Win for Medicare

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Published on Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:36

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Because of you, we just won a massive victory to protect Canada’s public healthcare today.

In a landmark decision, Justice Steeves just dealt a huge blow to the efforts of Brian Day, aka Doctor Profit, to undermine Canada’s publicly-funded medicare system and turn it to a U.S.-style profit driven system. This decision ensures that access to health care in Canada will continue to be based on need and not on ability to pay.

And you were there since the first week of the trial when we made a big splash outside the BC Supreme Court.

Outside BC Supreme Court during the first week of the trial against Doctor Profit.

Since 2016, members like you chipped in to make sure top lawyers were able to testify at the hearings. And because of you, we were able to give a press conference outside the courthouse, and deliver nearly 40,000 signatures to Doctor Profit’s Cambie Surgeries Corporation.

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Weve pulled off the improbable

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Published on Thursday, 10 September 2020 15:30

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This historic legislation must not be delayed

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Published on Thursday, 10 September 2020 05:54

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Implementation legislation must not be delayed

CFSC was one of the signatories of a new open letter to the Minister of Justice calling for legislation to implement the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as soon as Parliament convenes this...

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Canada in the World

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Published on Thursday, 10 September 2020 03:12

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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 2189 ... September 10, 2020
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Canada in the World

Tyler Shipley

"When the European settlers arrived, they needed land to live on. The First Nations peoples agreed to move to different areas to make room for the new settlements." -- Complete Canadian Curriculum (Grade 3), 2017.

In 2017, the Complete Canadian Curriculum guide for third graders claimed that "the First Nations peoples moved to areas called reserves, where they could live undisturbed by the hustle and bustle of the settlers." This was a radical and absurd misrepresentation of Canadian history, but it was reflective of a longstanding ideological project to convince Canadians that their country is a well-intentioned contributor to the greater good of the world. In that version of history, Canada has been a haven for refugees, it has been a voice of reason in times of international crisis, it has sought to preserve peace when others wanted war, it has made sacrifices when war was necessary to defeat injustice, and it has helped other nations build prosperous and functional societies like the one Canada built after Indigenous...

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Were crashing Trudeaus cabinet meeting

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Published on Wednesday, 09 September 2020 07:06

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Friends,

Next Monday, Trudeau’s cabinet will meet to lay out their plans for an economic recovery. We can only hope it will be good enough to get people and communities through the worst health and economic crises of our lifetime.

To be honest, it doesn’t bode well that with every passing day, our government's sinking billions upon billions of dollars into the TransMountain (TMX) pipeline.

We’re ramping up pressure to make sure they have their priorities straight. Will you join in?

First off, join thousands to call on Prime Minister Trudeau and Minister Freeland to show us the true cost of TMX. Sign the petition now.

Next up, join us to make sure that these thousands of voices are heard. On September 14th at 10:00 am PT/ 1:00 PM ET, we will hold a massive e-rally to deliver thousands of signatures to Trudeau and Freeland right in the middle of their cabinet meeting. It will be a powerful moment with an incredible lineup of speakers and climate activists. RSVP to join in.

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Are you a civil liberties champion?

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Published on Wednesday, 09 September 2020 06:46

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Become a member now to be eligible to join the BCCLA board.

Dear Friend,

Our members come from a diverse range of individuals and communities, from all regions of the province and from across Canada. The passion for civil liberties and humans rights unites us; each one of our members is a supporter of the BCCLA because they believe in the value of our work.

Whether you follow and support the BCCLA for one issue or for all of them, your voice as a champion for civil liberties and human rights is one that needs to be heard.

Become a member now to be eligible to join the BCCLA Board of Directors in 2021.

The BCCLA Board of Directors is made up of some of our most committed members. These members are champions for civil liberties and human rights and have the experience, skills, and background to make an effective contribution to the governance of the BCCLA.

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Experiments in Free Transit

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Published on Wednesday, 09 September 2020 01:44

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Experiments in Free Transit

Joshua DeVries

Among the few positive aspects of the COVID-19 pandemic, some localities have taken the impressive step of implementing free transit. Several cities in Ohio, including Akron, Canton, Toledo and Youngstown announced free fares as of March 16. Towns in Vermont and Nevada have done so as well. Unfortunately, local officials are quite clear that these are only temporary for health purposes and will be reversed once it is "safe."

Over the last several decades, though, many cities around the world have experimented with free transit. Free Public Transit editors Judith Delheim and Jason Prince collect a dozen-and-half essays of these stories written by activists, academics and journalists involved in the issue. Many cities have reduced or even given free fares for specific groups, generally the elderly or students. Delheim and Prince compile pieces on more political efforts.

The main part of the book consists of 15 articles of implementation and struggles around free transit in 14 cities or regions. (Two chapters are about Bologna, Italy.) Half of...

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On the Current Crisis in Turkey-Greece Relations

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Published on Tuesday, 08 September 2020 02:02

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On the Current Crisis in Turkey-Greece Relations

Panagiotis Sotiris

Relations between Turkey and Greece are currently in a phase of escalating crisis. This development can be traced back to a number of reasons. Firstly, Turkey is in a phase of intensified “power projection” in its attempt to achieve the status of a regional power, something made evident in a series of choices: its involvement in the Syrian crisis (including invading to secure a “safe zone” and answer the ”existential” threat of a quasi-state Kurdish entity in North-East Syria), active involvement in the Libyan civil war (where it played a crucial role in changing the balance of forces in favour of the Tripoli government), and the way it pushes forward its particular version of a “just” division of drilling rights in the South-East Mediterranean.

Yet it is not simply about “oil.” It is about regional power status, nationalist aspirations, and leadership (Turkey has attempted to be the main force putting forward the political agenda of the Muslim Brotherhood). This political line can be described as...

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Become a BCCLA member

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Published on Monday, 07 September 2020 16:48

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Join the oldest and most active civil liberties organization in Canada.

Dear Friend,

Every day, the BCCLA is working tirelessly on a range of issues that affect you. From patients’ and prisoners’ rights, to CBSA and police accountability, and everything in between, our staff is fighting for your rights.

You might have a passion for one issue or for all of them. One thing is sure though; you’re a supporter of the BCCLA because you believe in the value of our work.

The ongoing work and the victories we share are only possible because of the commitment of our members to these issues.

Will you become a member of the BC Civil Liberties Association?

As a member, you will stand with us as we:

• Challenge unjust laws directly in the courts;

• Educate students and community members across Canada on their rights and freedoms;

• Monitor the government and private sector...

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Reading Capitalist Realism Ten Years On

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Published on Monday, 07 September 2020 01:56

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Reading Capitalist Realism Ten Years On

Matthew Flisfeder

Today, in the interregnum of the post-crisis, austerity-driven, global neoliberal capitalist society, we are confronted with a range of contradictions potentially threatening our very way of life on Earth. From looming ecological catastrophes and the threat of the capitalocene, to the rise of artificial intelligence and digital automation threatening stagnation, to refugee crises and culture wars, and even to a resurgence of new economic crises unforeseen by mainstream economists, it would appear as though it is more necessary than ever to challenge the old Thatcherite dogma that "there is no alternative" (TINA) to the existing system. That hopeless, cynical claim that even if capitalism is full of flaws and fissures, it is still the least bad system we’ve got, so grin and bear it…

But resisting this reified and disavowed root of the conundrum in the very capitalism that the TINA formula defends -- if we are to confront these problems head on -- perhaps it is time for us on the Left to be somewhat...

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Political Openings: Class Struggle During and After the Pandemic

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Published on Sunday, 06 September 2020 02:52

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Political Openings: Class Struggle During and After the Pandemic

Sam Gindin

For some on the left, the economic breakthrough brought on by the pandemic was the general consensus, not least among economists, for an astonishing increase in fiscal spending. Relative to the economy’s size, the stimulus introduced so far in the US is already double (in Canada triple) what it was during the 2008-09 crisis, with more to come. And the stimulus in that earlier crisis was the largest since WWII, leading the OECD to declare that the earlier intervention "now seems like a small-scale rehearsal for the [present] disruptions to our socioeconomic system."

The insistence by the adherents to Keynesianism and Modern Monetary Theory that there is generally more room for increases in public spending than governments let on, especially during deep crises, is valid. Their conclusion that something fundamental and perhaps permanent has changed in terms of looser spending constraints is seductive -- it would indeed make things easier if all that was needed was to elect the right people and have...

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Genocide

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Published on Saturday, 05 September 2020 22:32

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The Burmese military massacred Rohingya families, raped women and girls, and razed entire villages. Now Facebook is refusing to share the evidence which could prove that the military intended to commit genocide.

Let's raise a huge global outcry and demand that Facebook stop covering up these heinous crimes!

Sign the petition

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Three years ago, the Burmese military massacred Rohingya families, raped women and girls, and razed entire villages. 800,000 people were forced to flee to Bangladesh and are still facing a major humanitarian crisis.

Hate speech and disinformation about the Rohingya spread like wildfire on Facebook and fanned the flames of this genocide. Facebook took down much of the violence-inciting content, but now it's refusing to share the evidence which could prove that the Burmese military intended to commit genocide against the Rohingya.

But with Facebook under increasing scrutiny from the public and even its own employees, it could...

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Nigerians need your help

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Published on Saturday, 05 September 2020 06:02

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Announcing the Nigeria Solidarity Support Fund

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Court nears for Colombians who protested Canadian company

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Published on Wednesday, 18 November 2020 13:22

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