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Canadian Politics, Economy and Foreign Policy
Rogues Like These
It has the makings of a B-grade political thriller: a mysterious “Pierre Poutine” uses a disposable “burner” cell phone and an anonymous prepaid credit card to buy a series of automated outbound phone calls designed to harass voters in key ridings and mislead them about where they should vote in the May 2011 federal election. The drama here lies in the sheer scale of the skulduggery.
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Quebec
State of Play
The opposition between the government and an important social movement like the student movement is reminiscent of a game of chess. Two organizations face off, each unravelling complex strategies both to confound their adversary and to reach their objectives.
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Labour
Labour Struggles in the New Age of Austerity
The first months of 2012 hardly represented a new beginning for the working class in Canada and internationally. From the riots and general strike in Greece to the lockout of Electro Motive Diesel in London, workers have found ourselves under severe attack.
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Indigenous Politics
Reproducing Order
In its interim Report, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TR C) noted that “Canadians have been denied a full and proper education as to the nature of Aboriginal societies. They have not been well informed about the nature of the relationship that was established initially between Aboriginal and non- Aboriginal peoples and the way that relationship has been shaped over time by colonialism and racism.”
Recent articles
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Charest declares war on Quebec’s students
“It’s a declaration of war on the student movement,” said Martine Desjardins, leader of the FEUQ. “They’ve just told the young people that everything they have done, everything they have created as a social movement for 14 weeks will now be criminal.” (more)
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Quebec government bludgeons student strikers with emergency law
Quebec premier Jean Charest announced May 16 that he will introduce emergency legislation to end the militant student strike, now in its 14th week, that has shut down college and university campuses across the province. The students are protesting the Liberal government’s 75% increase in university tuition fees, now slated to take place over the next seven years. (more)
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Nefarious details in the Cuban Five case
I sit on a gray plastic chair waiting for Gerardo Hernández in the visiting room of the maximum-security federal pen in Victorville, California. The government charged Gerardo with conspiring to commit murder because he allegedly passed the flight information to Cuban authorities knowing they would shoot the planes down. (more)
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Do No Harm?
“Do no harm,” an ancient injunction in the field of medicine, is at risk of being forgotten in the delivery of health care in North America today. In fact, medical errors, pharmaceutical errors and hospital acquired infections (HAIs) combined are a scandalously significant annual cause of death for Americans and Canadians. (more)
Episode 214 (May 3rd) — On Mayday Noam Chomsky urges activists to focus their attention not simply on the economy and the environment, but how the market system underlies the fiscal and environmental crisis. Clayton Thomas Muller discusses the diverse strategies of First People’s against colonial structures that destroy their livelihoods and their environment. Nae Burrows describes the successful living-wage campaign in British Columbia.
- The Age of Extreme Oil by Arno Kopecky
- Scientists Lash Harper for Pulling the Plug on Experimental Lakes Research by Margaret Agnes Welch
- Physicians Blast Tories over Changes in Budget by Mark Kennedy
- Quebec Students Mobilize Against Draconian Law by Roger Annis
- Feds Sink Key Science Program by Mary Agnes Welch
- Get the Shell Out: Indigenous Activists Expose Dirty Oil Business
- Game Over for the Climate by James Hansen
- Tightening the Screws on the Unemployed by Andrew Jackson
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