Columnists March 1
Rick Salutin | Wilson-Raybould's take on the SNC-Lavalin affair reminds us of deep political double standards and Canada's flagrant disregard of Indigenous sovereignty.
Blog March 1
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John Foran | The Green New Deal offers us an opportunity to radicalize youth -- and the climate justice movement more broadly -- to consider ecosocialism, and system change not climate change.
Blog March 1
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David J. Climenhaga | John F. Kennedy observed that "where there is smoke, there is usually a smoke-making machine." There's enough smoke in this Kenney case though, you have to wonder if there's a fire.
Blog March 1
Hundreds gather in San Francisco with the youth led Sunrise Movement. Photo: Peg Hunter/Flickr
Jennifer Scarlott | If fossil capitalism is to lose the fight, it must be met by ecosocialism embodied in the strongest possible counterforce of environmental justice organizations and allies.
Blog March 1
SNC Lavalin Headquarters in Montreal. Photo: Jeangagnon/Wikimedia Commons
Ed Finn | SNC-Lavalin had every reason to expect a rescue from a political party whose election campaigns it had so generously funded, and with whom it had developed such a long and cozy relationship.
Blog March 1
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David J. Climenhaga | The former UCP financial officer was fined $3,500 for donating the same sum "with funds given or furnished by another person."
Podcast March 1
Are organized thugs killing people with drugs in BC? RadioLabour's Canada Report for March 1-8, 2019
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough | The BCGEU wants a public inquiry into organized crime and drug overdosing; OFL to fight health-care privatization; African labour leader arrested in Zimbabwe.
Columnists March 1
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Marianela Ramos Capelo, Digital Freedom Update | An internet tax would require internet service providers to pay into content funding. But taxing the open internet to subsidize a struggling Big Media content industry is not the way to go.
Blog February 28
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Carol Dansereau | The Green New Deal will be either our final illusion or a gateway to survival.
News February 28
 Prime Minister Trudeau speaks with media in the Foyer of the House of Commons. Photo: Adam Scotti/PMO
Karl Nerenberg | The Trudeau government betrayed its promise of openness in the SNC-Lavalin affair. Conservatives were worse when in power, but are profiting. What about the NDP?
Columnists February 28
U.S. President Donald Trump speaking at the 2018 Conservative Political Action Conference. Photo: Gage Skidmore/Wikimedia Commons
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan | Any attempt to heal the deep wounds of racism that scar the United States must include a direct challenge to Donald Trump.
Blog February 28
Hundreds gather in San Francisco with the youth led Sunrise Movement. Photo: Peg Hunter/Flickr
Ted Franklin | Labour's skepticism is the elephant in the room confronting organizers fighting for a Green New Deal ambitious enough to avoid catastrophic climate change.