Book Launch: The Trudeau Formula w/Martin Lukacs

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Published on Sunday, 06 October 2019 02:34

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Book Launch: The Trudeau Formula w/Martin Lukacs

After a decade of Stephen Harper, the arrival of Justin Trudeau felt like a relief. But as Canadians reckon with the gulf between the dazzling promise of Trudeau’s election and the grim reality of his government, journalist Martin Lukacs makes the case that “real change” was never on the table.

Drawing on investigative research and first-hand reporting, he reveals that behind the new wave of Trudeaumania was a slick status-quo political machine, backed by a cast of corporate elites and lobbyists who expected a pay-off from Liberal rule in Ottawa.

Lukacs exposes a climate plan hatched in collaboration with Big Oil, the arming of a bloody Saudi war in Yemen, a reconciliation industry that has masked ongoing theft of Indigenous lands, and the sell-off of public infrastructure to private profiteers – a re-branded continuation, not a break, from Harper’s legacy.

But as the Trudeau Formula unravels, Lukacs warns that right-wing scapegoating politicians are misdirecting this growing discontent with the established order. The only way to defeat the...

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Did they listen?

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Orangutan shot 130 times

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Published on Saturday, 05 October 2019 07:02

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A young orangutan was shot 130 times outside a palm oil plantation. He didn’t survive -- but it’s not too late to save the last orangutans.

The companies responsible for this tragedy are meeting in five weeks in Thailand. Can you chip in to get us a seat at the table with palm oil bosses and force them to finally stop orangutan extinction?

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Bringing SNC-Lavalin to Mind in this Uninspiring Federal Election

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Published on Saturday, 05 October 2019 00:22

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Bringing SNC-Lavalin to Mind in this Uninspiring Federal Election

Leo Panitch

Who would have believed, just a few months ago, that the SNC-Lavalin scandal would scarcely have been registered so far as one of the key issues in the current Federal election? This has nothing to do with the short memories of our politicians or the voters. Rather it depressingly speaks to the narrow range of political discourse and policy options in this country.

The extraordinary lengths to which the Prime Minister’s Office went to prevent the prosecution of Montreal-based SNC-Lavalin certainly was related to protecting the jobs of those workers it employs in Quebec. But what makes Canada’s largest construction company ‘too big to fail’ is, of course, much more than this. SNC-Lavalin’s infrastructural engineering and productive capacities are unique not only in terms of their centrality to the mining and metallurgy as well as the oil and gas industries, but also to this country’s ecological infrastructure -- from transportation and hospitals to water and clean power.

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7 million at Climate Stirke

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Published on Friday, 04 October 2019 01:12

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It's been a week since the global climate strike, and the team at SumOfUs are still taking in the awe-inspiring power of the 7 million people that took part in the 4000 events, across the globe, last week to demand that we end the age of fossil fuels.

SumOfUs exists to hold corporations accountable. And corporations are absolutely responsible for the current climate crisis -- just 100 companies produce 71% of global carbon emissions.

I was proud that SumOfUs worked with organizations such as 350.org to invite millions of our members that want to create a safer, cleaner world together during the climate strikes.

During the climate strikes, I made sure to gather all the stories from around the globe of SumOfUs joining in solidarity at the different strikes, so I could report them back to you, A. It was incredible to see the action in real time of SumOfUs in over 8 locations and in 3 different continents and be a part of a movement of millions hitting the streets to stop catastrophic climate change.

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Excuse me, I'm upskilling

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Published on Thursday, 03 October 2019 07:02

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A victory for Beaver Lake Cree

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Published on Thursday, 03 October 2019 03:18

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What Happened in Sudan?

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Published on Thursday, 03 October 2019 01:46

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What Happened in Sudan?

Vijay Prashad

On 19 December 2018, an uprising began in Sudan. This uprising would culminate in the removal of Sudan’s president -- Omar al-Bashir -- from power on 11 April 2019. The army staged a conservative military coup to abort the revolutionary tide and keep the same old policies. It dissolved the parliament and established a two-year military regime led by the Transitional Military Council. The revolutionary forces -- galvanized into the Alliance of Freedom and Change, with the Sudanese Communist Party and the Sudanese Professionals Association at the front -- continued their march forward, determined to make a full revolution.

The clash between the Transitional Military Council and the Alliance of Freedom and Change continues. It could either result in an Egypt-like solution, where the military regime masquerades as a democratic party, or it could move forward with a revolutionary democracy.

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Internet Tax is back?!

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Published on Wednesday, 02 October 2019 08:50

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We're $2,000 away from our election fundraising goal.

Paov—We are short of the funds we need to demand that parties support our digital rights this election, and now we're hearing that the Internet Tax is back on the table.

If we're going to avoid cutting back on our work to defend Internet access and security before people vote, we need to raise $2,000 today. Will you rush an emergency donation right now?

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Canadian Elections and Palestinian Solidarity

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Published on Wednesday, 02 October 2019 02:02

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Canadian Elections and Palestinian Solidarity

Voting in elections in liberal democracies even at the best of times has always been the most limited of the many forms of political engagement and struggle. In matters of foreign policy, the ballot is even more gestural in that the political hegemony of the dominant classes is critically fused and enforced by a political consensus that stretches from the conservative right through liberalism to the mainstream social democratic left over inter-state relations and international alliances. Nowhere is this consensus more confined and policed by the parliamentary and ideological apparatuses of the state, elite networks, and the capitalist media than with respect to the Middle East and particularly the politics of Israel and the occupation and oppression of the Palestinian people. This has been the importance for the international solidarity movement with Palestine of the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) campaign. It has widened the space in Canada and other states for discussion of the continued Israeli occupation, house demolitions, apartheid practices, and ethnic cleansing of Palestine.

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We can't afford to lose this momentum

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"Justice Dies in the Darkness": The External Review of the Hassan Diab Case

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Published on Tuesday, 01 October 2019 03:42

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"Justice Dies in the Darkness": The ‘External Review’ of the Hassan Diab Case

Michelle Weinroth

When former Attorney-General Jody Wilson-Raybould declined Hassan Diab’s request for an independent and transparent public inquiry into his wrongful and harrowing extradition to France, he, along with his lawyer, and countless others, feared that justice would not be served. Hassan Diab – the Alfred Dreyfus of the 21st century, who, thanks to the collaborative work of French and Canadian prosecutors, languished in Fleury-Mérogis prison for more than three years only to be released without charge – saw the writing on the wall. The "external review" that Jody Wilson-Raybould had ordered, in lieu of a public inquiry, would constitute a whitewashing exercise. Indeed, when this very report, authored by Murray Segal, former deputy Attorney-General of Ontario, was finally released in July 2019, Dr. Diab’s deepest dread was confirmed.

Fielding questions at a press conference, Dr. Diab aptly described Mr. Segal’s external review as a form of Orwellian propaganda, a self-justificatory discourse that translates the misdeeds and defects of state institutions...

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Nestlé is suing this town

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Published on Monday, 30 September 2019 07:02

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The final legal showdown between Nestlé and this tiny town is just two days away. The brave residents of Osceola Township are giving everything they have to defend their water from Nestlé’s grab, but their legal costs have spiraled and they can’t make it to the finish line without you.

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Two Reports: The British Political Crisis and the Labour Party

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Published on Monday, 30 September 2019 02:04

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Two Reports: The British Political Crisis and the Labour Party

Britain’s Political Crisis: Problems and Possibilities for the Left

Kate Hudson

The British political crisis continues, with the latest developments consolidating the hard right takeover of the Tory Party and government that began with the Brexit referendum in 2016 and is now leading to the development of a potentially mass neo-fascist movement. This is taking place against the backdrop of similar developments across Europe and beyond.

The suspension of Parliament – a key stage in the UK process – has been defeated but Boris Johnson’s trajectory remains on track. The unanimous verdict of the Supreme Court, announced on Tuesday 24th September, was that Boris Johnson and the Tory government had acted unlawfully in proroguing parliament from the 9th September to the 14th October. It was for most an unexpected verdict and represented a deepening of the split within the establishment. The judiciary, or at least its most significant component, had sided with parliament against the government.

The most obvious and immediate effect...

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