Photo by Akinbostanci All Hannah Kreager can do is wait. She’s spent months in Calgary now, a decision she made after hearing talk about intensified uses of federal power from the Trump administration. She had always thought she would leave her home in Tucson, Arizona, maybe for college, but she’d never planned to leave the […] More »

The United Nations has declared this month Human Rights Month, with December 10 marking Human Rights Day. Consider it perfect timing: JayU’s fifth-annual human rights film festival kicks off tonight in Toronto, celebrating and visualizing human rights through 12 thought-provoking documentaries. JayU founder and executive director Gilad Cohen says the program this year is especially holistic and […] More »

When the last parliament dissolved for the 2011 Federal Election, we profiled five bills that died when the writ was dropped. Four of those — cheaper HIV drugs for the developing world, protecting trans rights, improving water for First Nations, and improving decorum in the House — were real losses (the last, a painfully flawed […] More »