New Left Project | Articles | Underestimating Capital, Overestimating Labour: A Response to Andrew Kliman. What caused the 2008 economic crisis? In an article published earlier this year by Jacobin,…
Oxford University researchers have concluded that the more intelligent a person is the more likely they are to trust other people. This is assumed to be the case because smarter…
Last week’s approval of the Line 9 pipeline project by the National Energy Board (NEB) hinges on thirty conditions being met by the pipeline’s operator, Enbridge. The conditions are meant…
Not sure what make of Peledeau’s pledge to rip Canada apart? How about an old fashioned boycott of SUN Media publications?
For anyone who thinks it is unusual for the provincial Conservatives to backtrack or apologise, recall, the massive deployment of cabinet ministers to the Straits-White Bay North by-election in the…
The Leader-Post can’t include this whole letter by Mr. Bray because it’s over 250 words, so here’s the full version. Fair elections are the heart and soul of our hard…
Dear Readers, From March 9 to March 13, 2014, I was invited to Spain by Federalistes d'Esquerres, a gathering of Catalans and other Spanish citizens who oppose Catalunya's secession and…
Dear Readers, From March 9 to March 13, 2014, I was invited to Spain by Federalistes d’Esquerres, a gathering of Catalans and other Spanish citizens who oppose Catalunya’s secession and…
Dear Readers,From March 9 to March 13, 2014, I was invited to Spain by Federalistes d'Esquerres, a gathering of Catalans and other Spanish citizens who oppose Catalunya's secession and instead…
Dear Readers, From March 9 to March 13, 2014, I was invited to Spain by Federalistes d’Esquerres, a gathering of Catalans and other Spanish citizens who oppose Catalunya’s secession and…
Your news links for today: Wireless carriers are begging for it with rate hikes – WordsByNowak Then and Now – The Cost of 4 and 6GB of Mobile Data in…
“By 1901, Baku produced half the world’s oil…Baku was a melting pot of pitiful poverty and incredible wealth…he derricks and the refineries poisoned the city and corrupted the people…il townships…
It happens every St. Patrick’s day or Rabbie Burns day or whoever’s day. We gather to celebrate our heritage. As a regular speaker at Robert Burns’ dinners, and with a…
Okay, Crimea has had its referendum, and apparently over 95% of those who voted, chose to align with Russia. I don’t know the full context of the politics in Crimea.…
Miscellaneous material for your Monday reading. – Nafeez Ahmed writes about the dangers of combining growing inequality and increased resource extraction: By investigating the human-nature dynamics of these past cases…
Here are the leading legal headlines from Wise Law on Twitter for Monday, March 17, 2014: Lev Tahor choice of Guatemala as refuge surprises legal experts ACLU challenges Indiana same-sex…
There are posts going around right now in honors of St. Patrick’s day pointing out that the real story of the Irish potato famine is rarely taught. Children are taught…
There was a massive turnout in the Crimea referendum, with 81.3 percent of eligible voters participating. When the final tally was in 96.77 percent voted “yes” to integration with the…
Last week the parliamentary press gallery passed the following motion: “We as the Parliamentary Press Gallery reserve the right to ask questions in all photo-ops and availabilities with the prime…
To the lament of a single bagpiper, Canadians took leave of Afghanistan this past week. We have been aware of being involved since the winter of 2001 when then Defence…
