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URGENT: Canada's Internet access in danger
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- Published on Monday, 25 June 2018 09:56
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In Canada, our access to the Internet is under attack....
Ontario Looks Right
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- Published on Sunday, 24 June 2018 20:58
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1630 ... June 25, 2018
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Ontario Looks Right
Herman Rosenfeld
While U.S. socialists have always challenged the myth of American exceptionalism -- that the U.S. is immune to class struggle and a politics linked to it -- they tend to have the opposite view of Canadian politics: that the latter is somehow exceptional, rooted in a classic social-democratic and even socialist political culture that makes it immune to reactionary trends like Trumpism and the right-wing populist wave around the world.
But Canada, and its industrial heartland and largest province of Ontario, is far from immune from these forces. Case in point: the June 7 election of a right-wing populist government of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario (PC), led by politician and businessman Doug Ford.
Canada has gone...
One more thing you can do...
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- Published on Sunday, 24 June 2018 09:03
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Mexico Elections and NAFTA
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- Published on Saturday, 23 June 2018 21:58
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Mexico Elections and NAFTA
Despite fierce opposition from Big Business and the media, Andrés Manuel López Obrador is likely to be elected President of Mexico on July 1 and have a majority in both houses of Congress. How did this rejection of the major parties come about? Is he a "leftist" or "populist" as widely purported in the North American press? What kind of change can be expected? What obstacles will the new government face?
Part 1: AMLO Needs to Win by 15% For This to Stick
Dr. John Ackerman (professor of Law at UNAM), discusses the myth of the transition to democracy in Mexico, the looming prospect of fraud in the upcoming presidential election, and the promise of a progressive government led by Andrés Manuel López Obrador.
Part 2: The...
Canadian Solidarity with Palestine
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- Published on Friday, 22 June 2018 22:31
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1629 ... June 23, 2018
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A Call for the NDP to Withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group
The undersigned are appalled by the recent deaths in Gaza. At least 110 Palestinians have been killed and thousands injured by sniper fire and noxious gas used by the Israeli military. The recent violence takes place alongside ongoing land theft, destruction of olive groves, construction of Jewish-only roads, imprisonment without due process and a blockade of Gaza. During its 70-year history Israel has been as unjust toward Palestinians as the white-ruled apartheid state was to Black South Africans.
We are concerned that members of parliament would seek to strengthen relations with a country systematically violating Palestinian rights.
In particular, we are dismayed that NDP justice critic Murray Rankin and NDP defence critic...
Illegally detained in a Russian prison?
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- Published on Friday, 22 June 2018 04:01
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That's terrible, that's Tetley! - tea workers denied their human right to safe drinking water
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- Published on Friday, 22 June 2018 01:47
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Coca-Cola is becoming a serial human rights offender
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- Published on Friday, 22 June 2018 01:03
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Doug Ford -- Ontario's Donald Trump?
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- Published on Thursday, 21 June 2018 22:22
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1628 ... June 22, 2018
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Doug Ford -- Ontario’s Donald Trump?
Canadians are dealing with their own election aftermath after Doug Ford, a leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Ontario and a figure some compare to U.S. President Donald Trump, was elected premier of the province earlier this month. Todd Gordon is author of Imperialist Canada and teaches at Wilfrid Laurier University at Brantford. He answered questions from Ashley Smith about what led to Ford’s election and what this means for Canadian politics.
Ashley Smith (AS): The election results in Ontario are very disturbing. Who is Doug Ford and how did he win?
Todd Gordon (TG): The Conservative Party (known in Ontario as the Progressive Conservatives, or PC) won the Ontario election with 40 per cent of the...
Every nook and cranny
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- Published on Friday, 05 October 2018 11:40
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Send Solidarity to Women Striking for a Living Wage!
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- Published on Thursday, 21 June 2018 06:37
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Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 21:12
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A Socialist Project e-bulletin ... No. 1627 ... June 21, 2018
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Grieve the Beloved Children: Israel and the War on Children
Judith Deutsch
The Palestinian Health Ministry reported on June 1st that a beautiful young woman medic, Razan Ashraf Najjar, 21, was the second medic to be killed by Israeli army fire since March 30th. To date, Israel has killed 130 and injured more than 13,400 non-violent people in Gaza for protesting the siege. Among the injured are 238 medics, 29 shot with live fire after being directly targeted with high-velocity gas bombs.
Still, Israel is accorded impunity. Even when crimes are acknowledged, they "may" constitute a war crime or a crime against peace (Nuremberg), Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s entire infrastructure "may" render Gaza unliveable by 2017, 2018, 2019 or 2020, Gaza "may" be a...
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 17:00
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...ACTIVlist Update - June 20, 2018
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 14:04
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Sask. government evicts Indigenous protest camp to make room for Canada Day celebrations
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British Columbia, tell your Governor to protect bees.
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 10:55
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Australia: Exxon Mobil - time for a fair deal for your workers
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- Published on Wednesday, 20 June 2018 07:15
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Canadian government denies experiential truth of solitary confinement
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 June 2018 15:45
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ACTIVlist Update - June 19, 2018
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- Published on Tuesday, 19 June 2018 12:59
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Tourism industry calls on BC Premier Horgan to cancel the tenures for open-pen fish farms Trump's child separation policy renews calls to suspend the Safe Third Country Agreement
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The provincial government of BC premier John Horgan will be announcing a crucial decision about fish farm tenures within hours.
The Council of Canadians shares in the global outrage at the Trump administration's policy of separating children from their parents crossing the United States-Mexico border...
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