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Deconstructing Loblaw’s inept self-justification
Supermarkets like Loblaw complain they are being unfairly singled out for responsibility for food inflation. They claim they are innocent victims, caught in the middle: merely passing along higher prices they are charged by their own suppliers. These arguments have not washed well with the shopping public, every time they shell out $200 for a cart of groceries.
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Canada: One of the ‘biggest gangsters in Haiti’
Canada must respect the Haitian people in their struggle for justice and self-determination. As members of the Atlantic Regional Solidarity Network (ARSN), we oppose the militarization of the Haitian National Police and any further steps toward military intervention, which could further escalate violence and entrench Core Group control against the will of the Haitian people.
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Compassion in an age of anxiety and disillusionment
Canadian physician and author Gabor Maté’s new book, The Myth of Normal, is a rich examination of the conditions that lead to individual illness and the cultural normalization of stress, alienation, and disenfranchisement. The book questions and dismantles notions of ‘normalcy,’ interrogating the factors behind the rise of what Maté calls trauma-related illnesses.
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Trudeau government’s support for Peruvian coup regime all about Canadian mining companies
Ottawa has plowed significant resources and diplomatic energy into advancing Canadian mining interests in the Andean nation. The federal government has supported many individual mining projects and worked to provide the industry with a profitable investment climate. Since the early 2000s Ottawa has channeled tens of millions of dollars into Peru’s Ministry of Energy and Mines and mining related initiatives.
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Public opinion polls in wartime Ukraine: do they tell the full story?
Wartime surveys in Ukraine are meaningful and revealing. But conjuring a transcendent Ukrainian general will in wartime from the findings of surveys funded by advocacy groups in government-controlled Ukraine demand skepticism. Ukraine is a large and diverse country, and the least we can do is acknowledge and respect its socio-cultural and geographic complexity.
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Release of Tyre Nichols’ arrest video shows why police shouldn’t control body-cam footage
The practice of releasing body camera footage will continue to remain foremost in the interests of police especially when they continue to retain control over the footage. While body cameras will never solve the problem of police violence, it should not be up to the police to decide when and how footage is released as a legitimacy tool to leverage public support of police actions.
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Ukraine: the war that went wrong
The plan to reshape Europe and the global balance of power by degrading Russia is turning out to resemble the failed plan to reshape the Middle East. It is fueling a global food crisis and devastating Europe with near double-digit inflation. It is exposing the impotency, once again, of the United States, and the bankruptcy of its ruling oligarchs.
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State files confirm targeted RCMP violence in the aftermath of 1969 Sir George protest
At a time when institutions are attempting to repair the harms they caused to Black communities and organizations involved in the 1969 Sir George occupation, when will the Canadian state acknowledge its role in manufacturing anti-Black violence during the occupation, and the continuum of harm and racial terror committed by the RCMP Security Service that followed?
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NATO arms transfers to Ukraine risk nuclear nightmare
The White House has decided to send M1 Abrams tanks to Ukraine. The move was seen as political cover for Germany, which then announced a shipment of 14 Leopard tanks to Kyiv. But the West’s recent approval of more military assistance risks nuclear nightmare, fails Ukrainian expectations and rebukes the Second World War history enshrined in a prominent Soviet war memorial in Berlin.
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New book shows why Indigenous leadership must be at the heart of Canada’s just transition
The Beaver Lake Cree nation’s battle over Treaty rights and industrial overdevelopment is one of the core stories featured in Toronto publisher Between the Lines’ The End of This World: Climate Justice in So-Called Canada. According to the authors, it illustrates both where the climate justice movement needs to go and, at least partially, how we get there.