Category: Canada
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The Working Class: Saskatchewan’s Political Orphan
We all suffer from the absence of working class politics. We are smothered in the business-oriented, neoliberal ‘consensus’ instructing us to reconcile ourselves to ‘the new reality’ – rollbacks in … Keep reading »
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Canadian Mining and Popular Resistance
Canada is one of the world’s centres of the mining and extractive sector. Toronto is the centre of the trade in mining stocks and in financing mining operations. Canadian mining … Watch video »
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Oppose the Energy East Pipeline
TransCanada’s Energy East project is the largest tar sands pipeline proposed yet. Stretching from Alberta to New Brunswick, Energy East could carry over 1 million barrels per day of tar … Watch video »
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Wall: Sky Darkens for Sunshine Premier
Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall had already broken one promise even before he called the election: “We didn’t make a lot of election promises, but we made one significant one – … Keep reading »
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The Struggle over Site C Dam and the Peace River
British Columbia — 13 July 2016. The energy from Site C is not needed: After 28 days of hearings and review of 28,000 pages of documentation, the Joint Review Panel … Watch video »
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Wall: Sunshine Premier Makes History
Saskatchewan Party leader Brad Wall has earned a major place in Saskatchewan’s political history. On April 4 he broke the back of the NDP, the province’s “natural governing party” since … Keep reading »
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A Leap Toward Radical Politics?
The Leap Manifesto is, in a way, Canada’s version of the burst of Left and socialist energies that have come with the Bernie Sanders campaign in the Democratic Party in … Keep reading »
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Federal NDP’s Pact With Satan Implodes
“No CCF Government will rest content until it has eradicated capitalism and put into operation the full programme of socialized planning which will lead to the establishment in Canada of … Keep reading »
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Canada, Left-Nationalism, and Alternatives
Paul Kellogg interviewed by Robin Chang on Escape from the Staples Trap A concrete understanding of contemporary Canadian economic development depends in part on a grasp of the current institutional structures … Keep reading »
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After the Sands
Energy and Ecological Security for Canadians Toronto — 7 April 2016. View on www.slideshare.net The Paris climate accords were strong on aspirations to keep the world below 2C temperature rise but … Watch video »
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What Did Quebec Public-Sector Unions Achieve?
After a wave of protests and job actions that culminated in Quebec’s largest general strike in decades last December, public-sector unions have agreed to a series of contracts with disappointing … Keep reading »
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Age of Austerity: Capital, the Financial Crisis and the State in Canada
Geoffrey McCormack and Thom Workman interviewed by Robin Chang The financial and economic crisis of 2008 has left a continuing legacy on social welfare, showing up in slow economic growth, unemployment … Keep reading »