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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| We have all been so conditioned by constant repetition of the nauseating nostrums of neoliberalism that it’s hard to think coherently any more. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| According to some, austerity is supposed to promote growth, but the IMF team shows the inequality increases that result from austerity feed back into slower growth. |
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News
Teuila Fuatai
| Library workers prepare for a looming strike deadline on Monday May 2 as key issues like job security and funding are negotiated this weekend. Teuila Fuatai spoke with two workers about the situation. |
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Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| In the city of Flint, lead-poisoned water has been piped into homes and offices since 2014, causing widespread illness and potentially permanent brain damage among its youngest residents. |
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Columnists
June Chua
| The stories we tell are often a reflection of how we survive as humans and that idea is no more evident than in Arabian Nights, the sprawling epic on austerity by Portugal's Miguel Gomes. |
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Blog
Stephen Kimber
| Nova Scotia premier Stephen McNeil says Nova Scotia's 75,000 public sector workers are welcome to bargain collectively -- so long as they don't expect to negotiate wages. |
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Columnists
Ole Hendrickson
| Government austerity is an oxymoron. The responsibility of governments is to engage with what is happening in the external world and act as initiators of change. |
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Blog
Louis-Philippe Rochon
| Canada's current recession would have been avoided had Stephen Harper abandoned austerity in favour of a growth-oriented fiscal expansionary policy. Bottom line: this is a Harper recession. |
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Blog
Eric Pineault
| Disorganization, demobilization, and marginalization are the social impacts of the austerity economic experiment. Eric Pineault examines the reality of austerity budgets. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| Both social democratic and neoliberal market economists defend austerity, but the reasoning behind the policy is not strong enough to explain why the doctrinaire approach was adopted. So who benefits? |
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Blog
Michal Rozworski
| This budget is another in a series of unspectacular austerity budgets. Michal Rozworski looks at the election year budget as a continuity of slow-motion austerity past, present and future. |
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Blog
Karl Nerenberg
| The House of Commons returns after a two-week break. There will be a (late) budget, questions arising out of the Duffy trial, sale of the Wheat Board and much more. |
