The Ontario Municipal Employees’ Retirement System, like pension funds everywhere, engages in socially harmful speculation and investment. Pension funds should be paid for by contributions and taxes, not financialization.

On Nov. 30, the six Wolastoqey First Nations in New Brunswick filed a legal claim to take back land given to JD Irving Limited and 18 of its subsidiaries or related entities, NB Power, and four other forestry companies: Acadian Timber, Twin Rivers Paper, HJ Crabbe & Sons, and A.V. Group.

Barbados’s decision to become a republic happily brings to an end its centuries-long formal subjection to the British Empire. But as the country has already discovered in its dealings with the IMF and World Bank, not all forms of colonialism are so easily rebuffed.

The recently passed US “Build Back Better Act” includes a section that is causing great angst for America’s co-signers of the US-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement (USMCA). Justified as addressing the environmental crisis as well as jobs, the US legislation provides for rebates on electric vehicles sold in the US – but only if the vehicles are also produced in the US.

Three decades after Augusto Pinochet’s fall, Chile stands at the precipice of electing a socialist president and reordering its political system. But the achievement of genuine democracy in the birthplace of neoliberalism is far from guaranteed.

For months, medical experts warned that leaving large areas of the world unvaccinated would make new variants inevitable – but for Big Pharma, profits come before public health.