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Working together to build a strong progressive politics
Niki Ashton | As progressives, we must find ways to build solidarity at home and around the world, work with movements and activists who share our values and put forward a bold vision for our collective future.
Columnists
U.S. President Joe Biden. Image credit: Gage Skidmore/Flickr
Pandemic reveals dark side of U.S. neoliberalism
Duncan Cameron | At the G7 heads of government meeting last week, U.S. President Joe Biden rejected a plan to share vaccines with poorer nations. Is that what "America is back" is supposed to mean?
Columnists
Prime Minister Trudeau participates in the Côté Gold Project groundbreaking ceremony with Premier of Ontario Doug Ford, September 2020. Image credit: Adam Scotti/PMO
Trudeau caters to conservative premiers in pursuit of failed neoliberal policies
Duncan Cameron | Prior to the pandemic, Justin Trudeau was trying to make the Canadian federation work by encouraging provincial autonomy. But the "leave it to the provinces" policy is not working.
Columnists
U.S. Capitol Hill riot. Image credit: Marco Verch Professional Photographer/Flickr
Tracing the toxic roots of the Capitol attack
Bill Blaikie | Some historical observations about how America arrived at this terribly dangerous place in its history.
Podcast
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Fighting austerity in Manitoba in the middle of a pandemic
Scott Neigh | Brendan Devlin and Shaden Abusaleh talk about Communities Not Cuts Manitoba and the work of figuring out how to oppose austerity under the limitations imposed by the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Stephen Harper at a press conference in 2010. Image: Number 10/Flickr
Don't listen to Stephen Harper. Now is the worst time for austerity.
Wyatt James Schierman | Government debt is not the bogeyman neoliberals make it out to be. Reductions in government spending are the real danger.
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Conservatives are weaponizing the COVID-19 pandemic to promote nationalism
Nicholas Erwin-Longstaff | As things stand, we face a future where we are asked to choose between a nationalist right and a liberal centre. The left must present a compelling and plausible alternative to these paths.
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U.S. President Donald Trump answers questions from the press about COVID-19 on April 7, 2020. Image: Tia Dufour/The White House/Flickr
Canada's universal single-payer health-care system is our best vaccination against the neoliberal virus
David J. Climenhaga | The United States is critically ill -- COVID-19 is the proximate cause, but the ailment that may kill it is neoliberalism.
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A copy of Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged." Image: eflon/Flickr
Could libertarian and neoliberal ideology implode from this pandemic?
Jim Harding | This pandemic fundamentally challenges us to rethink norms and clichés about freedom and authority; about the individual, the community and the "state."
Blog
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Think what we could have accomplished if we'd concentrated on global warming like we're focusing on COVID-19!
David J. Climenhaga | By the time we get around to addressing the problem of global warming seriously, we may well be at the end of our rope.
News
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Taking profits out of long-term care: a conversation with Albert Banerjee
Zaid Noorsumar | The neoliberalization of Ontario's long-term care system has resulted in all the contradictions and inefficiencies associated with for-profit health care delivery.
News
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Inside Ecuador's mass movement against neoliberalism
Diana Vela Almeida | This fall, Ecuador erupted into massive protests against neoliberal economic reforms. Protesters orchestrated a unified national shutdown and spurred an international movement against neoliberalism.