The Canadian Progressive

The West must start treating vaccines as a global public good – before it’s too late

"It is not surprising, therefore, that there is now a vast global coalition of NGOs, states and UN agencies that favour the recognition of vaccines (and health in general) as a public good and not a business, and the consequent temporary suspension of patent rights."

ByThe Canadian Progressive
OnApril 29, 2021

Derek Chauvin convicted for brutal murder of George Floyd

This week, the most consequential trial in this historic era of the Black Lives Matter civil rights movement culminated in a rare guilty verdict. A Minneapolis jury found Derek Chauvin, a white man and former police officer, guilty of the May 2020 brutal, daylight lynching of George Floyd, a Black American man.

ByObert Madondo
OnApril 25, 2021

Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos

“Black power” and “Black Lives Matter” can't be used to find videos for ads, but “White power” and “White lives matter” were just fine.

ByThe Canadian Progressive
OnApril 24, 2021

Obamas on Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict: “Today, a jury did the right thing.”

The "jury did the right thing" when it found Derek Chauvin, the white former Minneapolis police officer who murdered George Floyd, a Black man, guilty on all three charges of murder and manslaughter, according to former U.S. President Barack Obama and former first lady Michelle Obama.

ByObert Madondo
OnApril 23, 2021

The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer’s trial

U.S. civil liberties and media freedom played a key role in 17-year-old Darnella Frazier's recording and dissemination of a cellphone video of the murder of George Floyd, a Black man, by Derek Chauvin, a white former Minneapolis police officer who was this week found guilty on all three charges brought against him in relation to the May 2020 murder.

ByThe Canadian Progressive
OnApril 22, 2021

THE CANADIAN PROGRESSIVE

The West must start treating vaccines as a global public good – before it’s too late

Derek Chauvin convicted for brutal murder of George Floyd

Google Blocks Advertisers from Targeting Black Lives Matter YouTube Videos

Obamas on Derek Chauvin’s guilty verdict: “Today, a jury did the right thing.”

The other George Floyd story: How media freedom led to conviction in his killer’s trial