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On Monday October 19, the Alberta separatist movement is going to face a major test. Albertans are voting on whether to start a legal process to hold a referendum on full independence from Canada. Poll numbers in favour of separation have not cracked 25 percent as of this past week, meaning the movement is set up for a loss on Monday. Still, 25% is a big number, and leads to some questions, including one that I’m sure all of us have had at some point: “who is behind the separatist...

On September 16, Mississauga passed an interim control by-law pausing approval on all data centres with a peak power draw of over 10MW for the next year. Mississauga is one of a growing number of municipalities putting planning before development on these large digital infrastructure projects in order to make sure the right guard rails and regulations are in place before more data centres show up. But why are these centres showing up everywhere, and why has there so much pushback?...

Canada’s single payer healthcare system has always been a point of national pride. But according to advocates, policy decisions by the provinces are actively undermining the healthcare system we all rely on. Alberta’s expansion of private-pay models, British Columbia’s reversal of harm reduction and decriminalization measures amid an ongoing public health emergency, Quebec’s handling of tuberculosis outbreaks in Inuit communities, and Ontario’s cuts to funding for long-term care are all...

Five of Ontario’s Education Unions representing over 250,000 workers have served notice to the province to begin bargaining ahead of next school year, in a move some are calling “unprecedented.” Union leaders involved in the announcement have described this announcement as an opportunity for a quarter of a million education workers to say “enough is enough” regarding the chronic understaffing and underfunding of public education. Joe Tigani, president of the Ontario School Board Council of Un...

"The homeless are not Other. They are Us," Ontario's Superior Court declared last month. In a ruling that had advocates cheering, Justice Michael Gibson affirmed that unhoused people are entitled to the same Charter rights as any other Canadian — and that a bylaw targeting a specific encampment for removal had therefore amounted to anti-homeless discrimination. This left Doug Ford fuming. But this isn't about the premier. Not mostly, anyway. It is, as our story explains, about the...