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Blog
June 7
David J. Climenhaga
| If a UCP government were elected, this formula would be applied to more than just one aspect of election financing. Alberta would soon say goodbye to the NDP's ban on corporate and union donations. |
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Podcast
June 7
Face2Face
| Egil Larsen and host David Peck talk about Larsen's new film about the refugee crisis, making sense of time, polarization of real issues, childlike wonder and why he still has hope. |
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Blog
June 7
David Suzuki
| That we're still discovering new wonders in the oceans is more reason to protect them. In early 2016, about three per cent of oceans had formal protection, up from one per cent five years ago. |
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Podcast
June 6
Scott Neigh
| JoAnn Jaffe and Peter Garden talk about the organization Stop the Cuts and about the anti-austerity fightback in Saskatchewan. |
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Blog
June 5
rabble staff
| rabble.ca is happy to announce that Meagan Gillmore will be joining the rabble.ca team as our labour beat reporter for 2017. |
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Blog
June 6
David J. Climenhaga
| Mr. Khan will likely be a persuasive and hard working leader, but it is hard to imagine any circumstance in which Alberta's Liberals can succeed electorally. |
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Blog
June 6
Peter Whitaker
| Bill C-27 establishes a framework for target benefit pensions in the federal private sector and Crown corporations. Why are the Liberals resurrecting the Conservatives' pension plan agenda? |
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Columnists
June 6
Duncan Cameron
| In the 150th year of Confederation, Quebec Premier Philippe Couillard wants to talk about how Canada governs itself. Justin Trudeau put him off, saying he did not want to open the Constitution. |
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Blog
June 5
David J. Climenhaga
| Nowadays many conservative politicians participate in Pride Parades, like next Saturday's in Edmonton. The reason is clear: They've become important political events. |
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News
June 2
Rita Wong, Hiromi Goto
| Depending on how one sees it, this is a critical moment in the decolonization and survival of Turtle Island or a re-containment of Indigenous people in the state apparatus of Canada 150, or both. |
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News
June 2
Meagan Gillmore
| Ontario introduced changes to the Employment Standards Act (ESA) and Labour Relations Act (LRA) on June 1. The proposed changes to labour laws are good, but they won't benefit everyone. |
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Blog
June 2
Gerry Caplan
| May's Conservatives want to wipe out the Labour party, and Labour wants to keep the Conservatives honest. But this is the season of election upsets, so anything could happen. |
