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by Our Schools / Our Selves on May 6, 2019 Twenty years ago, the Fraser Institute published a book called Facts, Not Fear with the goal of correcting the alleged misinformation schoolchildren were being exposed to in...Canadian mining companies are behaving badly in the Global South—and Wall Street is profiting from it
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