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State and Market Climate Failures Amplified by Civil Society Failure
| March 12, 2012
After the Durban climate talks In 2007, former World Bank chief economist Nick Stern termed climate change the worst “market failure” in history – since those who pollute with greenhouse gases … Keep reading »
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Transit Forum 2012
| March 11, 2012
Toronto — 3 March 2012. Moderated by Paul M. Jonah Schein – NDP Urban Transport Critic, Davenport MPP Arabi Rajeswaran and Mckenzie – Rexdale Youth TTC Challenge Brenda Thompson – … Watch video »
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Haiti: Solidarity and Social Justice
| March 4, 2012
Toronto — 17 February 2012. Moderated by Kevin Edmonds. Roger Annis, coordinator of the Canada Haiti Action Network in Vancouver and director of a ten-day fact-finding and solidarity mission to … Watch video »
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Factory Occupation Saves Jobs
| March 1, 2012
A 12-hour occupation by workers at a Chicago factory on February 23 won an agreement that will save workers’ jobs for at least three months so they can seek other … Keep reading »
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Greek Lessons: Democracy versus Debt-Bondage
| February 26, 2012
It is a truism to say that democracy began with the Greeks – less so to say that it originated in popular rebellion against debt and debt-bondage. Yet, with the … Keep reading »
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Is the ‘Green Economy’ a New Washington Consensus?
| February 23, 2012
Working Group on Green Economy The current environmental and climate crisis is not simply a market failure because nature is not simply a form of capital. Putting a price on nature … Keep reading »
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Drumming Up a Healthcare Crisis
| February 21, 2012
The Drummond Report’s Implications for Health Policy In a Maclean’s interview in November 2008, former TD Bank Chief Economist (2000-2010) and head of the eponymously titled ‘Drummond Report’ spoke truer than … Keep reading »
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An ‘Excess of Democracy’?
| February 16, 2012
What Two Generations of Radicals Can Learn From Each Other The ability of the Occupy movement to create platforms outside our closed political system to force open a debate on inequality, … Keep reading »
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Greece: From Despair to Resistance
| February 14, 2012
On Sunday 12 February 2012 the people of Greece, in demonstrations and street fights all over the country expressed in a massive, collective and heroic way their anger against the … Keep reading »
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ALBA Advances toward ‘Alternative Economic Model’, Pursues Anti-Imperialist Agenda
| February 13, 2012
Member countries of Latin America’s alternative integration bloc, the Bolivarian Alliance for the Peoples of Our America (ALBA), met in the Venezuelan capital of Caracas last weekend in order to … Keep reading »
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The NDP Leadership Race: Sleepwalking Toward the Centre?
| February 10, 2012
For the first time, the New Democratic Party (NDP) is holding a leadership race that involves picking the leader of the Official Opposition and someone that can, with some credibility, … Keep reading »
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Canadian Health Care: Privatization and Gendered Labour
| February 6, 2012
Priscillia Lefebvre is a collaborative Ph.D. student at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology/Institute of Political Economy, Carleton University (Ottawa, Canada). Pat Armstrong is Professor of Sociology and Women’s Studies … Keep reading »
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