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Alberta separatism’s dangerous new allies

Alberta separatism’s dangerous new allies

A century-old grievance meets a darker political current

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Kim Wilson

The case for reclaiming Canada’s pension trillions

The case for reclaiming Canada’s pension trillions

Vast public savings could build a resilient low-carbon economy—if pension governance were opened to democratic control

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Nick Gottlieb

The high price of Ottawa’s naval ambitions

The high price of Ottawa’s naval ambitions

A fleet of submarines will do little to address the crises Canadians actually face

13.07.2026 10

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Alexander Hill

Nahla Abdo: the Nakba is not an error in curation

Nahla Abdo: the Nakba is not an error in curation

Political interference has no place in determining how Palestinian history is presented in Canada’s national museum

09.07.2026 7

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Nahla Abdo

Carney won’t support Cuba against US aggression, so we must

Carney won’t support Cuba against US aggression, so we must

Government silence won’t help Cuba. Grassroots solidarity can

09.07.2026 10

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Owen Schalk

The war on the poor is escalating

The war on the poor is escalating

Homelessness and poverty are the predictable products of austerity, precarious work, and a housing system built for profit

06.07.2026 20

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John Clarke

Palestinian history is not up for debate

The backlash against a landmark national museum exhibition on the Nakba exposes an enduring effort to silence Palestinian voices

02.07.2026 30

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Owen Schalk

Under Carney, is Medicare still a Canadian value?

American dark money-backed think tanks are applauding the PM’s hands-off approach to Alberta’s health care privatization

02.07.2026 20

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Christopher Holcroft

Canada’s dangerous nuclear gamble

The federal government’s new nuclear strategy promises energy security, but will deliver high costs and new vulnerabilities

01.07.2026 20

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Mark Winfield

Why is the Carney government cozying up to pesticide companies?

New powers in Bill C-30 would allow Ottawa to override scientific decisions on pesticides in the name of ‘food security’

29.06.2026 10

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Sarah Rotz

Carney’s condo bailout reveals the limits of Liberal housing policy

The federal government is trying to expand affordability without reducing property values

26.06.2026 10

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Laurence Braun-Woodbury

Keir Starmer and the crisis of Britain’s extreme centre

The UK’s revolving door of prime ministers reflects the exhaustion of a political and economic system that has run out of ideas

25.06.2026 30

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Paul Robinson

Chris Hedges: The joke is on us

The retreat into satirical attacks on Trump and his base fuels the solidification of fascism

24.06.2026 30

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Chris Hedges

Walking the tightrope under siege: Cuba’s economic reforms and the defence of socialist sovereignty

Cuba’s future need not be reduced to a choice between bureaucratic centralization and private capital accumulation

23.06.2026 20

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Isaac Saney

Human origins destroy core fascist mythology

How prehistory challenges fascist myths of purity, hierarchy, and identity

22.06.2026 20

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Yann Perreau

Carney says the war against Iran was ‘worth it.’ He’s wrong

The prime minister’s justification for the war collapses under scrutiny

19.06.2026 10

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Ted Snider

Prime Minister Carney must halt the legislated extinction of First Nations

Liberals have the power to pass Bill S-2 as amended by the Senate before the House rises for the summer, but will they?

16.06.2026 10

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Pam Palmater

Reckoning with new politics of the Canadian right

An excerpt from a new collection examining the roots of far-right politics in Canada and the movements resisting its rise

15.06.2026 20

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Miriam Edelson

The multiplying Persian elephants

An inability to project power capably may signal the beginning of the end of the United States as the global military hegemon

11.06.2026 20

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Michael F. Duggan

Drawing the line against autocracy

Doug Ford’s government is turning Ontario schools into laboratories of conformity and civic obedience

10.06.2026 20

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Henry A. Giroux

Regulating social media is climate policy

It is time we started talking about social media platforms and the amplification of their harms by Big Tech and AI companies

09.06.2026 20

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Ricardo grinspun

Trump’s new tariffs expose a domestic problem Canada keeps deflecting

Ottawa treats forced labour as a foreign problem. The UN says it starts at home

08.06.2026 20

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Elliot Goodell Ugalde

What Canadian cities can learn from Zohran Mamdani’s housing plan

The strategy combines public investment, tenant protections, and non-market housing at a scale rarely seen in North America

05.06.2026 20

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Laurence Braun-Woodbury

Media academics to blame in part for our news mess

Corporate donations to universities might help to explain a lack of critical media research

04.06.2026 30

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Marc Edge

Who will defend the public university?

Universities face mounting political, economic, and ecological pressures. The harder question is who will challenge them

04.06.2026 30

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Laurie Adkin

Cutting CRA experts won’t save money. It will leave billions behind

From enforcing tax fairness to improving service delivery, the CRA needs more resources—not staffing reductions

02.06.2026 20

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Sean Oreilly

‘Building Canada Strong’ needs sectoral bargaining and standards

Workers’ rights take the back seat in the rush to build

01.06.2026 20

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Fred Wilson

The ‘we’ of anti-Zionism

Professor Mark Libin on why the struggle over anti-Zionism has become a struggle over who gets to define antisemitism

28.05.2026 20

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Mark Libin

Where the truth lies

Clarke: We must learn to think for ourselves and reject facile binary logic in our approach to political analysis

28.05.2026 20

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John Clarke

Inside Toronto’s growing tenant revolt

Tenant movements are emerging as one of the most significant movements of our era

25.05.2026 20

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Ken Theobald

True lies across the water

The real story behind the murder charge against former Cuban President Raúl Castro

23.05.2026 20

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Stephen Kimber

Alberta separatists think their referendum pitch is about democracy. It’s not

Calls for Alberta independence rest on a profound erasure of treaty obligations and Indigenous self-determination

21.05.2026 20

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Eric Strikwerda

Mark Carney exposes the usually hidden fangs of capitalism

This government’s embrace of deregulation and extraction shows how deeply profit-driven assumptions shape public life

19.05.2026 20

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Harry Glasbeek

Pharmacare on the ropes

The battle over universal drug coverage is really a battle to preserve what’s left of our withering social safety net

19.05.2026 20

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Ken Collier

Mark Carney is exposing the usually hidden fangs of capitalism

This government’s embrace of deregulation and extraction is revealing how deeply capitalist assumptions shape public life

19.05.2026 30

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Harry Glasbeek

Senate report makes case to expand newspaper subsidies to Big Telecom

Some of Canada’s most profitable companies could soon get billions in public money

18.05.2026 30

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Marc Edge

The collapse—and return—of Toronto’s condo investor

How investor mania broke Toronto’s condo market, and why big money is back

17.05.2026 30

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Laurence Braun-Woodbury

A new reign of climate chaos

Capitalism is pushing humanity beyond the ecological limits that made civilization possible

15.05.2026 50

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Ian Angus

The Palestinian Nakba: Is truth and reconciliation possible?

For Palestinians, preserving our stories, our ways of being, and our identities are all part of resistance through memory

15.05.2026 30

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Ahmad Moussa

British Columbia’s utility wild west

Private submetering companies are exploiting regulatory gaps and passing inflated costs onto already stretched tenants

13.05.2026 20

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Eric Wilkinson

How Louise Arbour helped shield Paul Kagame from justice

Canada’s new governor general helped cement the impunity of Rwanda’s leader, one of the worst criminals in African history

11.05.2026 20

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Judi Rever

The revolution will not be made on Canva

How ‘statement socialism’ is hollowing out the Canadian left—and what it would take to rebuild real political power

07.05.2026 30

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James Adair

Can the new Toronto Tenant Union change the tired housing debate?

Tenants are organizing to challenge a housing system built for landlords and investors

06.05.2026 40

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Ricardo Tranjan

Don’t call it a sovereign wealth fund

Carney’s ‘Canada Strong Fund’ is poised to divert infrastructure and development spending to his friends in the private sector

05.05.2026 20

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James Hardwick

Recognition is not power: the battle for the soul of McGill

The university reportedly spent $1 million on efforts to resist unionization

05.05.2026 30

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Gavin sewell

Is China capitalist or socialist?

The long transition shaping China’s economic experiment

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Owen Schalk

Public subsidies essential to boosting media ecosystem, new study finds

International research contradicts critics of subsidies who swarmed MPs last week

29.04.2026 30

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Marc Edge

Why Ric Esther Bienstock’s ‘Speechless’ left me speechless

A polemic disguised as inquiry into campus free speech wars

29.04.2026 40

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Rinaldo Walcott

Carney’s gambit: Atlanticism with Canadian characteristics

The PM talked of sovereignty in Davos. But back in Washington’s orbit, Canada’s foreign policy remains firmly constrained

28.04.2026 40

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Peter mcfarlane

Who is Ontario’s ‘food independence’ really for?

New agri-food legislation misdiagnoses land and food issues in the North

27.04.2026 30

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Sarah Rotz