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A leaching pond at the Mufulira mine in Zambia
A Canadian mining company's push for neoliberalism in Zambia
Yves Engler | A big beneficiary of internationally sponsored neoliberal reforms, First Quantum Minerals is the largest foreign investor in the copper-rich southern African nation.
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French election speaks to the pointlessness of politics under globalization
Rick Salutin | If political acts, like voting, are meaningless under globalization, that makes some sense of the refusal by normally left voters to turn out for Hillary, leading to Trump's victory.
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What is the antidote to Trumpism?
Murray Dobbin | How do we create a new politics that builds the basis of a citizen-based democracy to replace our hollowed-out institutions? To do so we first need to understand the roots of Trump's popularity.
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Centre-right student associations are hiring bogus, expensive audit firms and then firing unionized workers
Michael Bueckert | Regressive, centre-right student unions across Ontario have adopted a brand new tactic to pursue their agenda on university campuses: hire dubious audit firms staffed by friends.
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Working Canadians face 'death by despair' as labour insecurity grows
Murray Dobbin | Research shows that the effects of neoliberalism on Canadian workers are devastating. Who will fight back against worsening conditions and speak up for those most vulnerable?
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U.S. health 'reform' and the Koch-designed Republican Party
Linda McQuaig | Whenever Americans start tinkering with their deeply dysfunctional health-care system, we feel the reverberations up here, as right-wing commentators seek to denigrate our system of health care.
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Precarity in higher learning: Neoliberalism and contract faculty contract negotiations at WLU
Dan Kellar | As contract faculty at Wilfrid Laurier University negotiate a new contract, many in the union have recognized their struggle as a moment in the widescale resistance to neoliberal ideologies.
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Justin Trudeau may be the last neoliberal standing
Rick Salutin | Like the Clintons and Blair, Trudeau exudes empathy for the excluded -- while clinging fiercely to (free) trade deals.
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As corruption hits close to home, we must remember there are alternatives to deregulated corporate capitalism
Christopher Majka | Should Canadians be concerned that Bombardier has paid $2.46 billion to a shell company in Belize with no office or employees? Deregulated corporate capitalism breeds graft. There are alternatives.
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To tackle the housing crisis, advocates need to focus on more than just homes and homelessness
Nick Falvo | Housing policy would benefit from a socioeconomic perspective that remains mindful of both macroeconomic factors and factors pertaining to Canada's social welfare system in general.
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'All for ourselves and nothing for other people': The takeover of economics by neoliberalism
Murray Dobbin | The economics profession has become a self-satisfied apologia for the plunder of society's wealth by the greedy and ruthless 1% -- the "masters of mankind."
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Instead of following Trump's money, Canada can choose a better path
Duncan Cameron | The election of Donald Trump creates a new opportunity for Canada to distance itself from advocates of U.S.-style capitalism as the way ahead for the world.