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Welcome to CD’s Best of the Web. Here you will find both archived articles from our daily "Extra! Extra!" article feature (formerly the CD Digest) and featured articles from the magazine. Start by browsing the most recent articles (below), or search by category or search term.

How Grits can save Canada and themselves.

Murray Dobbin | Posted on November 20th, 2008

http://thetyee.ca/Views/2008/11/19/CoalitionCall/

November 19, 2008 TheTyee.ca

Talk of a parliamentary accord between the Liberals, Bloc and NDP continues across the country, and inside and between the Bloc and NDP parties. (Keep reading…)

Deficit of policy comes home to roost

Frances Russell | Posted on November 19th, 2008

Winnipeg Free Press, November 19

British economist Lord John Maynard Keynes believed that governments should step in when markets fail and deficit spend to maintain employment and incomes and thus, the economy. (Keep reading…)

GM Canada beset by pension crisis

Greg Keenan and Murray Campbell | Posted on November 19th, 2008

Globe and Mail, Report on Business
November 19, 2008

Massive pension deficit presents a quandary for governments that would be on the hook in the event of bankruptcy (Keep reading…)

What’s Left After Obama?

Simon Critchley | Posted on November 19th, 2008

http://www.adbusters.org/features/after_obama.html

Ad Busters
12 November 2008 (Keep reading…)

Holocaust’s unholy hold.

Avraham Burg | Posted on November 17th, 2008

http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/commentary/la-oe-burg16-2008nov16,0,4227786.story

Los Angeles Times November 16, 2008 (Keep reading…)

Vision coalition Wins Vancouver Municipal Election

Frances Bula | Posted on November 17th, 2008

Globe and Mail
November 17, 2008

Vancouver is now heading into the future under the leadership of a civic coalition that says it represents a new brand of political party and a new way of doing politics. (Keep reading…)

Rahm Emanuel is no Reason for Hope or Celebration

Rabbi Michael Lerner | Posted on November 15th, 2008

http://www.theamericanmuslim.org/tam.php/features/articles/rahm_emanuel_is_n o_reason_for_hope_or_celebration/0016892 The American Muslim
November 7, 2008 (Keep reading…)

It can be worse than the Great Depression

Anders Åslund | Posted on November 14th, 2008

http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/2008/10/it-can-be-worse-than-the-great-depression/ http://blogs.ft.com/wolfforum/2008/10/it-can-be-worse-than-the-great-depression/ (Keep reading…)

Labour looks for opportunity in 40th Parliament

Fred Wilson | Posted on November 14th, 2008

Rabble.ca NOVEMBER 14, 2008

When Canada’s Parliament opens next week, there will be a new influence exerted by Canada’s slumbering giant, the labour movement. (Keep reading…)

The Congo: Resource pillage fuels world’s bloodiest war

Aditya Ganapathiraju | Posted on November 12th, 2008

Special to Canadian Dimension November 6, 2008

Fighting in the Democratic Republic of Congo recently spiked last week, the scene of the world’s bloodiest conflict since World War II with 5.4 million killed in the last decade. (Keep reading…)

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