THE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: US Patent Office Says It Won’t Protect a Racial...
The US Patent Office says it won’t protect a racial slur. Democracy Now talks to Amanda Blackhorse to explain what it means for the Washington Redskins. The post US Patent Office Says It Won’t Protect...
View ArticleTHE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE: Opponents Vow To Stop Enbridge’s Northern Gateway...
First Nations groups say that the pipeline would disrupt their traditional seafood harvest and endanger their culture. The post Opponents Vow To Stop Enbridge’s Northern Gateway Pipeline appeared first...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: The climate movement returns to the international...
With three major international climate change-focused meetings on the horizon, the climate movement returns to the international stage, argues Jim Shultz, the founder and executive director of The...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: 5 people who used extreme empathy to change the world
English economist and social reformer Beatrice Webb is one of the five “empathy heroes” who changed the world by taking compassion to the extreme. The post 5 people who used extreme empathy to change...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: How the people can stop the tide of police...
Norm Stamper, a 34-year veteran police officer and retired Seattle chief of police, suggests 5 ways to stop the burgeoning trend of police militarization. The post How the people can stop the tide of...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Climate denial in the TPP trade agreement
The 5,000-page TPP agreement “is literally in climate denial” while expanding the rights of corporations, argues Ben Lilliston, the director of climate strategies at the Institute for Agriculture and...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: In Alberta, First Nations engage in a complex dance...
In this illuminating piece, Seattle journalist Erika Lundahl examines how, in Alberta, First Nations are forced to "engage in a complex dance of resistance to and cooperation with" Big Oil "in order to...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: This “new” feminism is the same feminism started by...
Our grandmothers showed us a bigger, better feminism with women’s rights, racial equity, and gender justice at its heart, writes award-winning journalist Dani McClain. The post This “new” feminism is...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: How to Fight Big Oil: Join Your Neighbors
Yes! Magazine co-founder Sarah van Gelder outlines the four reasons communities led by indigenous people all over the United States are winning against the war against the powerful and deep-pocketed...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Trump win a call to arms for radical feminist men
Donald Trump’s election as the 45th President of the Unites States is a renewed call on radical feminist men to reject patriarchy, misogyny, sexism, white supremacy, and other men’s claim to control...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Van Jones Unleashes His Love Army Against Trump’s...
So far, more than 100,000 people have joined social justice champion and longtime civil rights activist Van Jones’ #LoveArmy campaign against Donald Trump racially-loaded exclusionary policies...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: The Mental and Physical Trauma of “Dreamers” Living...
Since Trump’s election, the future of Daniela Vargas and more than 750,000 recipients of former president Obama’s Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals program has been uncertain. Most of them now...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: How Chicago Became the First City to Make...
The recent passage of historic reparations legislation in Chicago means black people who have experienced racial violence at the hands of the police can be granted reparations. The post How Chicago...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Mental illness the go-to excuse for white men...
The label “mental illness”, when referred to white men who’ve committed acts of terrorism against people of color, downplays racism and elicits sympathy for the bigoted murderer, argues Zenobia...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Judge’s Ruling on Standing Rock a Second Chance for...
The federal court’s recent ruling on the Dakota Access Pipeline saga could start a new chapter guaranteeing the rule of law and protection of water protectors, argues Mark Trahant, the Charles R....
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: No, I Won’t Stop Saying “White Supremacy”
According to Robin DiAngelo, a former Associate Professor of Multicultural Education: “Naming white supremacy changes the conversation because it shifts the problem to white people, where it belongs.”...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: 7 Reminders for White Parents Talking to Their Kids...
When White parents talk to their children about police killings of Black people, they create future White co-conspirators/allies for primary forces working against racism, the prison industrial complex...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: White People: Don’t Unfriend Your Racist Family...
Here are 8 things to do before unfriending Uncle Dave on your social media platforms because he doesn’t recognize white privilege or is downright racist. The post White People: Don’t Unfriend Your...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: Capitalism Is Not the Only Choice
Capitalism in its current form enriches mostly privileged men and sidelines marginalized groups such as people of colour, immigrants and women. We need the courage to imagine and create new solidarity...
View ArticleThe Canadian Progressive: The FCC’s plan to repeal net neutrality threatens...
Federal Communications Commission (FCC) Chairman Ajit Pai’s proposed plan to dismantle net neutrality threatens democracy and the free exchange of ideas and information via the Internet. Even if the...
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