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Is China capitalist or socialist?

Is China capitalist or socialist?

The long transition shaping China’s economic experiment

previous day 10

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Owen Schalk

Public subsidies essential to boosting media ecosystem, new study finds

Public subsidies essential to boosting media ecosystem, new study finds

International research contradicts critics of subsidies who swarmed MPs last week

wednesday 6

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Marc Edge

Why Ric Esther Bienstock’s ‘Speechless’ left me speechless

Why Ric Esther Bienstock’s ‘Speechless’ left me speechless

A polemic disguised as inquiry into campus free speech wars

wednesday 10

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Rinaldo Walcott

Carney’s gambit: Atlanticism with Canadian characteristics

Carney’s gambit: Atlanticism with Canadian characteristics

The PM talked of sovereignty in Davos. But back in Washington’s orbit, Canada’s foreign policy remains firmly constrained

28.04.2026 10

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Peter mcfarlane

Who is Ontario’s ‘food independence’ really for?

Who is Ontario’s ‘food independence’ really for?

New agri-food legislation misdiagnoses land and food issues in the North

27.04.2026 9

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Sarah Rotz

Carney’s AI dream betrays Havel’s warning

Carney’s AI dream betrays Havel’s warning

Why the NDP should seize the moment to challenge technological determinism and reclaim a humanist politics

24.04.2026 20

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Dónal Gill

A dangerous retreat: Where does Canada stand on the use of banned landmines?

A dangerous retreat: Where does Canada stand on the use of banned landmines?
22.04.2026 10

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Lital Khaikin

The Left should want no truck with the ‘anti-Israel’ right

21.04.2026 20

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John Clarke

Waffling to the Left: How a manifesto shook the NDP in 1969

20.04.2026 7

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David Blocker

A lifetime of working for democratic socialism: Tommy Douglas reflects

20.04.2026 10

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Steven langdon

Avi Lewis in the long shadow of populism

20.04.2026 10

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Ian Rocksborough-Smith

Edmonton’s homelessness crisis is political violence

16.04.2026 20

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David rivera-kohr

The migrant women who care for Canada deserve a future here

13.04.2026 10

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Nathania ebegbare

Gas price spikes are supercharging Big Oil profits

09.04.2026 10

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Jared a. walker and silas xuereb

As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity

08.04.2026 20

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Owen Schalk

Can Avi Lewis save the NDP?

07.04.2026 20

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Dennis Pilon

Avi Lewis isn’t breaking the NDP—he’s reclaiming it

07.04.2026 20

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Christo Aivalis

Avi Lewis, labour, and the NDP’s path back from the abyss

02.04.2026 10

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Paul Moist

Will Avi Lewis turn crisis into coherence for the NDP?

02.04.2026 30

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Rob Goodman

Avi Lewis will make the NDP think big again

31.03.2026 30

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Steven High

The Iran war and the unmaking of the Western-led order

30.03.2026 20

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Richard Sakwa

The price of letting others control our energy

The solution to oil shocks is domestic control

29.03.2026 30

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Gordon Laxer

Montréal’s working-class past revisited

‘Morel’ is a poignant reflection on the lives, losses, and quiet pride of workers shaped by displacement and change

27.03.2026 20

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Rob rolfe

How the US might invade Iran

The true scale of military escalation may be far larger, and riskier, than it seems

26.03.2026 10

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Jack Rasmus

What the world can learn from Cuba’s climate fight

Bob Hackett’s journey through Cuban farms and climate programs reveals lessons in adaptation, solidarity, and survival

25.03.2026 30

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Robert Hackett

Spain’s migrant regularization marks a rare progressive turn in Europe

As the continent hardens its borders, Madrid bets on inclusion over exclusion

24.03.2026 30

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Kim Wilson

The very political ‘neutrality’ campaign to exclude equity, diversity, and social justice from higher education

Opponents of EDI position themselves as defenders of merit and objectivity—but their methods reveal a partisan strategy

23.03.2026 40

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Laurie Adkin

Canada’s media meltdown is hiding in plain sight

A renewed inquiry into media dysfunction sidesteps the role of government policy and ownership consolidation

21.03.2026 30

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Marc Edge

The world according to Gaza

The war on Iran and the genocide in Gaza is the beginning. This is the new world order

19.03.2026 50

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Chris Hedges

No Danny Boy

St. Patrick’s Day and the politics of forgetting

17.03.2026 30

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Megan Kinch

There is no ‘Epstein Class’

Epstein’s network was real and horrific, but the forces shaping war, empire, and capitalism run far deeper

17.03.2026 40

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John Clarke

Building a just transition means listening to women in the trades

A tradeswoman’s response to Leigh Phillips on ‘man camps,’ climate politics, and the future of resource extraction

17.03.2026 30

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Robin reid-fraser

Canada’s biggest corporations raked in $677 billion last year. Why are they still getting handouts?

Corporate profits hit record highs in 2025, while the share of profits they pay in taxes has never been lower

16.03.2026 50

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Jared A. Walker

Thirty years on, Paul Kagame remains untouchable in Congo

An excerpt from Judi Rever’s new book on Rwanda’s long war and impunity in Congo

13.03.2026 30

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Judi Rever

The fossil fuel industry is replaying its 2022 war playbook

11.03.2026 60

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Nick Gottlieb

Will Trump chicken out of Iran invasion?

10.03.2026 30

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Alex callinicos

Higher education on the chopping block in New Brunswick

The looming $50 million in cuts could reshape universities in the province forever

10.03.2026 20

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Nathan Kalman-Lamb

The struggle of Kurdish journalist Omer Cakir

His story shows political imprisonment doesn’t end at the prison gate—exile can become another form of confinement

10.03.2026 30

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Diary Marif

Daniel Ellsberg speaks to us as the war on Iran continues

10.03.2026 30

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Norman Solomon

Foreign bombs won’t bring Iranian freedom

10.03.2026 20

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Sima Atri

Iran: Beyond empire and theocracy

10.03.2026 30

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Jasmine Ramze Rezaee

The wrong question about the war in Iran

10.03.2026 30

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Yakov M. Rabkin

Elbows up or hands up?

10.03.2026 30

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Derek Sayer

Carney’s Iran hypocrisy

10.03.2026 50

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Owen Schalk

Gangster imperialism comes for Iran

10.03.2026 40

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Judi Rever

The federal NDP’s ‘basket of deplorables’ moment

10.03.2026 30

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Leigh Phillips

The trades remain a danger zone—especially for women workers

11.02.2026 40

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Megan Kinch

Iran and the distorted accusation of ‘campism’

10.02.2026 40

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Yves Engler

The NDP and the parliamentary illusion

10.02.2026 30

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Ali Terrenoire

By barring Bianca Mugyenyi, NDP shows it’s not interested in renewal

10.02.2026 20

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Nora Loreto