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Feb 21, 2017  Liberals tack right, jettison progressive policyTeam Trudeau have decided they have less to fear from the NDP profiting from the Liberal shift to the right, than from disgruntled Ontario Tories getting out in big numbers to vote against them. |
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Feb 17, 2017  Liberals' pension reforms fall woefully short for Canadian workersWhile changes to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) recently adopted by the current federal Liberal government offer some improvement, they do not go far enough. |
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Feb 17, 2017  What happened to liberal politicians? Sadly, they got smart.Smartness has subtly insinuated itself everywhere -- except, apparently, among voters. Smart won't ever replace fair; that's just stupid. |
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Feb 16, 2017  B.C. only province in Canada without poverty reduction planRedeye Low welfare rates, minimal childcare support and skyrocketing rents mean B.C. has one of the highest poverty rates in Canada. The B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition is organizing a week of action. |
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Feb 15, 2017  Black youth opposing gentrification and empowering communityTalking Radical Radio Kyturea Jones, Payton Ashe and Donntayia Jones talk about Halifax's North End Community Action Committee. |
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Feb 14, 2017  Leduc No. 1 and Alberta's unluckiest lucky dayDavid J. Climenhaga Maybe higher oil prices will be back soon, but the realities of the market, and the realities of the biosphere, won't be changed by the ideology of capitalism. |
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Feb 8, 2017  Adam Sneyd on 'Cotton,' globalization, commodities and clothing povertyface2face Adam talks about his book Cotton, its empire, commodities and politics, "clothing poverty" and anti-globalization and why we need to be concerned about how the world works. |
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Jan 31, 2017  Plastic and capitalism are killing ocean lifeYves Engler The world's oceans are set to have more plastic than fish by 2050. Based on externalizing costs and privatizing profits, 21st-century capitalism is turning our seas into a plastic blob. |
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Jan 29, 2017  Snow-Washing: Canada is the New Tax HavenTax advisers around the world are touting shell companies in Canada to help mask a client's assets and business dealings. |
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Jan 29, 2017 The health case for basic incomeAccording to UpStream, A well-designed basic income program would certainly simplify the complex labyrinth of programs and barriers to their access currently faced by people living in poverty. |
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Jan 27, 2017  Buffoon or manipulator, Trump rightfully inspires fearWhich Trump were you watching last weekend? The moronic mediocrity or the shrewd new president who dealt with an economic abyss that no one else over the past 30 years dared touch? |
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Jan 26, 2017  Trump and Trudeau's 'stealth privatization' will be at the taxpayer's expenseAlex Hemingway If Trump's infrastructure plan is a "privatization scam," what should we call ours? |
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Jan 25, 2017  We need to work less to live betterDavid Suzuki A lot needs to be done to reform our economic systems and to address critical issues like pollution and climate change. Reducing work hours is one way to make substantial gains. |
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Jan 24, 2017  Trumponomics unsettles Trudeau with threats to Canada-U.S. tradeWith the advent of Donald Trump, international trade has taken centre stage in U.S. politics. Trumponomics suggests that the rest of the world has been cheating the U.S. out of jobs and wealth. |
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Jan 24, 2017  Canadian marchers push back against Trump; politicians get on his trainKarl Nerenberg Trump's rhetoric about helping the forgotten people turns out to mean cutting taxes and regulations for the 1%. Canadian Conservatives embrace him while Liberals try to get along. |
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Jan 24, 2017  Others sure to suffer as Sudden Apocalyptic Deficit Syndrome strikes affluent, older, white males from SaskatchewanDavid J. Climenhaga With the economic case for austerity pretty well universally discredited, you have to look to the underlying motives of conservatives like Saskatchewan Premier Brad Wall. |
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Jan 22, 2017 Thirty three aerospace workers in Newfoundland and Labrador have been locked out since the holidays. Local unions are coming out in support.After nearly two years without a collective agreement, American-owned aerospace company D-J Composites locked out 33 Unifor members at its manufacturing plant in Gander, Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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Jan 20, 2017  The trouble with 'populist' billionaires is they serve the same old corporate interestsTrump's surprise election has alerted us to the depth of dissatisfaction with the status quo. But will Trump and his crowd get to define and shape that anti-status quo sentiment? |
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Jan 17, 2017  Rosa Luxemburg: A revolutionary for our timesHer scholarly work identified the links between capitalism, imperialism and militarism, but she expected more than recognition as a thinker. Rosa Luxemburg wanted to change the course of history. |
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Jan 17, 2017  Capitalism itself choosing sidesGreen Majority Radio Interview with Nathan Phillips from Boston University about "Sleeping Giants," a Twitter group that is pressuring brands advertising on hate sites like Brietbart. |
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Jan 17, 2017  The Canadian government should replace NAFTA, or scrap itCommon Frontiers Revision to NAFTA's terms must have at its core the objective establishment of fair trade, not free trade, and economic relations based on social justice, sovereignty and sustainable development. |
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Jan 17, 2017  The Internet's oldest 'sharing economy'Penney Kome The Hunger Site is a pioneer in globalized non-profit trade with grassroots crafts and fashions. |
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Jan 12, 2017  Trump's proven that free trade deals can be rewritten. So let's write better ones.If Trump can rewrite international economic treaties on the strength of a few tweets, then we can do the same thing -- but only if we build a political movement with the same confidence and power. |
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Jan 12, 2017  B.C. saw 73,000 new jobs created in 2016, but this is not a good news storySeth Klein Iglika Ivanova The headline-making job creation numbers mask large regional disparities across the province. Outside Metro Vancouver and Greater Victoria, B.C.'s jobs story is nothing to brag about. |
