Category: Canada
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A Short Guide for Canadian Anti-Imperialists on the Current Crisis in Venezuela
With the Lima Group meeting in Ottawa, the news of the crisis in Venezuela has hit Canadian headlines. This short guide intends to provide some key talking points for progressives who might not be ready to comment on what is happening in Venezuela, but are critical of the interventionist stance of the Canadian government. Keep reading »
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The Real Face of Justin Trudeau
Ramzy Baroud analyses Canada’s contradictory foreign policy regarding Palestine and Israel. Keep reading »
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Québec Solidaire Reviews the Election and Maps Campaign on Climate Crisis
Québec solidaire (QS) will make climate change the party’s main political campaign issue in the coming year, both in and outside of the National Assembly. The campaign will build on … Keep reading »
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Cuts, Cuts, Cuts: Ontario’s New Education Funding Guide
Doug Ford has got out his scissors! Everything is on the chopping block ( except his camper van). Or – more likely – he wants to open up public services to business. Keep reading »
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Capitalism: A Crime Story – Harry Glasbeek Book Launch
Book launch of Harry Glasbeek’s Capitalism: A Crime Story. Recorded in Toronto, 16 October 2018. Watch video »
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Tailings Dam Spills at Mount Polley and Mariana
On August 4, 2014, the dam holding toxic waste from the Mount Polley copper and gold mine in British Columbia collapsed, creating the largest environmental disaster in Canada’s mining history. Keep reading »
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Class War Conservatism and Resistance to the Doug Ford Tories
The Fordist Conservative government in Ontario presents a pressing challenge to politics as usual and raises the stakes for working class resistance. Almost immediately upon taking office Doug Ford and … Keep reading »
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Québec Solidaire Prepares to Confront a New Government of Austerity and Social and Ethnic Polarization
Québec solidaire’s 10 members of the National Assembly, elected October 1, took their oath of office on October 17 in two parts. The oath of allegiance to the Queen, required … Keep reading »
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It’s Time We Dispel The Myth Of ‘Progressive’ Liberalism In Ontario
Far from progressive public policy, it has been tax cuts and austerity that has prevailed in Ontario over the last decade. Keep reading »
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The Toronto Overdose Prevention Society w/ Sarah Ovens
Episode 7: Canada is in the midst of an opioid overdose epidemic. In 2016 there were 3,005 opioid-related deaths in Canada. In 2017 the figure jumped to 3,996. Listen to audio »
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Solidaires Score Important Breakthrough in Quebec Election
Analysis of the 2018 Quebec general election and the growth of the Québec solidaire party. Keep reading »
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Authoritarian Fordism in Ontario Trumps the Far Right Elsewhere
On the day the Ford government’s ham-fisted attempt to alter the balance of political forces in Toronto came to a head in open confrontation with the judiciary, the international media’s … Keep reading »