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Canada promises climate reparations at COP29 while courting Big Oil at home
With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.
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Brett Christophers on our growing ‘asset-manager society’
Many people now live in homes and rely on infrastructure that are owned by pension funds, insurance companies, and banks.
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How the far-right nearly took over B.C.
There’s a chance now for bold reforms to save lives and strengthen the social safety net for those most in need.
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AI is pushing gas demand to ‘record highs,’ pipeline builder TC Energy says
Tech firms like Amazon and Google ‘have enormous responsibility’ for driving fossil fuel expansions, climate expert argues.
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In West Africa, Canadian mining firms come up against bloc of independent states
An increasingly assertive group of African nations are constraining the ability of Canadian companies to profit from resources.
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Who will they add next to Canada’s ‘terror’ list?
Banning Samidoun Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network highlights the anti-Palestinian character of Canada’s terrorist list.
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We’ve solved the housing crisis before. We can do it again
Pierre Trudeau made housing an instrument of economic justice. Fifty years later his son remade it as an engine of inequality.
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When ‘disinformation’ control becomes government censorship
The Trudeau government is playing a dangerous game with its latest censorship push.
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On the need to dismantle the settler-colonial bloc at the UN
What do two South Pacific countries, two North American countries, one country in the Middle East, and (until recently) one country in southern Africa have in common with Europe?
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The West truly doesn’t see Palestinians as human
You never see the dehumanization of Palestinians in western society exhibited so clearly as when something bad happens to Israelis during the genocidal assault on Gaza.
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Working with spies makes you a propagandist, not a journalist
Establishment journalists have often worked closely with intelligence, military officials.
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Canada’s Militarization and the End of U.S. Hegemony
Owen Schalk details how Canada’s policies—the hostile moves toward geopolitical opponents, efforts to decrease economic ties to China through critical minerals exploration, and hundreds of billions of dollars in projected military spending over the next decades—do not make Canadians safer.
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Defend Fred Hahn
Fred Hahn has been a steadfast and effective labour leader. Independent Jewish Voices and others are calling for solidarity and support for Fred.
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Colonialism, capitalism, and Canada, 1500-2025: How the past is before us
An excerpt from Bryan D. Palmer’s new book, to be published October 1 by Lorimer.
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‘Sandwiched’ caregivers show need for improved welfare state
Our economy and society are heavily dependent on unpaid care work, disproportionately performed by women.
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The new Chutzpah
Many of you know that the Yiddish word chutzpah means extreme self-confidence or audacity.
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Revoking charitable status of Jewish National Fund is long overdue
CJPME urges Canada to continue to investigate and punish all connections between Canadian charities and illegal Israeli activity.
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Fighting rising anti-trans hate
One North Vancouver overpass holds lessons in defending against far-right radicalism through counterprotest.
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Delusions and paranoia in NATOland
It remains difficult to portray Canada’s increasingly assertive global deployments as a matter of national defence.
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Canada must comply with ICJ advisory opinion on Israel’s occupation
I am writing on behalf of Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East (CJPME) to request that the Canadian government immediately take steps to align its policy with the Advisory Opinion of the International Court of Justice (ICJ), titled the Legal Consequences arising from the Policies and Practices of Israel in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem.