Social spaces in Vancouver: Changing the conversation | May 23 2013 | Tania Ehret | With Vancouver's condo-friendly landlords seeing dollar signs and not the public good, the fight for community venues seems much more like class war.

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Wildrose deftly defuses robo-call crisis while federal Cons suffer Scotch verdict | May 24 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | The way they dealt with these superficially similar cases, you'd almost think the Harper Conservatives in Ottawa were the farm team, and the Wildrose Party in Alberta were the pros!
Lessons from the 2013 B.C. Election: What's a progressive research institute to do? | May 23 2013 | Seth Klein | Here are a few of the initial lessons I draw from the election, and what it means for a progressive research institute like the CCPA -- because I do think our work matters, more than ever.
'Follow Sweden' on health care: Did the Fraser Institute finally get it right? | May 23 2013 | Adrienne Silnicki | The Fraser Institute claims to examine the Swedish health-care system and in the end concludes that Canada should scrap the Canada Health Act and privatize, privatize, privatize.
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Local, what's in a word?
May 22 2013 | The recent media and political focus on the definition of local have helped to launch an important dialogue.
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Give me spots on my apples, but leave me the birds and the bees!
May 20 2013 | The European Union banned three pesticides (Imidacloprid, Clothianidin and Thiamethoxam) to protect rapidly declining bee populations.
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Take action: Support garment workers in Bangladesh
May 16 2013 | Take action and show solidarity with these workers by sending a message to Bangladesh's Prime Minister and the Minister for Labour and Employment.
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Under Obama administration, the world is a battlefield | May 23 2013 | Amy Goodman | Close to 12 years later, the 2001 AUMF act remains in force, giving the Obama administration and the Pentagon carte blanche to wage war, to occupy nations and to kill people with drones.
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The resilience of the West? | May 22 2013 | Thomas Ponniah | We have perpetually heard various proclamations about the inevitable collapse of Western domination since the end of World War I. Will they continue to be disproven? If so, why?
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Capitalists win, all others lose in B.C. election | May 21 2013 | Duncan Cameron | The capitalists won the B.C. election. Extractive industries make big profits in the province, and have bigger plans for its future.
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Wildrose deftly defuses robo-call crisis while federal Cons suffer Scotch verdict | May 24 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | The way they dealt with these superficially similar cases, you'd almost think the Harper Conservatives in Ottawa were the farm team, and the Wildrose Party in Alberta were the pros!
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Viva Con! Hasta la Victoria Siempre con Conrad – putting the 'cross' back in Crossharbour! | May 23 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | So irascible has become Lord Black's incessant columnizing that one keeps expecting him to heap vitriol on restaurants too dimly lit to read the menu.
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'Follow Sweden' on health care: Did the Fraser Institute finally get it right? | May 23 2013 | Adrienne Silnicki | The Fraser Institute claims to examine the Swedish health-care system and in the end concludes that Canada should scrap the Canada Health Act and privatize, privatize, privatize.
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Briefing from the frontlines of resistance to the TPP negotiations in Lima, Peru | May 23 2013 | Stuart Trew | On May 17, the Council of Canadians hosted a live broadcast from Lima where trade justice activists were attending a 17th round of Trans-Pacific Partnership negotiations that continue in the Peru.
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May 24 2013
Power grab: Examining gender dynamics through prose and allegory
'How to Get Along With Women' by Elisabeth de Mariaffi is a sharp and inventive romp through the intertwining aspects of power, identity and sexuality in relationships in supremely real backdrops.
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Excerpt: Historical reformers: Why and how democratic institutions change
'Wrestling with Democracy' by Dennis Pilon provides a historical and comparative look at electoral reform (or lack thereof) of western industrialized countries over the past century.
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May 9 2013
Review: From hell and back: Searching for self at the crossroads of social change
Night Town by Cathi Bond is a coming-of-age story of a young woman, and a shifting nation, growing up in the rapidly changing social fabric of 1970s Toronto and searching for acceptance and progress.

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Colonial war and judicial murder in the colony of Vancouver Island
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South Africa After Marikana: Building Solidarity with South African Miners
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May 25 2013 - 1:30pm
Songs of Love, Hope, and Optimism
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May 24 2013 - 7:00am
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May 25 2013 - 8:00am
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Yesterday, Mike Duffy stepped down from the Conservative caucus, but remains a sitting independent Senator. Meanwhile, the Prime Minister's Office has stated that Stephen Harper has "full confidence" in Chief-of-Staff Nigel Wright, who apparently secretly wrote a personal cheque to help Duffy pay back his debts. Clearly, there are still many questions that need to be answered. 

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