Category: Canada
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Ontario’s Big Pharma Drug War
The Ontario government has recently announced major changes to the way that it will pay for generic drugs for those covered under its public drug plan, primarily people 65 and … Keep reading »
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Memories of Michel
Michel Chartrand, an outstanding leader of the Quebec labour, nationalist, socialist and social justice movements, died on April 12 at the age of 93. A multitude of Québécois worked with … Keep reading »
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Canadian Funding for the Only Palestinian Research Center in Israel Cut
Added to the list of civil society organizations under attack in Canada by the Harper government’s devastating position on the Zionist-Palestinian conflict is MADA al-Carmel, the Haifa based Arab Center … Keep reading »
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Why the Parti Québécois Expelled SPQ Libre
A five-year long attempt to reform the Parti Québécois (PQ) as an independentist and “social-democratic” party ended abruptly on March 13 when the PQ’s national executive decided not to renew … Keep reading »
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The Newly Benevolent Harper
Anyone who monitors Canadian media closely will recognize the recent and drastic shift in policy, or at least rhetoric, stemming from the PMO (Prime Minister’s Office) and Cabinet. It started … Keep reading »
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Thousands Protest Opening of Vancouver Winter Olympics
Vancouver BC — Five thousand people took to the streets here on February 12 to protest the opening of the corporate spectacle known as the 2010 Vancouver Winter Olympics. The … Keep reading »
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Olympic Flame Parades Through Ravaged Northern British Columbia
February 2, 2010 — The Vancouver Winter Olympic torch relay is winding its way across northern British Columbia this week. It arrived in the coastal town of Kitimat yesterday. The … Keep reading »
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Beyond ‘Stimulus’ – Fiscal Policy After the Great Recession
As the communiqué from the Pittsburgh G20 summit put it, “it worked.” Unprecedented macro-economic stimulus in the form of ultra low interest rates and large government deficits has pulled the … Keep reading »
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The Dexter NDP: Old Wine, New Bottle?
“I’ve waited all my life to see a socialist government in Nova Scotia. I’m still waiting.” — Voter email read on CBC Newsworld on election night.[1] On June 9, 2009 … Keep reading »
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Québec solidaire: A Left-of-the-Left Formation?
The first decade of the 21st century has seen the rise of new ‘left of the left’ formations in several Western countries. The best known cases are the Nouveau Parti … Keep reading »
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Ottawa Citizen Smears Progressive Activists
It’s not every day that the Ottawa Citizen mentions Socialist Voice, but on November 30 the pillar of the Canwest media empire broke its silence – and misquoted us as … Keep reading »
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Quebec Left Debates Independence Strategy
LAVAL — Québec solidaire, the left-wing party founded almost four years ago, held its fifth convention in this Montréal suburb on November 20-22. About 300 elected delegates debated and adopted … Keep reading »