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Ed Finn
A Not-So-Crazy Conspiracy Theory
If this crisis doesn’t discredit capitalism, what will? There’s this cartoon about two cows. The first cow has just figured out, to her horror and shock, how hamburgers are made….
The decline of collectivity
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Attacks on public sector and public employees inflict just as much damage on the private sector
The labourer is worthy of his hire. —Luke.X.7 In the early 1960s, while I was working for the Canadian Labour Congress in Corner Brook, the paper mill unions won a…
The gilded bunker: How the super-rich plan to survive the collapse of civilization
To the greedy, all nature is insufficient.—Seneca. We now live in a world in which eight men are as rich as 3.6 billion people — half of the planet’s inhabitants….
The mock doctrine: How elites silence dissent
Where the press is truly free, and everyone is able to read, all is safe. —Thomas Jefferson. The brooding statue of Giordano Bruno in the Campo del Fiori in Rome…
Beyond Banksters is an eye-opening exposé of a ravenous financial system
A review of Beyond Banksters: Resisting the New Feudalism, by Joyce Nelson, Watershed Sentinel Books, 164 pages, $20.00Over the course of my 70-plus years as a journalist, I’ve reviewed hundreds…
Delay in dealing with global warming exposes planet’s inhabitants to the Sixth Extinction
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Let’s try to preserve the clarity of English composition
Of all the arts in which the wise excel, Nature’s chief masterpiece is writing well.—Anonymous. A disgruntled reader of the Ottawa Citizen recently complained in a letter to the editor about…
Hurrahs for the “death of neoliberalism” are premature
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Real health care would be maintaining wellness, not treating illness
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Growing old is no great accomplishment, but staying healthy is
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A tribute to Mel Hurtig
When author, publisher and activist Mel Hurtig died on Wednesday, Canada lost one of its most ardent champions and defenders. Renowned as the publisher of The Canadian Encyclopedia in 1991, Mel devoted…
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