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Jun 23, 2017

Ten possible explanations for the B.C. Liberals' colossal policy flip-flop

Sarah Miller

After the B.C. Liberals' bizarre throne speech yesterday -- which consisted of mostly ideas stolen from the NDP platform -- let's look at a few possible explanations for this sudden change of heart.

Columnists

Jul 1, 2016

Canada needs to find a left-wing alternative to right-wing populism

Rick Salutin

Can the Left counter the Right's populist movement with one of its own? Maybe. The question is how says Rick Salutin.

Columnists

Jan 6, 2015

A number is never just a number: Political divides

Hennessy's Index

Canadians who identify as right or left on the political spectrum are more likely to be interested in politics, according to a recent survey. Here's how those political divisions stack up.

Columnists

May 17, 2013

Peter Worthington and the blurry divisions between left and right

Rick Salutin

I'll miss Peter Worthington, Canada's archetypal right-wing journalist, who died this week at 86. I say that without irony or subtext. I'll just miss him.

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Mar 18, 2013

Hugo Chavez and the history of hostile interventions against left-wing governments

Gerry Caplan

It is a phenomenon rarely noted that virtually every left-wing government since the Second World War, almost all of them elected, has faced vicious, sometimes violent, obstruction by its enemies.

Columnists

Jul 27, 2012

Alexander Cockburn's journalism from the margins

Rick Salutin

I've spent recent days on an island north of Huntsville pondering the death from cancer, at 71, of the Irish-American left-wing journalist Alexander Cockburn.

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