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The context missing from the CMHR Nakba debate

The context missing from the CMHR Nakba debate

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

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Canadian Dimension

Mark Libin

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

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

previous day 10

Canadian Dimension

Bianca Mugyenyi

New Brunswick’s energy contradictions

New Brunswick’s energy contradictions

The province is expanding fossil fuel generation while weakening renewables incentives

13.08.2026 10

Canadian Dimension

Andrew Nurse

For Iranian Kurds, war is not liberation

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 10

Canadian Dimension

Diary Marif

Ottawa hastens its retreat from online regulation

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 10

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Marc Edge

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

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 30

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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 30

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Dennis Pilon

Why is Spain in Africa?

Perspectives on Ceuta’s humanitarian crisis

04.08.2026 10

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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 10

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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 30

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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 10

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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 30

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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 20

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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 10

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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 10

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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 20

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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 30

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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 10

Canadian Dimension

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 20

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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 20

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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 20

Canadian Dimension

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 30

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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 20

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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 30

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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

06.07.2026 40

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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 40

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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 30

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 20

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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 30

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 40

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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 30

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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 40

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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 50

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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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 40

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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 30

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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 30

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Stephen Kimber