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Trust – Capitol
Trust – Capitol
Assorted content to end your week. – Tom Parkin discusses the contrived war between the Libs’ fake progressives and the Cons’ phony populists: In Canada, under Conservatives and Liberals, income…
With the announcement of the Freedom Conservative Party’s election platform yesterday, leader Derek Fildebrandt appears to have taken Alberta’s already bizarre case of Trudeau Derangement Syndrome to a new level…
What is the true, revolutionary meaning of Christmas? In this article, originally published in the Christmas 1969 edition of Black Dwarf, Fred Halliday analyses the dialectic of Christmas in which…
Photo by Québec solidaire The rise of Québec solidaire was in some sense historically ordained, although we didn’t realize to what extent. We kept hoping and working to make it…
Photo by NOW Magazine It is no exaggeration to say that Ontario has elected the most right-wing government in its history, one that is far more to the right than…
Photo by Jeff Bowen Healthcare is a big-ticket item on the nation’s annual budget. In its most recent report on national health expenditure trends, the Canadian Institute of Health Information…
I have two stories to tell about my shopping habits. This is the one with a happy ending, the story that makes me appear to be a rational adult. On…
Photo by Martin Reis ‘‘Ford’s ‘government for the people’ thus pivots, like Trump’s regime in the U.S., around ideological appeals to a hard-right provincialism, patriarchal family values set against a…
Photo by FORTUNE Global Forum Mass protests against free-trade agreements have died off since the days of the annual confrontations in the aughts, but this is at least in part…
Manon Massé • Photo by Québec solidaire The fall election in Québec represents a turning point in Québec’s history, which saw five decades of alternation in government between the federalist…
New Abacus. Is Justin Trudeau in trouble? His majority is.
Photo from iStock I think a case can be made that in large part, the meth problem is a reflection of a much deeper societal malaise. We are still in…
Iván Duque Márquez and Jair Bolsonaro In Colombia, the last week has been a particularly bloody one for indigenous leaders. In the state of Cauca, just south of the major…
How do you like that bunch of ingrates in Alberta? Prime minister Trudeau comes up with a $1.6 billion Christmas present for them and all they do is complain. Bet…
‘Hundreds’ of Canadians held by China raises the stakes for Trudeau’s government OTTAWA—Around 200 Canadians are currently detained in China for a variety of reasons, the Star has learned. The…
I must admit it wasn't easy to leave Edinburgh, where I spent the last week celebrating an early Christmas with my family and friends.And everything seemed more alive than anything…
Someone stole a package from me. Police wouldn’t do anything about it so I spent the last 6 months engineering up some vigilante justice. Revenge is a dish best served…
Let’s not waste time on this one. The U.S. was never in Syria to help that country. It was, in fact, on the other side. No. Syria and Russia have…
You can’t help but chuckle when Tumak runs down the rocky slope to battle the baby Triceratops (about the size of a Sheltie) and ends up rolling in the dirt…