Whether it’s buck-a-beer, easier access to alcohol, or tunnelling under Highway 401, Doug Ford has proven himself to be a master of distraction, diverting attention from his government’s failures and ...

Carney’s first “national interest” project is an oil pipeline through Indigenous territories. Consent was not part of the announcement.

Buy a cheap copy of The End of Nature book by Bill McKibben. Reissued on the tenth anniversary of its publication, this classic work on our environmental crisis features a new introduction by the auth...

Prime Minister Mark Carney's Toronto summit pitch attracted global attention, writes Gustavo Indart, but not all foreign, private investments are created equally.

Trump is preparing sanctions against the International Criminal Court itself, potentially cutting it off from U.S. banking, technology and services. The US has already sanctioned 13 ICC officials and ...

Prominent climate leaders have called on governments, businesses, institutions and the public to make a push for solar power before the decade is out, repowering the world with cheap, clean energy. Is...

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The bombing of an Iranian school, killing 120 children, is one of the worst U.S. war crimes since Vietnam. Drop Site spoke to survivors, first responders, parents, and witnesses. This is their story.

In a letter to Carney, deans from the University of Calgary and the University of Alberta assert public-private model violates the Canada Health Act

More than 600 healthcare workers have signed an open letter demanding the Ontario premier stop his plan to remove three major bike lanes in Toronto.

Our planet has had its annual health check, and the prognosis is pretty grim. Despite breached planetary boundaries, however, scientists argue that Earth can still have a safe and sustainable future.

The war on the motorist and 15-minute conspiracy theories are fiction. The truth is that there is a war on walking, cycling, and transit that has made a one-hou

Truth means zero tolerance for Residential School Denialism

Eight decades after the Nuremberg trials against Nazi war criminals, the Trump administration has launched an all-out assault on the International Criminal Court, primarily over the tribunal’s pursuit...

A coalition of Ontario health-care workers gathered in downtown Toronto on Tuesday to denounce the provincial government’s plan to remove bike lanes on three major roadways across the city.

Tell him to invest in the transportation that will actually reduce gridlock. If we want to solve our traffic problems, we need to give people more affordable choices in how they get around: the choice...

Last spring, Doug Ford’s government seized control of the TDSB, promising to rein in wasteful spending, improve test scores and restore order to public...

An investigation into death, destruction, hunger, genocide findings, settler violence and annexation across Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, October 2023 to September 2026.

The Nuvaxovid vaccine — more commonly known as Novavax — will be made available in Canada for the 2026-2027 season, Sanofi announced this week in a press release. Nuvaxovid is the non-mRNA protein-ba...

No one is expecting the premier to mash out the Bixby letter on his iPhone. Yet we might expect more than this.

Warehouses, locomotives, internet providers, publishers and now the national science academy have become targets. Ukraine's economy ministry puts the cost at up to $10 billion this year, and growth fo...

Food and Agriculture Organization urges governments to make forest restoration a national priority

After the Ontario Court of Appeal (ONCA) shot down CycleTO’s legally innovative charter challenge that sought to stop Doug Ford’s attack on the city’s bike lanes, Queen’s Park wasted little time befor...

Find your closest pharmacy to get a COVID-19 vaccine.

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