While world leaders are increasingly saying out loud that the postwar liberal world order is dead, the ruling classes in the Global North have an answer for what will come to replace it: fascism. Will they be able to implement their vision?
A guide to standing up to book bans and beyond, and how to protect and strengthen public education in Canada
It’s the foundation of the health care system, but the struggle to access primary care across Canada has become acute
Download 1.35 MB21 pages Business lobby groups have long complained of different consumer protection and health measures creating unreasonable “barriers” to trade and investment. They have now identified international co-operation, with industry input at the earliest stages of regulatory development, as the next great leap forward to shape globalization according…
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Far from it, says chief of holdout First Nation over deal with province on Site C In 2015, the Truth and Reconciliation Commission, which was tasked with informing all Canadians about what happened to Indigenous Peoples in residential schools, defined the word reconciliation as a process of “establishing and maintaining…
OTTAWA—The Comprehensive and Economic Trade Agreement (CETA) will result in significantly higher drug costs for Canadians, says a study released today by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives (CCPA). The study examines the latest revelations about the tentative trade agreement and finds it will: commit Canada to creating a new…
The federal government is sacrificing vital scientific capacity for ideological reasons—and hamstringing their own policymaking ability in the process
(This article was first published by Rabble.ca as part of the Up! Canadian Labour Rising series.) The Harper government has made new trade and investment agreements a cornerstone of its Economic Action Plan. Until recently, this has meant signing NAFTA-like treaties, most of which were started by the previous Liberal government.…
Photo of today’s protest outside the European Parliament by Blair Redlin of the Trade Justice Network.
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Germans protest CETA in November 2016 (Photo by Pay Numrich / Campact).
Last week, the Belgian region of Wallonia ground the signing of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement (CETA) to an unexpected halt. Although the Walloons have since won some concessions that persuaded them to let Belgium sign CETA (which is now proceeding to the ratification phase), their intervention was, or at…
An advertisement for Wallonia at the Brussels airport.