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Activist Communique: Toronto - the Big Smoke's Mayor is a Big Crack Smoking Joke | May 18 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | Our mayor is accused of smoking crack. I'm not joking.
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Letters to Ryan Leef | May 18 2013 | Linda Leon is an artist living in whitehorse | Smoke, mirrors and policy on climate change.
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Adventures on the eBook Frontier - Dispatch 27 | May 18 2013 | Cathi Bond, Gerald Hannon | Holey Moley - Gay Activist Gerald Hannon Reviewed my Novel Night Town
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Parents, Families and Friends of Lesbians and Gays continue the fight against homophobia, transphobia online and in schools | May 18 2013 | John Bonnar | One way of dealing with the problem is by going into schools and talking with students about bullying and homophobia.
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Chevron calls for strong investor rights chapter in U.S.-EU trade deal | May 17 2013 | Stuart Trew | U.S. energy giant Chevron is encouraging the U.S. to pursue a strong NAFTA-like investment chapter and investor-state dispute settlement process in the proposed U.S.-EU trade deal.
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CBC journalist Charles Rusnell: Slaying Alberta's Tory dragon, one scandal at a time … | May 17 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | If CBC Edmonton investigative reporter Charles Rusnell were a police officer, he'd be the kind of cop who'd ticket the chief's car at a funeral.
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Cultural exception and state funding for the Quebec film industry | May 17 2013 | Guillaume Hebert | In the past, Québec has developed policy to support the cultural scene in the name of the principle of cultural exception. In the last year, some have put this approach into question entirely.
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Fair Deal campaign launched to stop TPP from changing copyright laws | May 17 2013 | Stuart Trew | The Council of Canadians is part of a new global Fair Deal coalition which wants copyright rules taken out of the 12-country Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement.
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Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory: Lessons from B.C. for NDPers everywhere | May 16 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | Pretty obviously, thanks to Tuesday's B.C. election and the vote last year in Alberta, we have reached a moment of reckoning for Canada's pollsters.
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L'affaire Duffy: Will Harper be held to account? | May 16 2013 | Karl Nerenberg | The whole affair, which has crept right up to the Prime Minister's door, is starting to look like a frantic and improvised cover-up operation.
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Update on Building Resistance Tour about fracking and PTP | May 16 2013 | Maryam Adrangi | Since my last post on Saturday, we have made our way along the route of the Pacific Trails Pipeline, making presentations in both Smithers and Burns Lake.
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Review: Tomorrow We're All Going to the Harvest -- Temporary foreign workers in Canada | May 16 2013 | Daniel Tseghay | Over the past decade, the Canadian economy has become increasingly dependent upon exploited temporary foreign workers, in large part through the Canadian government’s Seasonal Agricultural Worker Prog
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Who leaked the Alberta government's response to AUPE's complaint, and why? | May 15 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | It is reasonable to conclude that the leak of the Alberta government's response to a formal union complaint was a gesture of bad faith. It is possible to conclude it was an act of sabotage.
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New mining royalties in Quebec | May 15 2013 | Bertrand Schepper, Laura Handal | On Monday, the Parti québécois government announced a new mining royalty regime. Its hybrid proposal combines aspects from two types of royalty systems: profit-based and ad valorem royalties.
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Five lessons -- real and imagined -- from B.C.'s election results | May 15 2013 | David Taub Bancroft | I believe that five lessons -- real, imagined, and not-quite-clear -- will be gleaned from the BC Liberal upset victory.
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Bean leaves, bedbugs and biomimicry | May 15 2013 | David Suzuki | Pesticides may offer quick, easy and effective methods for dealing with pests, but they come with all kinds of problems. Maybe we can learn some lessons from nature and our ancestors.
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Hands off dairy, say farmers across several Trans-Pacific Partnership countries | May 15 2013 | Stuart Trew | This week, the Citizens Trade Campaign reported that farmers and labour groups across the Pacific region are demanding that dairy be taken out of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement altogether.
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Eby and Heyman offer answers to NDP heartbreak | May 15 2013 | Michael Stewart | What happened to the B.C. NDP? Last night, two monumentally impressive successes in a night of failure and defeat offer some explanation: the key riding wins of David Eby and George Heyman.
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Activist Communique: Toronto's Seedy Side | May 15 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | Seeds were joyfully planted and tended to at both the best of times and the worst of times.
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Democracy, Alberta-style: Voters can have any policy they want, as long as it's Conservative | May 14 2013 | David J. Climenhaga | The Assurance for Students Act? If we lived in less Orwellian times, this would probably be called the Assurance for Alison Redford Act.