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Linda Mcquaig

Linda Mcquaig

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The heartbreaking narrative of Palestinian history

The horrific events in Gaza are presented in our media outlets under the bland and misleading heading “the Israeli-Hamas” war. The term “war”...

10.04.2024 4

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Brian Mulroney’s legacy is built on corporate profits made at the expense of workers

The first real glimpse Canadians got of Brian Mulroney could have been a political career-ender. It was February 1983, and he was the front-runner in...

22.03.2024 6

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Pierre Poilievre bows to Donald Trump

So let me get this straight. Pierre Poilievre is going to make life more affordable for Canadians. Yet he’s going to ramp up our military spending...

22.02.2024 7

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Ford’s new infrastructure bank will likely exacerbate problems in long-term care

It seems like a good rule-of-thumb that the housing of frail and vulnerable people should not be left to those with a voracious appetite for profit. ...

09.02.2024 5

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Canada could help Palestinians achieve statehood

By now, we’ve all heard the horrific reports of children in Gaza undergoing amputations without anaesthetic or being buried alive under rubble. ...

25.01.2024 4

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Ottawa supports Big Oil over the climate

One can only imagine the positive buzz these days inside the boardrooms of Canada’s oil companies, as they rake in record profits and plan major...

12.01.2024 3

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Canada’s mRNA contribution helped Big Pharma, but left out global poor

Canada played a little-known heroic role in the development of the COVID vaccine, but we failed to use our crucial contribution to insist that the...

14.12.2023 3

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Big Pharma expecting big win from Trudeau

It looks like Big Pharma will soon be doing a victory dance. I hope I’m wrong, but it appears that years of intense lobbying by the powerful...

16.11.2023 10

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Canada fails to add its voice to worldwide plea for humanity in Gaza

Twenty years ago, in one of Canada’s greatest moments on the world stage, Prime Minister Jean Chretien announced that Canada would not join the US...

03.11.2023 5

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Canada must call for an end to Israel’s use of collective punishment

“Why should we complain of their hatred for us? Eight years have they sat in the refugee camps of Gaza and seen, with their own eyes, how we have...

19.10.2023 7

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Poilievre says he supports workers, but not when they’re on the picket line

Pierre Poilievre seems to pop up with his populist message everywhere these days. But even though he’s out to woo working class voters, one place...

22.09.2023 2

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Canada needs a digital infrastructure that isn’t beholden to private interests

Like the Railroad Barons of the late 19th century, today’s Big Tech giants strut around, acting like they own the world (which they mostly do)....

08.09.2023 6

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