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Whose violence counts as terrorism?

Whose violence counts as terrorism?

Outrage over the CBC’s description of 9/11 obscures the selective way Western governments and media define political violence

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Morgan Duchesney

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

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

The US and China want Congo’s minerals. Kinshasa should demand peace in return

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Judi Rever

Failure in Iran and the Potemkin option

Failure in Iran and the Potemkin option

Trump wants to turn strategic failure in Iran into the appearance of victory

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John Duncan

Climate disruption and the nationalist turn

Climate disruption and the nationalist turn

The good, the bad, and the ugly pathways shaping how states can respond to a shared planetary crisis

03.09.2026 10

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Gerard Toal

Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog

Canada protects mining investors while scrapping its corporate accountability watchdog

Ecuadorians have repeatedly rejected investor-state arbitration. Canada’s new trade deal would bring it back

03.09.2026 10

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Arturo Ezquerro-Cañete

The university is the crisis

The university is the crisis

Jason Arday’s death underscores how the neoliberal university rewards conformity and resists transformation

02.09.2026 10

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Rinaldo Walcott

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

This modest exhibit has become a battleground over how the Nakba—and Palestinian history—can be represented in Canada

27.08.2026 10

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Dyala Hamzah

How not-for-profits make the housing crisis worse

Non-profits were meant to supplement public services. Now they replace them on the cheap, at a cost to workers and communities

27.08.2026 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 10

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Daniel Horen Greenford

The context missing from the CMHR Nakba debate

Understanding the Nakba requires confronting the political ideas and ambitions that made Palestinian dispossession possible

16.08.2026 30

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Mark Libin

Carney’s CEO summit could put public assets on the table

The world’s largest investors are coming to Toronto, with airports and other public infrastructure potentially up for grabs

15.08.2026 20

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Bianca Mugyenyi

New Brunswick’s energy contradictions

The province is expanding fossil fuel generation while weakening renewables incentives

13.08.2026 30

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Andrew Nurse

For Iranian Kurds, war is not liberation

Opposed to Iran’s regime but wary of Washington, Kurdish communities are facing attacks at home and growing hostility abroad

10.08.2026 30

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Diary Marif

Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation

Feds plan to instead throw more taxpayer dollars at a media clamoring for increased subsidies

10.08.2026 40

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Marc Edge

Europe’s summer is a preview of what’s coming

Deadly heat, wildfires, and drought are a preview of the escalating catastrophe to come

10.08.2026 40

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Christopher Logstrup

Canada’s ultra-rich are no friends of democracy

Tobi Lütke’s remarks reflect a long tradition of elite hostility to democratic equality

05.08.2026 40

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Dennis Pilon

Why is Spain in Africa?

Perspectives on Ceuta’s humanitarian crisis

04.08.2026 20

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Nashwa Lina Khan

How social media invented the World Cup’s villain

Algorithmic outrage recast Argentina as football’s villain, overshadowing FIFA’s rank hypocrisy and greed

31.07.2026 30

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Rob Rolfe

The new rules of Carney’s carve-out economy

This government’s economic agenda is being built on a growing architecture of legal exceptions and deregulation

30.07.2026 40

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Shiri Pasternak

Has Iran given new life to the Ukraine war?

A new strategic narrative is encouraging escalation over negotiation

29.07.2026 20

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Paul Robinson

Defying despair in the face of climate catastrophe

We must push back against ideological containment that blocks the development of rebellious thinking and movements of resistance

29.07.2026 40

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John Clarke

Buying access is not the same as implementing treaty rights

The federal government still confuses economic inclusion with treaty implementation

28.07.2026 30

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Joshua W.j. Brown

Radio workers hope to resurrect stations axed by Big Media

Co-op ownership might prove a more sustainable model than corporate rapaciousness

27.07.2026 30

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Marc Edge

Drawing the line on surveillance pricing

Personalized grocery pricing is not yet widespread in Canada, giving governments a chance to act before it becomes entrenched

27.07.2026 30

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Sarah-Louise Ruder

The postal bargaining round unlike any other

A look back at the unprecedented 2024-26 Canada Post negotiations—and the lessons CUPW should take from them

23.07.2026 30

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Geoff Bickerton

The Ontario wildfires and Doug Ford’s record on climate change

A capstone on a portrait of policy failure

22.07.2026 40

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Mark Winfield

A new great game for Uzbekistan’s critical minerals

Privatization and diplomacy are drawing Tashkent closer to Washington, but at what cost?

21.07.2026 30

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Lital Khaikin

Mexico is solving its housing crisis. Why aren’t we?

Claudia Sheinbaum’s reversal of decades of market-driven housing policy offers an important lesson for Canada

20.07.2026 30

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Laurence Braun-Woodbury

Alberta separatism’s dangerous new allies

A century-old grievance meets a darker political current

17.07.2026 30

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Kim Wilson

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

15.07.2026 30

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Nick Gottlieb

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 40

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Alexander Hill

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 30

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Nahla Abdo

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

Government silence won’t help Cuba. Grassroots solidarity can

09.07.2026 40

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Owen Schalk

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

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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

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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 50

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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 60

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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 40

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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 40

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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 60

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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 50

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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 50

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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 40

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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 30

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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 40

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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 50

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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 50

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Michael F. Duggan