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Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| Canada's national debt grew after the Second World War, but the economy grew faster. With low borrowing costs, we're well positioned to run up debts that put Canadians back to work. |
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Blog
David McDonald
| No public service will ever be perfect, but a system of public services without the distraction of profits is our best security against the next crisis that will inevitably come our way. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| In the name of "we can't afford it," ordinary citizens in the U.S. and Canada have been cheated out of the services they need to live healthy lives. |
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Columnists
Linda McQuaig
| Among Doug Ford's extensive cutbacks -- aimed at reducing the deficit without tapping the corporate elite for more tax revenues -- are a dizzying array of cuts to our public health-care system. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Alberta's once again the poor little rich kid of Confederation, crying poverty, throwing its weight around, and careering from knee-jerk austerity to pre-election profligacy. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| What are the Canadian links to the social uprising in Chile that has claimed at least 18 lives over the past seven days? |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| The UCP's voodoo tax-cut economics will have to be paid for with severe cuts to public services. Promised revenue increases will never appear. There's no reason Alberta will be different. |
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Podcast
Victoria Fenner
| John Clarke, recently retired co-founder of Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, traveled to Alberta to help strategize against the UCP agenda. Listen to a talk he gave on March 27, 2019. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| The Canadian Yellow Vest movement targets the carbon tax and "illegal" immigration, rather than reflecting the anti-austerity demands resonating in France. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Those of us who mostly observe and comment on the current crisis, or suite of crises, owe a debt to France's gilets jaunes, the yellow vests. They're clarifiers. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| The complaints of the yellow-jacketed protesters in France encompass the entire traditional left-wing indictment of the neoliberal austerity program the Canadian right advocates. |
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Podcast
Scott Neigh
| Sandi Mowat, president of the Manitoba Nurses Union, talks about mobilizing against health-care cuts and in defence of patient care. |
