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Arts & Culture | Power grab: Examining gender dynamics through prose and allegory | May 24 2013 | Yutaka Dirks | '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.

Politics in Canada | 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!

Arts & Culture | 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.

Economy | 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.

Economy | Rent: It's a racket | May 23 2013 | Michael Stewart | The Vancouver Rent Assembly, "A gathering of renters in a time of siege," examines and analyzes the concept and legitimacy of rent.

Elections | 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.

Environment | Politics in Canada | Harper spins Canadian mining in Peru | May 23 2013 | Brent Patterson | The Council of Canadians and the Blue Planet Project stands with the more than 200 communities and civil society organizations in Peru who are demanding an end to destructive mining practices.

Environment | March against Monsanto: Global day of action to 'take back the food supply' | May 23 2013 | Lauren McCauley | Tens of thousands of activists are uniting in a global day of action to "take back the food supply," in a worldwide March Against Monsanto Saturday.

Environment | After the genocide trial, the long struggle for justice continues in Guatemala | May 23 2013 | Grahame Russell | Notwithstanding the intervention of the Constitutional Court, the genocide trial against former dictator Rios Montt is worthy of a Nobel Peace Prize.

Labour | 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.

Politics in Canada | '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.

Politics in Canada | Six key points for understanding Harper's Senate scandal | May 23 2013 | Karl Nerenberg | What did Harper know and when did he know it? Our parliamentary reporter looks at this and five other key points in the growing Senate expense scandal.

US Politics | 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.

Indigenous Rights | Activist Communique: Power in the name -- the reclaiming of PKOLS (Mount Douglas) | May 22 2013 | Krystalline Kraus | On May 22 at 5 p.m., a powerful renaming ceremony will take place in British Columbia. Name and Blood both hold important power of identity for First Nations communities.