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News
Karl Nerenberg
| Tom Berger died earlier this week at the age of 88. He had an eminent career, marked by a lifelong commitment to Indigenous peoples and social justice. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| One of the hardy perennials of the Progressive-Conservative dynasty, Ty Lund held the Rocky Mountain House riding from 1989 to 2012. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| For many years, Brian Brennan specialized in writing obituaries, each a polished gem of a few hundred words, with more poetry in them than the readers of a daily newspaper could expect. |
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Blog
Erika Shaker
| Ed Finn was a historian, an activist, an adviser, a colleague, a shop steward, a mentor, a pun-master, and a surrogate great-uncle. Erika Shaker pays tribute to an extraordinary man. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| Panitch, one of the intellectual pillars of the Canadian left and a leading scholar of the global depredations of neoliberalism, died Saturday from COVID-19. |
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Columnists
Duncan Cameron
| In memory of the celebrated Canadian political economist, Mel Watkins. |
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Blog
Brent Patterson
| Shirley Douglas was a champion of public health care, nuclear disarmament and the Black Panther breakfast program. |
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Blog
David J. Climenhaga
| A statement from UFCW 401 president Thomas Hesse and secretary treasurer Richelle Stewart said, "it is hard to express how saddened we are by the loss of our great brother, Douglas." |
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Columnists
Bill Blaikie
| Former MPP Richard Allen told the stories of Canadian left-wing politics in a way that helped many people of faith to see a place for themselves in the struggle for an alternative to capitalism. |
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Blog
Dennis Gruending
| Former Ottawa Centre MP Paul Dewar, who died of cancer in February 2019, was known to say that all religious faith is political. |
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News
rabble staff
| As the first person arrested under a new law at the G20 in Toronto in 2010, he made headlines. He continued to fight injustice and increase awareness. |
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Columnists
Rick Salutin
| Philip Roth, an American novelist who was a pre-eminent figure in 20th-century literature, died at age 85 last week. |
