Reading Time: 3 minutes Thoreau, Gandhi and King understood that going to jail was a reasonable price to pay for protest. Why don’t we accept that today?
Tag: Law
Just do the right thing – no matter what
Reading Time: 3 minutes You may never know the outcome of your actions. But you can know with certainty the results of doing nothing
Wet’suwet’en protests throw us all into chaos
Reading Time: 3 minutes While the project is a win for the province, the country, the environment and B.C.’s First Nations, these hereditary chiefs don’t see it that way
Wet’suwet’en protests create a national tipping point
Reading Time: 3 minutes The duties of Aboriginal title and the general public awareness of climate science have combined to create a sense that enough is enough
Why won’t Canada help me get my mother’s killers?
Reading Time: 3 minutes When it comes to Indo-Canadians being killed in India, there seems to be a different standard for the RCMP
How politicians manipulate our decision making
Reading Time: 3 minutes The recent federal election offered us a lesson on how the manipulation of a narrative can have dramatic impact on how we think and behave
Ontario justice delays create injustices
Reading Time: 4 minutes Wait times for court proceedings to help children escape physical or psychological harm are far too long. Society is failing to protect these vulnerable citizens
Patients deserve access to timely medical care
Reading Time: 4 minutes The B.C. government’s claim in the court challenge to medicare that waiting lists don’t harm patients is nothing short of ridiculous
We must fight crime at its social roots
Reading Time: 3 minutes The rash of liquor store robberies in Winnipeg says more about underlying social problems than it does about the effectiveness of police
Economic justice on the way for U.S. college athletes
Reading Time: 4 minutes The hypocrisy in college athletics promotes the amateur myth and tries to suppress the fact that the young athletes have significant market value