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Harper Now Runs Alberta’s $170-Billion Pension Fund. What Could Go Wrong?
Graham Thomson is an award-winning Edmonton-based columnist who has covered Alberta politics for more than 30 years, first with the Edmonton Journal and now as a freelancer. Get some gift-giving ...
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The Case for the Carbon Tax
Anti-carbon tax protesters, like these people waving signs and chanting slogans as they block a lane of the Trans-Canada Highway near Cochrane, Alberta, are winning the day. Photo by Jeff McIntosh ...
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Emotional, Challenging Week for Unsanctioned Vancouver Island Overdose Prevention Sites
Dr. Ryan Herriot, third from left in a white coat, stands with volunteers at the unsanctioned overdose prevention site at Royal Jubilee Hospital in Victoria. Photo submitted. Teams of doctors say ...
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Oppressors Gonna Oppress. And Get Tossed
A detail from a painting by Jean Froissart of Richard II meeting with the rebels of the Peasants’ Revolt of 1381. Image via Wikimedia. So, the election of Donald Trump and likely coronation of ...
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The CPP: Net-Zero Promises, Billions Invested in Oil and Gas
An oil refinery near Fort McMurray. The Canada Pension Plan Investment Board owns 90 per cent of a Calgary-based oil and gas company that signed an open letter calling for withdrawal of the ...
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On BC’s North Coast, First Nations Are Building a New Economy
Guardian Watchmen survey the Great Bear Sea. Photo by Emilee Gilpin, Coastal First Nations. Money doesn’t grow on trees, but in the coastal rainforests of British Columbia, salmon do. After ...
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Housing Costs Drive Vancouver’s Living Wage Up Sharply
Iglika Ivanova is a senior economist at the CCPA-BC and lead author of the Living Wage BC: 2024 Update. Anastasia French is the provincial manager of Living Wage BC. Housing costs have driven up ...
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Controversial Pipeline Fighting to Avoid New Environmental Review
Nick Gottlieb is a writer and a graduate student at Simon Fraser University, as well as the author of Sacred Headwaters. The proposed Prince Rupert Gas Transmission line is facing similar ...
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Shooting Fish (or Elk) in a Barrel
This page requires Javascript. Your browser either doesn't support JavaScript or you have it turned off. Please enable JavaScript before you proceed. Lorne Fitch is a ...
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The Growth and Evolution of the Far Right in Canada
Stéphane Leman-Langlois and Aurélie Campana are professors at Université Laval. Samuel Tanner is a professor at Université de Montréal. This article was originally published by the Conversation.
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Eby Announces a ‘New Team’ to Run BC
Premier David Eby named a new cabinet and made big changes to some ministries. Photo by Chad Hipolito, the Canadian Press. B.C. Premier David Eby appointed a new cabinet Monday that gives several ...
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Are We Cancelling the Enlightenment?
When enlightenment was cool. Detail of The Weimar Courtyard of the Muses, 1860, by Theobald von Oer, depicts famous German poets Friedrich Shiller, at centre, and Goethe, to the right. Image via ...