Canada
When Canada became a dictatorship: 50 years after Quebec’s ‘October Crisis’
October 20, 2020When the tensions of national oppression boiled over in October 1970, for a brief period Canada effectively became a dictatorship.
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Trudeau parades as workers’ defender, but Canada’s unemployed face ‘disaster capitalism’
September 15, 2020With a minority government in the midst of a pandemic and the worst economic crisis in a century, the Liberals are vulnerable to pressure from labor and the left.
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Québec workers fight back against government’s corporate-friendly COVID-19 response
July 29, 2020Just like everywhere else, the COVID-19 pandemic has shaken the economy, with governments and capital straining to contain progressive resistance to their corporate-friendly management of the crisis.
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COVID-19 exposes austerity attacks on Canada’s public health system in Ontario
March 30, 2020The health system was already straining under neoliberal austerity even before the pandemic struck.
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Canada says Palestine not a state, ICC can’t investigate Israeli war crimes
February 27, 2020The Trudeau government dangled its $10.6 million financial contribution to the court as a reminder.
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