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Jon Milton
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“Working class conservatism” is a bait-and-switch scam. Stop taking it at face value.
In 1980, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) was in heated negotiations with the U.S. federal government. The government, under Democrat Jimmy Carter, had…
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Half measures not good enough
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press May 18, 2024
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Saskatchewan teachers’ strike is a fight over the future of public education
With public support firmly behind teachers as they continue to take job action, the Saskatchewan government has ramped up its efforts to reshape public opinion about its…
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Quebec is cutting arts funding. Artists are fighting back.
You could hear the music from blocks away. More than a thousand dancers, painters, clowns, musicians, poets, and other cultural workers came out in Montreal…
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What next for electoral reform in Canada in the wake of M-86?
No consensus. That’s how Justin Trudeau explained his decision to abandon the electoral reform file in 2017, following one of the most extensive consultation processes…
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Genetically modified corn trade fight heats up in Mexico
Key dates in the GM corn dispute Dec. 31, 2020: Mexican president Andrés Manuel López Obrador (commonly referred to as AMLO) announces in a decree…
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Federal government goes big on housing—is it enough?
The federal government’s 2024 budget includes generational investments on housing affordability and runs a victory lap on health care expansion, but it is quiet on…
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Cities are central to capitalism—and could be central to its undoing
The decades after the French Revolution were tumultuous in Paris. Every few years, it seemed, the popular classes, made up of the poor and oppressed…
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Taking back our cities
When I was living in Edmonton, I managed to snag one of the (relatively) rare apartments in that city where you could walk to the…
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Building the trades
Previously published in the Winnipeg Free Press, Tuesday March 19, 2024
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Austerity and income assistance
The effects of austerity measures of the previous Conservative provincial government in Manitoba were very visible in sectors such as health care and education. Virtually…
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