Half a year after the Liberal-NDP agreement included plans to develop a fairer tax system and seven years after the Liberals came to power, most of the government’s promises on fair taxation remain unfulfilled. Meanwhile, other countries are leaving Canada behind, and implementing fair tax policies that will help them address key issues like inflation and the climate crisis.

26 August 2022, Julian Assange is filing his Perfected Grounds of Appeal before the High Court of Justice Administrative Court. The Respondents are the Government of the United States and the Secretary of State for the Home Department, Priti Patel.

President Joe Biden is planning to declare Ukraine an official U.S. military operation, the Aug. 24 Wall Street Journal reports, making it a separate command with its own general.

“Pink Floyd” star declared “Enemy of Ukraine”

The Right broke Ontario’s health care system. Now they can’t wait to replace it with a parallel, two-tiered system that benefits the rich.

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, US-based media platforms have made an extraordinary effort to cut Western audiences off from news from a Russian perspective. When social critic Noam Chomsky pointed out how unprecedented this was, Newsweek‘s “factchecker” (7/26/22) declared his criticism “clearly untrue”—a determination that did more to confirm the ideological strictures of US media than to debunk them.

The COP 27 UN Climate Conference will be held in Sharm El Sheikh, Egypt this November. Three obstacles to climate justice must be addressed: right-wing climate denialism, the vested interests of the energy sector, and Western countries’ refusal to admit their responsibility for the problem and repay their climate debt to the Global South. While debates tend to revolve around various Green New Deal concepts, we must move beyond simply trying to save capitalism and build a new system.