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Canada's pioneering progressive news site shutting down after 13 years

by Ish Theilheimer, Publisher, Straight Goods News

I'm writing to thank you for your readership of and support for SGNews and to let you know that SGNews is going out of business. The good news is that we are joining forces with the online progresssive news source, rabble.ca. Our two boards of directors have reached an understanding under which rabble.ca will feature all the SGN writers that choose to come over, post our archives, and enjoy our cooperation to build one, strong progressive Canadian news service.

We wish the folks at rabble.ca luck in this difficult work. They ...Read more

September 19, 2013

Features

October 12, 2012 | sgnews

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Harper helped push world toward austerity

by Linda McQuaig on July 29, 2013

Thoughts from the tar sands healing walk

by Stephen Leahy on July 29, 2013

Youth: educated and unemployed

by Colleen Teubner on July 29, 2013

Muslims aren’t cornering the terrorism market

by Emily Schwartz Greco and William A Collins on July 29, 2013

US Internet surveillance could backfire

by SGNews Contributor on July 22, 2013

Editorials

April 11, 2012 | sgnews

SGNews joining forces with rabble.ca

by Ish Theilheimer on September 19, 2013

Time for a new Marshall Plan

by Ish Theilheimer on July 22, 2013

The rivers that ate Calgary

by Penney Kome on June 24, 2013

The public and the privileged

by Ish Theilheimer on June 17, 2013

Obama’s Shock Doctrine strategy shrinks defense spending

by Penney Kome on June 13, 2013

Public Values

April 8, 2012 | sgnews

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The crisis of extreme capitalism

by The Tyee on July 18, 2013

New freedom agenda challenges prison expansion

by Public Values Contributor on July 18, 2013

The billionaires’ war against public education

by Public Values Contributor on July 18, 2013

If you thought ALEC was bad

by SGNews Contributor on July 18, 2013

Cashing in on kids: ALEC promotes for-profit education

by Public Values Contributor on July 18, 2013

Canadian politics

April 4, 2012 | sgnews

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BC bomb plot mystery

by Bill Tieleman on August 14, 2013

Remembering Rocky Jones

by Stephen Kimber on August 13, 2013

Premiers support inquiry into Stolen Sisters

by National Union of Public and General Employees on July 29, 2013

Information breakthrough in Nova Scotia!

by Stephen Kimber on July 29, 2013

Bob Rae steps into the Ring of Fire

by David McLaren on July 29, 2013

Columnists

July 5, 2012 | sgnews

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One-cell wonders

by David Suzuki on August 14, 2013

A Tory leader’s life is never dull

by Geoffrey Stevens on August 13, 2013

Reading the Ontario by-election results

by Geoffrey Stevens on August 7, 2013

Fear of information is an insidious Ottawa disease

by Geoffrey Stevens on July 29, 2013

NB’s unwanted distinction

by Jody Dallaire on July 26, 2013

Workplaces

April 2, 2012 | sgnews

Canada’s employment standards broken

by SGNews Contributor on July 30, 2013

Trafficking in workers

by International Labour Organization on July 29, 2013

Budgeting with Mickey Dee

by SGNews Staff on July 12, 2013

The facts on public service sick leave

by Professional Institute of the Public Service of Canada on July 8, 2013

Profitization: underwriting bad jobs

by Demos on July 4, 2013

World beat

April 2, 2012 | sgnews

Dances with indyks: negotiating Middle East peace

by Uri Avnery on July 29, 2013

Fukushima hemorrhaging radioactivity into Pacific

by SGNews Contributor on July 22, 2013

Sorting out Syria

by Paul Weinberg on July 22, 2013

A Human Spring

by Uri Avnery on July 8, 2013

Butterflies in Damascus

by Uri Avnery on June 17, 2013

Faith speaks

June 22, 2012 | sgnews

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Vulture funds keep Argentina in debt

by Jubilee USA Network on July 22, 2013

Lament from a white father

by Jim Wallis on July 15, 2013

Arrested for fighting fracking

by SGNews Contributor on July 14, 2013

Catholics and trade unions

by Dennis Gruending on July 9, 2013

Step right up, Office of Religious Freedom

by Universal Society of Hinduism on June 5, 2013

Media files

June 23, 2012 | sgnews

When a terrorist looks like the boy next door

by Dr Ronald Crelinsten on July 29, 2013

Challenging the HathiTrust again

by John Degen on July 8, 2013

PMO planting Justin Trudeau stories

by John Gordon Miller on June 24, 2013

Top investigative reporter dies in freak car crash

by The Young Turks on June 20, 2013

Journalists and expense accounts

by John Gordon Miller on June 10, 2013

Humour

June 23, 2012 | sgnews

Keep to the left, please

by SGNews Contributor on July 25, 2013

The royal baby-catcher

by SGNews Contributor on July 23, 2013

Steam punk spider band

by SGNews Contributor on July 15, 2013

Funny cat videos

by SGNews Contributor on July 8, 2013

Supersoaker choreography

by SGNews Contributor on July 3, 2013

News blog

September 3, 2012 | SGNews Staff

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