One of the oddest things about Kabul is that it's home to some of the most hardcore Barack Obama supporters in the world. And they are getting ready to celebrate.

What union leaders, labour experts and anti-poverty activists say needs to be done about the current financial crisis.

Are you better off now than you were in 1988? Chances are you're not, according to a new report from the OECD.

2008 has been a colder-than-we're-used-to (lately) year for North America. In fact, there is a good chance that the next few years will be much like it. But it's not because the laws of thermodynamics have suddenly changed.

Government officials and human rights activists in Canada are worried that Vancouver's 2010 Olympics could become a magnet for traffickers. In Athens during the 2004 Olympic Games, human trafficking cases nearly doubled.

Groups hurry to change the law, and how business is done, before 2010.

The richest 10 per cent of Canadians have nearly two-and-a-half times the environmental impact of the poorest 10 per cent, a new study says. And climate change policies that ignore this disparity will not only be ineffective, but will make things worse.

Indonesia's health minister, Siti Fadilah Supari, has been playing politics with bird flu for over a year. In May she stopped cooperating with the WHO and clamped down on news of a disease that has killed four out of every five Indonesians it has infected

This spring, the B.C. government announced North America's first "revenue neutral" carbon tax. In its first year it includes a $100 "Climate Action Dividend" cheque for every British Columbian. That's $440 million and

'Men Speak Up' targets silence, and pain, in resource towns. The goal of the year-long anti-violence initiative is to help workplaces find a way to respond to employees dealing with violence in relationships.