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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
November 16
But when it comes to setting policy on climate change, as with healthcare, taxes, and, hopefully, even war, Trump doesn't hold the same dictatorial powers as authoritarian world leaders he admires. |
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Wayne MacPhail
November 16
A visit to Silicon Valley conjures up images of Dickensian-level poverty. |
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Rick Salutin
November 10
One key indicator of elitism is the notion that worthiness is related to education. I'm all for good public schools but an education makes you educated, not smart. That comes from somewhere else. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
November 9
The mass murder in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was a horrific crime. It was also horrifically predictable, and emblematic of the systemic problem we have with guns and violence in the United States. |
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Gerald Caplan
November 9
Despite campaign promises of peacekeeping, the Trudeau government has given up on Africa. |
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Linda McQuaig
November 9
Conservative and Liberal prime ministers have changed policies to tax the wealthy thanks to Kolber's persuasion |
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Rick Salutin
November 3
If free speech gets shut down it will always be the privileged who benefit because they have the power, the guns, the legal institutions, the money, to bend the final decisions to their ends. |
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Monia Mazigh
November 3
Quebec's shameful embrace of a niqab ban grew out of the identity politics that followed the failed 1995 referendum to separate from Canada |
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Murray Dobbin
November 3
Countries of the Global South and environmentalists are fighting developed countries oil giants being allowed in to climate change negotiations |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
November 2
Two months after Hurricane Maria hit, the island of Puerto Rico remains dark. There are people coming to the island, though: the disaster capitalists. |
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Marianela Ramos Capelo, Digital Freedom Update
November 1
The lack of transparency around NAFTA means undemocratic policies are being considered which could harm ordinary Canadians |
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Lois Ross
November 1
As 'The Lancet' releases shocking information on deaths cause by pollution, the continuing saga of Grassy Narrows’ mercury poisoning remains the shame of Canada |
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Rick Salutin
October 28
Taking care of big public programs, like health care and better CPP, means you need more revenues to fund them -- and that means more taxes. |
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Linda McQuaig
October 27
Why a billionaire American hedge fund manager should personally pay benefits of terminated Sears workers |
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Matthew Behrens
October 27
Ralph Goodale's series of new memos defy the absolute prohibition on torture. This is immoral and foolish, given how Canadian citizens have been treated and the deserved payouts they have received |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
October 26
Just over a year after attacking Khizr and Ghazala Khan, Trump has insulted and accused Gold Star widow Myeshia Johnson of lying. |
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Safia Lakhani, Pro Bono
October 26
There is a lot of push back against the report, which concluded discrimination and bias are experienced daily by racialized licencees |
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Rick Salutin
October 20
The U.S. president has revived the fear of a nuclear holocaust for a new generation. |
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Murray Dobbin
October 20
An updated list of loopholes that would be popular and right to close down. |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
October 19
Helen Reddy sang those words in 1972, providing an anthem to the women's movement. Forty-five years later, it could serve as the score to a movie documenting the abrupt demise of Harvey Weinstein. |
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Rick Salutin
October 14
As news outlets struggle to survive, the obvious solution is public funding |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
October 12
The corporate TV weather reporting aids and abets Trump's misinformation by consistently ignoring the role of climate change in this string of disasters. |
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Monia Mazigh
October 10
Many stories involving the West — including Guantanamo, the Nakba and the Algerian war — should be represented at CMHR |
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Murray Dobbin
October 6
Scientists have fought back against irrationalism. They also need to fight against corruption in their own ranks |
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Rick Salutin
October 6
America is known for embracing action and pragmatism versus "theory." But when an enemy actually strikes — hurricanes or mass murderers — it goes limp and turns to the Lord |
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Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
October 6
The immediate response must be: How do we prevent another massacre? But that is exactly the debate the Trump administration wants to avoid. |
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Gerald Caplan
October 4
Jagmeet Singh's self-confidence, pride, ambition, and egalitarianism have the potential to breathe new life into the NDP. |
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Linda McQuaig
October 4
We are dealing with more than the struggling family farmer or Mom-and-Pop convenience store owner |
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David Christopher, Digital Freedom Update
October 2
Digital rights and the government's proposed reforms to Bill C-51 are top of mind for many Canadians as the House of Commons resumes for its fall session. |
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Rick Salutin
September 30
The Ken Burns documentary has multiple perspectives and lays them out almost randomly, not bothering to reconcile them or even segue between. That jibes with my own experience at the time. |
