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Wab Kinew’s dangerous distraction

Wab Kinew’s dangerous distraction

History shows why First Nations have every reason to be wary of governments calling to tear up the Indian Act

yesterday 2

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Pam Palmater

Class struggle and the limits of parliamentary politics

Class struggle and the limits of parliamentary politics

Clarke: Pinning our hopes and energies on parliamentary politics and winning elections is distracting and futile

yesterday 10

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John Clarke

Setting the stage for growing resistance to Carney’s agenda

Setting the stage for growing resistance to Carney’s agenda

A dispatch from the ‘Many vs. the Money’ counter-summit in Toronto

previous day 6

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Herman Rosenfeld

Who’s on the menu in Carney’s omnibus bill?

Who’s on the menu in Carney’s omnibus bill?

Bill C-39 is a brazen corporate power grab—brought to you by the Business Council of Canada

tuesday 9

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Nik Barry-Shaw

Canada must not give a post-Netanyahu government a free pass

Canada must not give a post-Netanyahu government a free pass

Ottawa should judge Israel’s next government only by its actions

26.10.2026 7

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Nir Hagigi

George Grant: Canadian fate and imperialism

George Grant: Canadian fate and imperialism

From the March-April 1967 edition of CD

26.10.2026 7

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George Grant

The human cost of Canadian gold: Communities in the Caribbean speak out

The human cost of Canadian gold: Communities in the Caribbean speak out

Dominicans and Haitians impacted by Canadian mining are taking their fight to Ottawa

25.10.2026 10

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Diana Martin

Brazil’s democracy on a knife’s edge

Brazil’s democracy on a knife’s edge

Flávio Bolsonaro and a revanchist far right aim to remake Brazil in their image

24.10.2026 8

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Luciano Caria

From the archive: Canada and Vietnam

From the archive: Canada and Vietnam

From the January-February 1966 edition of CD

22.10.2026 9

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John W. Warnock

A dangerous liaison looms in Québec

A dangerous liaison looms in Québec

The PQ’s return to power raises the prospect of a right-wing alliance, renewed austerity, and difficult choices for the left

22.10.2026 10

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Andrea Levy

Canada has stood with Cuba at the UN for decades. Will it do so again?

Canada has stood with Cuba at the UN for decades. Will it do so again?

As Washington tightens its embargo, the Carney government faces a test of its commitment to a new international order

21.10.2026 10

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Stephen Kimber

From the archive: Reflections on a proletarian puberty or a North End ‘place in the sun’

From the April-May 1968 edition of CD

18.10.2026 30

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Larry Zolf

Danielle Smith is dancing to the separatists’ tune

Previous Alberta premiers knew how to deal with the separatist fringe. Smith has chosen to pander to it

18.10.2026 20

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Eric Strikwerda

Trump can’t stop interfering in other countries’ elections

Brazil’s first round of voting has brought renewed attention to Trump’s pattern of interfering in foreign elections

17.10.2026 50

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Ted Snider

Nationalize Stelco—and put Canada’s economic future in public hands

Building genuine economic democracy means going beyond replacing American capitalists with Canadian ones

15.10.2026 30

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Christo Aivalis

Alberta separatism is a tool for building far-right power beyond the referendum

The separatist movement is turning alienation into a vehicle for anti-immigrant and white nationalist political organizing

14.10.2026 10

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Megan Aiken

The soldiers under the trees

On the possibilities and pitfalls of dialogue under occupation

14.10.2026 20

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Judith Dueck

Why was Canada conducting espionage in Cuba on behalf of the United States?

Canadian involvement in espionage against Cuba dates back to the early 1960s

13.10.2026 20

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Owen Schalk

The West’s war on inconvenient opinions

Treatment of emigre Russian journalist Leonid Ragozin is symptomatic of the Orwellian turn in liberal ‘democratic’ politics

12.10.2026 30

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Paul Robinson

Québec election shows urgent need for electoral reform across Canada

Aivalis: The distorted result offers another stark example of how first-past-the-post fails to reflect the will of voters

07.10.2026 20

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Christo Aivalis

The fight over AI data centres is a fight over local democracy

Municipalities are pushing back against the erosion of their autonomy, with data centres the most visible flashpoint

06.10.2026 10

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Nick Tsergas

Notwithstanding rights and freedoms

Section 33 abuses expose limitations of democracy in Canada

06.10.2026 10

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Cassandra Jeffery

Unregulated pregnancy centres cause lasting harms—we need transparency

UPCs cause harm through deception, disinformation, and other traumatizing strategies meant to turn people away from abortion

05.10.2026 30

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Ashna Hudani

Who is Carney’s industrial policy really for?

The LNG industry is an economic loser for Canadians that deepens our economy’s structural problems rather than resolving them

05.10.2026 30

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Nick Gottlieb

Campus antisemitism report is based on fundamentally flawed methodology

To make definitively broad generalizations grounded in a small, biased selection sample is an unacceptable error

30.09.2026 10

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

Digging a deeper hole: AI and critical minerals will not benefit most Canadians

Canada’s push for ‘AI sovereignty’ is entrenching dependence on extractive industries, reproducing a familiar set of harms

30.09.2026 20

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Caroline Stitt

Residential school denialism and the backlash against reconciliation

Read an excerpt from Sean Carleton and Niigaan Sinclair’s new edited collection, Truth Before Reconciliation

29.09.2026 40

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Sean Carleton

Carney promised to protect Canada from Trump. Why does his agenda look so much like Reaganomics?

28.09.2026 10

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Christopher Holcroft

My landlord is a billionaire. Why can’t I breathe in my apartment?

28.09.2026 40

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Tj Thorne

Stop the West Coast pipeline. Not even the oil companies are asking for it

28.09.2026 30

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Seniors For Climate Action Now!

Building movements for the long haul

28.09.2026 30

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Review By John Clarke

When private equity buys the home team

23.09.2026 60

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James Adair

Public ownership and booze: Raise a glass to the LCBO

21.09.2026 30

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Willy Marz

Carney’s airport privatization is a looming disaster: ‘Highway 407 of the skies’

16.09.2026 40

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Christo Aivalis

Trickle down hasn’t worked for the last 40 years. Why does Carney want to try it again?

16.09.2026 50

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Jared A. Walker And Silas Xuereb

Escaping the Canadian polycrisis

15.09.2026 70

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Dennis Raphael And Toba Bryant

Why did the AfD win in Saxony-Anhalt?

14.09.2026 20

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Anika Taschke

Canada’s role in the disastrous ‘War on Terror’ should not be celebrated

14.09.2026 40

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Owen Schalk

Whose violence counts as terrorism?

11.09.2026 20

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Morgan Duchesney

Congo is at the centre of a critical minerals race between China and the West

11.09.2026 50

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Judi Rever

Failure in Iran and the Potemkin option

10.09.2026 40

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John Duncan

Climate disruption and the nationalist turn

03.09.2026 30

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Gerard Toal

Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog

03.09.2026 30

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Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

The university is the crisis

02.09.2026 30

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Rinaldo Walcott

A room for the truth? The Nakba at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights

27.08.2026 30

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Dyala Hamzah

How not-for-profits make the housing crisis worse

27.08.2026 50

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Laurence Braun-Woodbury

Remembering the radical promise of Canada’s New Left

Bryan Palmer reviews a new collection tracing the lives and legacies of Sixties radicals

25.08.2026 30

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Bryan D. Palmer

Time is running out to demand the Carney government locate its elbows

As trade talks intensify, Canadians must resist further concessions and deeper integration with the United States

18.08.2026 40

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Christopher Holcroft

Putting truth and respect before reconciliation

How a recent editorial from Canada’s paper of record creates space for residential school denialism to take root

18.08.2026 70

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Sean Carleton

Transparent citizens, opaque state

Bill C-22 is a step toward merging corporate and state surveillance, exposing citizens while shielding power from scrutiny

17.08.2026 30

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Daniel Horen Greenford