Three years after Edward Snowden’s eye-opening state surveillance revelations, it’s time for the Communications Security Establishment and Canada’s other spy agencies to come clean.
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The Canadian Progressive: Trade Agreements Should Prioritize People, Not Corporations
David Korten argues that the current wave of opposition to profit-oriented trade agreements will force future deals to prioritize people, not transnational corporations.
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The Canadian Progressive: Muhammad Ali rewrote the rule book for athletes as celebrities and activists
The late Muhammad Ali “was much bigger than boxing. He came, from the late 1960s onwards, to symbolise resistance to racism, militarism and inequality.”
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The Canadian Progressive: Michael Geist: Why Telecom Transparency Reporting in Canada Still Falls Short
Internet law expert Michael Geist explains how Rogers Communications’ recent transparency report “provides new insights into how much – or how little – Canadians know about when their personal information is disclosed to government agencies.”
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The Canadian Progressive: What if activists could more accurately predict political events?
Brian Martin on how “activists could be more effective in targeting their campaigns” if major political events had been easy to predict.
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The Canadian Progressive: Paul Roundy: Why the effects of 2016 El Niño trumped climate change in the Alberta wildfire
Paul Roundy, a professor at the University at Albany, State University of New York, discusses El Niño’s role in the Alberta wildfire.
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The Canadian Progressive: This “new” feminism is the same feminism started by our grandmothers
Our grandmothers showed us a bigger, better feminism with women’s rights, racial equity, and gender justice at its heart, writes award-winning journalist Dani McClain.
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The Canadian Progressive: Study reveals Canada’s shameful Indigenous child poverty rates
Indigenous children in Canada are more than twice as likely to live in poverty than non-Indigenous children, says a study released Tuesday by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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The Canadian Progressive: Canada’s progress shows indigenous reconciliation is a long-term process
Australia, which is “being held back by its unresolved relationship with its Indigenous population”, can learn from Canada’s emerging efforts at reconciliation with First Nations, Inuit and Métis peoples.
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The Canadian Progressive: Canada cannot fulfill Paris Agreement, call to action on climate change while creating more tar sands pipelines
More tar sands pipelines means going in reverse on the climate action Canada needs to fulfill the Paris Agreement and its call to action on climate change.
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The Canadian Progressive: Is the Canada-EU CETA trade deal a sound model for a post-Brexit UK?
London Mayor Boris Johnson and other leading Brits believe that, in the event of Brexit, it’d be easy for the UK to set up a proposed Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA)-style trade deal with the EU. They’re dead wrong.
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The Canadian Progressive: Finally, the U.S. Steps Closer to Racial Healing With a National Truth and Reconciliation Commission
The U.S. has a history of racial violence against blacks and indigenous peoples. Now is the time to follow the example shown by Canada and South Africa, and begin a national process of truth and reconciliation.
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The Canadian Progressive: Budget 2016: Is It The End of a Canadian Digital Strategy?
Internet law expert Michael Geist explains how “Canada’s long road toward a national digital strategy may have come to an end with Budget 2016.”
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The Canadian Progressive: Corporate Media Gatekeepers Protect Western 1% From Panama Leak
Human rights activist and author Craig Murray wonders why, for the western corporate media, the Panama leak is all about Russian president Vladimir Putin. “Do not expect a genuine expose of western capitalism,” he says.
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The Canadian Progressive: How Women-Led Movements Are Redefining Power, From California to Nepal
Around the world, movements led by women are challenging “growing corporate power, land grabs, economic injustice, and climate change, women’s movements offer a paradigm shift,” writes San Francisco-based photojournalist and writer, Rucha Chitnis.
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The Canadian Progressive: US Election 2016: Sanders and Trump “clearly owe a debt” to Occupy and the Tea Party, respectively
Presidential candidates Bernie Sanders and Donald Trump “clearly owe a debt to the US’s two biggest protest movements of recent years,” Occupy and the Tea Party, respectively, argues Alfred Cardone, a PhD candidate at the Institute of North American …
Continue readingThe Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: World Water Day reminds us not to take clean water for granted
Environmentalist David Suzuki proposes a few awesome actions that would help ensure that “all Canadians have access to clean, safe water for generations to come.”
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The Canadian Progressive: Budget turns left but doesn’t step on the gas: think tank
The 2016 federal budget delivered on poverty reduction, First Nations funding, but several of the Liberals’ 2015 election promises were not addressed, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
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The Canadian Progressive: Michael Geist: The Case Against Canada Ratifying The Trans Pacific Partnership Agreement
This week, Internet and e-commerce law expert, Michael Geist, concluded his illuminating 50-day series on the “trouble with the Trans Pacific Partnership (TPP)” by presenting a compelling case against Canada ratifying the trade agreement.
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The Canadian Progressive: David Suzuki: Change is in the air
Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki sees change “in the air” as the infant Liberal government, labour leaders and other stakeholders reaffirm their commitment to the fight against climate change.
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