Federal Elections Coverage 2021
Is “It’s your mess, you clean it up!” a viable recycling strategy?
Technically, it’s called “extended producer responsibility”—and in practice it means governments handing over the task of recycling packaging to the companies that produce the waste. It happens in some...
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Inside the hilarious, secretive and petty world of book blurbs
We’ve all been told not to judge a book by its cover. So why do so many people—from readers, to retailers, to publishers and reviewers—judge them by one little...
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The world waits for Israel’s ground offensive, and whatever comes next
The Israel-Hamas war is near a tipping point. At some point Israel will have to decide to push forward with a massive and unprecedented ground offensive into Gaza in...
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Why is BC banning drug use in public spaces?
Earlier this year, the province decriminalized certain amounts of some hard drugs, in an attempt to curb the overdose crisis. Nine months later, the same government has introduced legislation...
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Why are we building fewer homes now than during the worst of the pandemic?
Now that we know how huge the gap on housing is—Canada needs 3.5 million more homes by 2030—you would think governments across the country would be doing everything they...
Will the supreme court decide the future of sex work in Canada?
After a Charter challenge was turned away in Ontario, an appeal may bring the laws that govern sex work in this country directly to the supreme court—and these laws...
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