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Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Dr. Amy Tan (L-R). Image courtesy of authors
Challenge accepted, Prime Minister: A national conversation about COVID-19 vaccination strategies
Nili Kaplan-Myrth, Amy Tan | Dr. Nili Kaplan-Myrth brought together a group of health-care experts and advocates to talk with Prime Minister Justin Trudeau about disparities in access to COVID-19 vaccine across Canada.
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Alberta Finance Minister Travis Toews. Image credit: Alberta Newsroom/Flickr
Don't expect UCP to follow Business Council's progressive advice in Alberta's budget
David J. Climenhaga | The big business guys never quite come out and advise Jason Kenney and the UCP to run Alberta like Rachel Notley's NDP did. But that's what they're doing.
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Man holds sign reading "United Against Islamophobia." Image credit: Felton Davis/Wikimedia Commons
Pushing for political leadership on Islamophobia from Trudeau to Legault
Ehab Lotayef | It is only when the people lead that the politicians will follow. Now we need to keep pushing Canada's politicians to continue fighting against Islamophobia.
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Calgary street preacher Artur Pawlowski addresses supporters at Saturday's tiki-torch march in Edmonton. Image: Artur Pawlowski/Facebook
Extremist rally at Alberta legislature met with silence from UCP
David J. Climenhaga | Jason Kenney's commentary about Saturday's tiki-torch protest in Edmonton wasn't quite a full-throated Trumpian defence of "very fine people," but surely boils down to the same thing.
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Inauguration of new president of Haiti in 2017. Image credit: United Nations Photo/Flickr
Canada's contribution to political corruption in Haiti
Yves Engler | As Haiti's neo-Duvalierist regime becomes ever more dictatorial it's worth revisiting Canada's history in facilitating fraud and money laundering in the hemisphere's most impoverished nation.
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Pastor James Coates preaching to his congregation recently. Image: Screenshot of GraceLife Church video
Enforcement of Alberta's pandemic restrictions no threat to defiant pastor
David J. Climenhaga | The religious right in Canada and the U.S. is painting Pastor James Coates as a Christian martyr. Verily, I say unto you, his willingness to go to jail has nothing to do with religious freedom.
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Woman covering face with frosted glass. Image credit: Jamie Street/Unsplash
Sex workers win the right to anonymity in Ontario legal challenge
Chelsea Nash | The sex worker rights organization Work Safe Twerk Safe says the Ontario government's order to close strip clubs while bars remained open was discriminatory.
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Inquiry Commissioner Steve Allan. Image credit: Government of Alberta
Judge hopes to rule on Ecojustice challenge to Alberta inquiry by May 31
David J. Climenhaga | Whether or not Ecojustice is winning in court is impossible to say. But the group is certainly well ahead in the Canadian court of public opinion.
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An Alberta Health Services ambulance. Image credit: Mitchell Smith/Flickr
Is Alberta's EMS dispatch consolidation plan a prelude to ambulance privatization?
David J. Climenhaga | The only way the UCP's stubborn persistence with this policy really makes sense is if it sets the stage for something else, to wit, privatization of the provincial ambulance service.
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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.
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An soldier observes a CH-47 Chinook helicopter at an undisclosed location in Afghanistan, Feb. 9, 2018. Image credit: The U.S. Army/Flickr
With Taliban about to regain control in Afghanistan, we should ask: was it worth it?
David J. Climenhaga | Kandahar fell to U.S. special forces and their Afghan allies on Dec. 7, 2001. The first Canadian soldiers got involved the same month. Canadians would fight and die there until March 2014.
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Image: Screenshot from February 9, 2021 press conference given by "Coalition to Defend Collective Bargaining"
How Ontario is limiting wage increases, paid sick days for front-line workers
Chelsea Nash | A coalition of Ontario unions have filed evidence in their legal challenge against Bill 124.
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