Columnists July 6
Kris Kobach. Image: Flickr/AndrewRosenthal
Trump lost the 2016 popular vote, 2020 could be another story if Republicans access voter data
Amy Goodman | If Kris Kobach and his Republican allies get their hands on the data and succeed in suppressing the vote, then Trump may well be on his way to a landslide victory in 2020.
Blog July 6
Anwar Nillufary
Hunger strike on the steps of the UNHCR office in Athens
Raluca Bejan | On Friday, July 7, 2017, Anwar starts his 108th day of protest: 64 days of hunger strike plus 44 days of regular protest on the doorstep of the UNHCR in Athens.
Columnists July 6
The return of Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, Ottawa, March 1919. Photo: Library and Archives Canada, PA-099796 /flickr
Get out the lawn chairs: 100th anniversary of income tax is worth celebrating as much as Vimy, Canada Day
Linda McQuaig | In any thoughtful assessment, the establishment of an income tax would be regarded as a nation-building event -- ultimately as important as what was achieved at Vimy or in Charlottetown.
Blog July 6
Photo of Omar Khadr. Image: Khadr family/Wikimedia Commons
Canadian Taxpayers Federation's position on Khadr case exposes the group's partisan inclinations
David J. Climenhaga | Never mind the cause. What kind of a "tax watchdog" starts a petition demanding that the government, which is acting prudently with our money, hose more of it away?
Blog July 5
Three children operating rocker at a gold mine on Dominion Creek, Yukon Territory. Image: Wikimedia Commons/Eric A. Hegg Photographs
Today's plutocrats seek to recreate 19th-century dystopia with inhumane labour practices
Ed Finn | Corporate-decreed barbarism and inequality is already rampant in many developing countries, and even in some developed one. Including Canada.
Podcast July 6
Canadian International Wine Product of Canada
Canadian Blush
Kelly Okamura | Now that Canada is mid-way through the sesquicentennial Confederation year parade, goodergoods asks the question -- do our souvenirs represent Canadian values?
News July 6
G20 Oxfam photo demo. Photo: Mike Auerbach/Oxfam
Protesters descend on Hamburg demanding substantial change from G20
Steve Price-Thomas | This is a time for seriousness and substantial answers to huge problems. Can the G20 come up with any of them?
Podcast July 6
Guatemalan streetscape - Victoria Fenner
The Long Journey Home
Victoria Fenner | A documentary by Carlos Tello and Aurora Tejeida exploring one woman's experience of the Guatemalan Civil War many years after it was over.
Blog July 6
Image: Flickr/OFL Communications Department
While Child labour is rampant in developing nations, modern day serfdom on the rise in Canada
Ed Finn | The callous mistreatment of working people was not only condoned, but even extolled -- and not just by the business establishment.
Blog July 5
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Using our taxes to build the Canada we want
Dennis Howlett | The tax system can be a powerful tool for redistributing wealth and reducing inequality and poverty. We all benefit from a more equal society with better health, reduced crime, and better education.
News July 5
Charlie Angus Got Your Back Tour 2017. Image: Facebook/Charlie Angus
Charlie Angus's journey from punk rock to activism to politics
Karl Nerenberg | Charlie Angus is perhaps best known as a passionate and articulate advocate in Parliament for Indigenous people. He wants to create a discourse that will cross the many lines of division in Canada.
Podcast July 5
Zaradasht Ahmed on perspective and the Iraq occupation
'Nowhere to Hide' - five years of change in Iraq's 'triangle of death'
Face2Face | Zaradasht Ahmed and Face2Face host David Peck talk about his award winning film about the occupation of Iraq as seen through the eyes of an Iraqi nurse.