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"Now that millions of people have gotten a small sample of what life can be like with reduced material anxieties, how are we going to convince them to go back to how it was before? And why should we?"
The last few months have been the first period since I lost my job several years ago that I haven’t been constantly anxious.
There are better ways of dealing with problems in our communities than sending in cops with guns.
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Police involvement in so-called wellness checks pose a danger to people across Canada. They should have no role in these operations.
The way wellness checks are approached in Winnipeg offers a clear example of the dangers they pose throughout Canada.
Greyhound has aggressively cut back service, leaving many Canadians without any intercity transit alternative. Now is the time to create a publicly-funded national bus system
If Ottawa continues to ignore reality, Canadians will soon find intercity buses extinct in a time where they’re needed more than ever.
A 1990 co-funded Norman Bethune film was an attempt by Canadian authorities to forge cultural links with China and soften Cold War-era prejudices.
A 1990 co-funded Bethune film was an attempt by Canadian authorities to forge cultural links with China and soften Cold War-era prejudices.
Since public relations was invented, corporations have marketed progressive causes to disguise their contributions to social problems.
The NDP should not be afraid to call for public ownership of Canadian telcos.
The public ownership of telecoms, not just greater regulation, should be a part of the NDP’s agenda.
It's time to acknowledge the real harms of alcohol consumption and confront the power of those who profit from it.
Leftists must fight to address the reasons people drink while also working to limit the power and influence of the alcohol industry.
IP law has been used to create monopolies, crush the public domain and hurt the artists its proponents say it serves.
The editorial boards at Canada's big papers love war.
Editorial boards have supported Canada’s war and regime change efforts since the First World War 98 per cent of the time.
The Federal government is not doing enough to stop tax cheats from getting public aid.
None of the government’s measures to get tough on corporate tax dodgers will carry much weight without consequences for violators.
We can’t ask people to separate their fears about the climate crisis from the other economic pressures and systemic crises they face.
COVID-19 has sped up what was already in motion: the hollowing out of public education in Ontario and the creation of a two-tiered system.
World class dental care can be provided to all Canadians without breaking the bank. Monied interests want to maintain the status quo, but organized movements can help expose the dysfunction of our current system and provide a more humane alternative.
Dental care in Canada more closely resembles a private U.S.-style healthcare system than one worthy of applause.
The RCMP investigation into Colten Boushie's killing shows that the problems with the force run too deep, and are too wide to be papered over. The only solution to fix what is broken in this case is to tear it down.
The investigation from the RCMP into Boushie’s death was defined by a series of incompetent, racist and inhumane actions.
Canadians’ lack of knowledge about, and simultaneous blind trust of, the military indicates that the media’s coverage of it is flawed.
Beware these power-serving journalism phrases: they function as PR for police, victim-blame sexual assault survivors, support Canadian foreign policy, and minimize racism.
These phrases function as PR for police, victim-blame sexual assault survivors, support Canadian foreign policy, and minimize racism.
Jordan Peterson's experience with addiction reveals not only a personal hypocrisy, but also the problem with the so-called self-help industry as a whole.
The world would have better use for a book from someone who made it through Canada’s labyrinthine public addiction treatment system alive.
The mental health crisis amongst students has been exacerbated by COVID-19. For-profit, corporatized universities aren't capable of fixing it.
This crisis isn’t due to a lack of resources at universities, but rather an absence of willingness to do what’s necessary to save lives.
It’s tempting to tell ourselves that the QAnon conspiracy theory that has taken hold in the U.S. will never gain a foothold here.
Unfortunately, it already has.
The group exploded onto the news cycle in July when a man smashed his pickup truck through the gates in front of Rideau Hall.
Without the support need to live a dignified life, the right to die is coercive.
Poverty, insecure housing, lack of resources and an ableist healthcare system all impact the dignity of people living with disabilities.
High unemployment rates mean employers have an army of desperate workers, who they can pay little and expect to be docile.
Without progressive pushback, a status quo has emerged that admits the richest of Global South countries while excluding the working class.
Canada's legal system extends protections to corporations and capital which are denied to the rest of us. It is structured to preserve profits, not serve ordinary people.
In Canada, protecting corporate capital is considered just as “fundamental” as protecting people from violence.
Canadian politicians are not only failing to do anything to fix the housing crisis, some of them are also profiting off of it.
A review of public records reveals that since the beginning of the pandemic, at least eight MPs disclosed new rental property assets.
Precarious and low-wage gigs are eroding the mental health of Canadian workers. Raising the minimum wage could save their lives.
With millions of Canadians out of work and a painful recovery ahead, it's time for a massive green stimulus.
Dental care in Canada more closely resembles a private U.S.-style healthcare system than one worthy of applause. We must fight for universal dental care
Dental care in Canada more closely resembles a private U.S.-style healthcare system than one worthy of applause.
It didn’t take a genius to see where Ford was leading us.
These opinion writers were wrong then, and they are wrong now. It didn’t take a genius to see where Ford was leading us.
Canada's shameful treatment of the volunteers who fought fascism in Spain shows an ugly truth about our country.
A government that believed in fighting fascism would at least acknowledge the wrongs it did to the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion volunteers.
Drug prohibition has failed and people across the country are suffering as a result — it's time for Canada to legalize all drugs.
Canada's junior hockey players desperately need a labour union.
The sweatshop conditions of minor hockey are about to intensify, and if our labour unions won’t help them, who will?
Rich people often claim they deserve their wealth because of hard work. Take it from someone born wealthy: it's not true. The rich do not work harder than the rest of us.
I never saw exceptional “hard work” or “intelligence” among the members of the class I was born into.
Giving rideshare companies like Uber control over transit services will be a catastrophe.
Microtransit is a failure by every metric — except for the one that expands capital accumulation.
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