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'Peg Property & Development Committee Approving another 'burn | The Analyst said... Oops. Should be 'burb. Freudian slips happen! in

Why did Judy Wasylycia-leis lose the mayoral race? | Aristotleded24 said... The web page does not work. in

NDP Socialist Caucus Presents Spring 2013 Edition of Turn Left/Virez a gauche | kropotkin1951 said... Nice painting of Queneesh in the K'ómoks First Nation's territory. Whose art work is that? in

Prositution chic.....well....why not? | Catchfire said... I realize that there is a lot of appetite to criticize Murphy's stance on sex work legalization...

Why can't you do your taxes quickly and for free? | Fidel said... Apparently UFile s/w is free for families whose incomes are $20,000 or less. NETFILE or print...

Unfit for work: the startling rise of disability in America | 6079_Smith_W said... Interesting; I like the doctor's rule of thumb, though I expect he might amend it for degrees that...

Budget 2013: Canadian International Development Agency to merge with Foreign Affairs Department | onlinediscountanvils said... Federal budget expected to fold CIDA into Foreign AffairsQuote:The independence of the Canadian...

American Democrats Will Know: Who The NDP Are & What Our History Is | knownothing said... Thanks for typing out Mulcair's speech. Do you have the rest of it? in

Martha Hall Findlay: Class denialist | Debater said... The consensus among Liberal Party members and journalists covering the debate today was that Martha...

How the Left has won | KenS said... huh, sleep walking to the workers paradise. does the New Jerusalem have therapists for...

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Ivany commission reports on Nova Scotia's progressive economic future | May 20 2013 | Ralph Surette | The Ivany commission on the "new economy" has written up what it heard on the road in an interim report. In so doing, it has cleared much underbrush and roughed out a path forward.

Irish farmers raise volume on opposition to Canadian imports in CETA | May 20 2013 | Stuart Trew | The Irish Farmers Association has released its strongest statement to date opposed to Canadian demands for higher beef and pork quotas in the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement.

Popular Economics is.... (A Brief Introduction) | May 19 2013 | chris cavanagh | Spelling out some parameters of popular economics: popular education, critical literacy/history, debunking, visioning and organizing.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The world has never been richer. So why are so many still poor? | May 13 2013 | Gerry Caplan | When an American graduate student uncovered errors in Reinhart and Rogoff's study upholding the merits of austerity, many thought its adherents would eat some crow. The laugh, as usual, remains on us.

No fun? No point: Vancouver's political boredom | May 13 2013 | Michael Stewart | Over the last two weeks, Vancouver's downtown has witnessed an unprecedented rash of closures or evictions. In response, the city has adopted a new defensive pose: embarrassment and boredom.

B.C. election: More vision needed for clean, green jobs | May 13 2013 | Andrew MacLeod | While the BC Liberals have stepped away from envisioning a greener economy, the NDP is saying little to fill the void, according to observers.

The contemporary Canadian sales epic of Mr. Bitumen | May 10 2013 | Rick Salutin | Our governments have become largely a sales force, trooping to Washington to beg the U.S. to buy our oil and build pipelines for it. Resources Minister Joe Oliver is the Willy Loman of this drama.

Canadian, U.S. responses to WTO decision in Green Energy Act case | May 10 2013 | Stuart Trew | As expected, people aren't very happy with the WTO decision this week reaffirming the illegality (under global trade rules) of local content requirements in the Ontario Green Energy Act.

Reality-check on B.C. government spending: Is the overspending fear-mongering justified? | May 10 2013 | Iglika Ivanova | Both main parties in this election campaign are accusing the other of being big spenders. But is too much of the public debate around this election focused on reducing the size of government?

Child poverty rampant in Canadian cities | May 9 2013 | Iglika Ivanova | The story of child poverty in Canada is very much an urban story. One out of every 10 children living in urban areas was poor in 2010, compared to one in 20 children living in non-urban areas.