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Gas price spikes are supercharging Big Oil profits

Gas price spikes are supercharging Big Oil profits

War-driven price shocks are delivering billions in windfall profits to oil companies while ordinary Canadians absorb the costs

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Canadian Dimension

Jared A. Walker

As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity

As Israel eyes executions, Canada targets Palestine solidarity

Ottawa’s actions at home contradict its criticism of Israel’s death penalty law

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Owen Schalk

Can Avi Lewis save the NDP?

Can Avi Lewis save the NDP?

The party’s future hinges less on leadership than on rebuilding a working-class base

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Dennis Pilon

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

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

The party’s history, often softened in public memory, points in a far more radical direction

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Christo Aivalis

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

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

At the national level, the party is down, but it is not out. And Lewis represents its best chance for renewal and success

02.04.2026 5

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Paul Moist

Can Avi Lewis turn crisis into coherence for the NDP?

Can Avi Lewis turn crisis into coherence for the NDP?

The party’s collapse reflects deeper political currents that only a clear left alternative can confront

02.04.2026 10

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Rob Goodman

Avi Lewis will make the NDP think big again

Avi Lewis will make the NDP think big again

His victory is the rupture with the recent past that the party needed for a fresh start

31.03.2026 20

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Steven High

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

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

Richard Sakwa on the erosion of the post-1945 system and its consequences

30.03.2026 7

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Richard Sakwa

The price of letting others control our energy

The price of letting others control our energy

The solution to oil shocks is domestic control

29.03.2026 20

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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 10

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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 9

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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 20

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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 10

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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 20

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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 20

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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 30

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Chris Hedges

No Danny Boy

St. Patrick’s Day and the politics of forgetting

17.03.2026 10

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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 20

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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 20

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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 30

Canadian Dimension

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 20

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Judi Rever

The fossil fuel industry is replaying its 2022 war playbook

11.03.2026 40

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Nick Gottlieb

Will Trump chicken out of Iran invasion?

10.03.2026 20

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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 10

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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 20

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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 20

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Jasmine Ramze Rezaee

The wrong question about the war in Iran

10.03.2026 20

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Yakov M. Rabkin

Elbows up or hands up?

10.03.2026 20

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Derek Sayer

Carney’s Iran hypocrisy

10.03.2026 30

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Owen Schalk

Gangster imperialism comes for Iran

10.03.2026 20

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Judi Rever

The federal NDP’s ‘basket of deplorables’ moment

10.03.2026 20

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Leigh Phillips

The trades remain a danger zone—especially for women workers

11.02.2026 30

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Megan Kinch

Iran and the distorted accusation of ‘campism’

10.02.2026 30

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Yves Engler

The NDP and the parliamentary illusion

10.02.2026 20

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Ali Terrenoire

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

10.02.2026 10

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Nora Loreto

No blood money for the arts

09.02.2026 20

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Tiana Reid

It’s time for something bolder than Carney’s path of appeasement

07.02.2026 20

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Nick Gottlieb

Trump pushes Cuba toward catastrophe

07.02.2026 20

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Cam Scott

Empire, ecology, and Canada’s foreign policy ‘reset’

05.02.2026 30

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Laurie Adkin

Iran and the death of politics

05.02.2026 20

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Pierre Luc Junet

Why leaving the ‘rules-based order’ is harder than Carney thinks

03.02.2026 30

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Paul Robinson

What Mark Carney gets wrong about the end of the ‘rules-based order’

02.02.2026 40

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Muneeb Javaid

Critical education in an age of authoritarianism

29.01.2026 50

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Henry A. Giroux And William Paul

Rethinking the ‘Indian international student crisis’

26.01.2026 30

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Sheetala Bhat And Samuel Nithiananthan

A response to Herman Rosenfeld’s review of Red Flags

25.01.2026 40

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David Camfield

Canadian labour movement needs a wake-up call

25.01.2026 30

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Alex Passey

Mark Carney a Davos : si ça t’a fait vibrer, on a un problème

23.01.2026 30

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À Gauche

Bringing it all back home

22.01.2026 40

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Derek Sayer