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Fighting for Climate Justice
| September 11, 2017
Lies, damn lies and statistics, right? Well not always – sometimes statistics dramatise social reality in a graphic way. A year before the devastating floods in India, Bangladesh and Texas, … Keep reading »
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Kinder Morgan’s Pipeline Shall Not Pass
| September 8, 2017
Shortly after British Columbia’s recent election, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley publicly declared that one province cannot hold another hostage by blocking a pipeline. She was referring to the fact that … Keep reading »
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Quebec Independence – A Key to Building the Left in Canada
| September 6, 2017
The 2017 edition of the Université populaire (the People’s University), meeting in Montréal August 17-19, included a panel of speakers from Quebec and English Canada on the possibilities for building … Keep reading »
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Labour and the Corporate Economy
| September 4, 2017
General Electric (GE) is moving out of Peterborough. It leaves the town, the county, Ontario and Canada with an enormous mess. One of the world’s largest conglomerates has become the … Keep reading »
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Ingo Schmidt – The Hope of the Hopeless
| September 3, 2017
Contemporary Lessons from Marxist Struggles Against Hitler and Mussolini Fascist movements are on the rise. But does that mean that Donald Trump’s America, Viktor Orbán’s Hungary or Narendra Modi’s India are … Watch video »
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Job Action at Toronto Pearson Airport Shows Why Little Strikes Matter
| September 2, 2017
As Labour Day approaches, we are often reminded of the large strikes that defined Canada’s labour movement. The 30,000 workers in the 1919 Winnipeg General Strike or 11,000 autoworkers in … Keep reading »
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The NAFTA Consensus
| August 29, 2017
The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) talks started on August 16 with very little of the fire and fury Donald Trump had promised during his campaign. His pledge to … Keep reading »
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Afghanistan: There Is Only One Solution
| August 27, 2017
Donald Trump spent a lot of time when campaigning last year denouncing Barack Obama’s foreign policy. Yet within months of entering the White House he too is pledging to continue … Keep reading »
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Grant Devine’s Alternative Truth
| August 25, 2017
The Tory Caucus Fraud Scandal of the 1990s “When it comes to the crime of fraud, single mothers who, out of desperation, cheat on welfare, have most often gone to jail… … Keep reading »
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Catalonia: The Referendum and its Previous Lives
| August 23, 2017
In June 2017 a referendum on Catalan independence was announced by the Government of Catalonia, formed by members of the Junts pel Sí coalition, supported by the Popular Unity Candidacy … Keep reading »
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British Columbia NDP’s Crawl to $15
| August 21, 2017
Last Tuesday the new British Columbia NDP government announced it was raising the province’s minimum wage to $15 an hour by 2021. The new government had already announced it would … Keep reading »
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How New York Subways Got Broke, On Purpose
| August 18, 2017
New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio is pushing for a tax on the rich to fund desperately needed improvements to the crumbling subway system run by the Metropolitan Transportation … Keep reading »
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