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2 months ago | 
africasacountry.com | Benjamin Talton |Michael Bueckert |Christopher J. Lee
Amidst the slew of executive orders issued by US President Donald Trump—ranging from reinstating plastic straws, renaming the Gulf of Mexico, and proclaiming that only two genders exist—one, in particular, reverberated around braais, brandies-and-cokes, and bakkies from Brackenfell to Benoni: the executive order “Addressing Egregious Actions of the Republic of South Africa,” which included the policy that the “United States shall not provide aid or assistance to South Africa” and that the...
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Elizabeth Schmidt |Michael Bueckert |Christopher J. Lee
In June 2015, a young white man named Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. After accepting an invitation to pray with the parishioners, Roof drew a Glock .45-caliber handgun and began to shoot. Within minutes, he fired some 74 rounds—killing nine church members, including the pastor and a state senator.
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Sep 12, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Michael Bueckert |Christopher J. Lee
In June 2015, a young white man named Dylann Roof walked into the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, South Carolina. After accepting an invitation to pray with the parishioners, Roof drew a Glock .45-caliber handgun and began to shoot. Within minutes, he fired some 74 rounds—killing nine church members, including the pastor and a state senator.
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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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May 29, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Maya Wind |Jane Duncan |Michael Bueckert
The spectacular flight of capital is one of the most constant phenomena of decolonization. On June 23, 1987, the University of Houston (UH) became the first university in the American South to pass a divestment resolution to withdraw $6.4 million out of companies that profited from the economy of apartheid South Africa. To the general public, it must have seemed surprising that they took a stand against the apartheid regime.
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May 6, 2024 | 
cjpme.org | Michael Bueckert
This joint report provides recommendations to the Canadian government regarding the renewal of the federal Anti-Racism Strategy. It argues that Canada's strategy must address antisemitism, Islamophobia, and anti-Palestinian racism together hand-in-hand using an intersectional framework.
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Apr 9, 2024 | 
africasacountry.com | Jan Bornman |Michael Bueckert |Achille Mbembe
Dramatic scenes at the US-Mexico border in recent months have highlighted the surge in migration across the globe: from people fleeing wars to political instability and violence, poverty, and the pursuit of better social and economic conditions. Border officials in the US said they had more than 225,000 encounters with migrants at the border in December alone, the highest number in over two decades.
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Mar 18, 2024 | 
cjpme.org | Michael Bueckert
This evening’s vote by Parliament did not go nearly as far as we had hoped for, but is nonetheless a small step forward for ending Canadian complicity in Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza. By a vote of 204-117, Parliament endorsed concrete measures to bring an end to the violence, including an end to military exports to Israel. The motion was passed with the support of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Foreign Affairs Minister Mélanie Joly.
