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The food police
Food theft isn’t an indicator of criminality, but of a failing social system.
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World War II revisionism on full display in Nazi’s visit to Parliament
Schalk: We are cynically rewriting history to serve contemporary political interests
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Ecuador just showed the world what it means to take climate change seriously
It is long past time we end our mad rush to burn the planet to the ground.
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The NDP has been co-opted by Western imperialism
Since its founding, Canada’s ‘left-wing’ party has broadly supported the U.S. empire.
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The changing climate of class struggle
Clarke: The social and economic consequences of climate change will play out along deeply entrenched fault lines of inequality
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Alpha dog of extractivism pushes status quo
Ottawa has long undermined efforts by impoverished countries to draw greater benefits from their natural resources.
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Niger coup will have global ramifications for the U.S., France, and Canada
This isn’t what Western countries wanted to sow in West Africa, writes Owen Schalk.
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Jens Stoltenberg’s global vision encourages conflict, militarization, and historical amnesia
Recent Foreign Affairs article unmasks NATO’s view on the shifting tides of global power.
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Sabotage in the time of the Anthropocene
A review of Daniel Goldhaber’s film adaptation of Swedish author Andreas Malm’s polarizing book ‘How to Blow Up a Pipeline’.
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The terrifying math of the incoming El Niño
We are, right now, living in a dangerously warmed climate.
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Debunking the myth of the ‘mom-and-pop’ landlord
The characterization of landlords as struggling families is central to the prevailing depoliticized view of housing.
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The ‘Chinese interference’ story is rooted in xenophobia, economic decline
Ottawa’s anxieties about a power to the East are neuralgic, irrational, and grimly familiar.
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Getting ready for the global financial crisis 2.0
We see again that banks have access to the protection of an unlimited nanny state, while others are left to fend for themselves.
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Canada’s ‘China syndrome’
The obsession with foreign plots to undermine our institutions is a hallmark of the erosion of political discourse in Canada.
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The crisis of trans health care in Canada
Public health coverage in Canada needs to expand to include a wider range of interventions and gender affirming procedures.
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State-sanctioned violence in Peru and the role of Canadian mining
Canadian firms benefit from state-sanctioned police protection and impunity at the expense of human rights and the environment.
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‘Climate Justice in So-Called Canada’
Indigenous rights and sovereignty must be at the centre of our collective efforts to rescue a habitable planet.
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Venezuela’s Seed Law should be a global model
For peasant farmers, the battle over seed rights is critical to their livelihoods.
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Dismantling the cult of Churchill
Tariq Ali’s new book examines the disconnect between Churchill’s popular image and the larger context of his life and times.
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The lesson we should have learned from ‘Silent Spring’
We have to address the way that corporations create, shape, and control demand, leveraging the state as a tool.