy Robinson |Brandon Doucet |Trish Hennessy
Our content is fiercely open source and we never paywall our website. The support of our community makes this possible. Make a donation of $35 or more and receive The Monitor magazine for one full year and a donation receipt for the full amount of your gift. The COVID-19 pandemic that swept the globe in 2020 not only threatened people’s health but exposed and exacerbated entrenched inequalities. Women bore the brunt.
