The pattern of Canadian subservience to American foreign policy has continued with little variation for 30 years. The Trudeau government shows little inclination to change matters.
It's refreshing to see a major economics prize recognizing work on climate change and policies that will enable the transition to an economy powered by zero-carbon energy sources.
Stagnating wages, insecure work and harsh laws against organizing have galvanized Australian unions to campaign for better rights, better conditions and better laws.
Lois Ross was one of many young Canadians who went down to Nicaragua after the election of the Sandinistas in the '80s. Thirty years later, she says there are some similarities to those times.
Salvadoran Archbishop Óscar Romero spoke out against the U.S.-backed military violence that ravaged Central America in the 1980s. His assassination helped galvanize a global solidarity movement.
To better understand present-day events in Nicaragua, we need to revisit the 1979 Sandinista Revolution and the agrarian reform which was to have lifted the poorest citizens out of poverty.
The Peruvian Supreme Court accepted Walter Aduviri’s appeal and overturned the sentence against him. Aduviri has been a spokesperson for the Aymara indigenous communities.