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20/10/22
Author: 
Mark Gruenberg
Train - Gene J. Puskar / AP

Oct. 18, 2022

LAS VEGAS—For the first time in slightly more than 100 years Railroad Workers United, is demanding public ownership of railroad infrastructure in the U.S., Canada, and Mexico. Then, railroads “would be operated in the public interest,” it says.

Unlike the major media in the U.S. which tries to divorce the threat to democracy from the fight for economic justice, their call for nationalization, clearly a demand for economic democracy, is an aspect of democracy that papers like the New York Times don’t touch with a ten-foot pole.

19/10/22
Author: 
CBC - The Early Edition
Anjali Appadurai in Burnaby, B.C., on Sept. 17. The B.C. NDP leadership candidate now faces being disqualified after the official in charge of the race said she broke campaign rules. (Darryl Dyck/The Canadian Press)

Oct. 19, 2022

Candidate says she did nothing wrong after report said she improperly used third parties for membership drive

 

The official in charge of the B.C. NDP's leadership race has recommended candidate Anjali Appadurai be disqualified after an investigation into a wave of new membership sign-ups during the campaign, according to a leaked report.

19/10/22
Author: 
CBC - The Early Edition
Anjali Appadurai

Website editor: Take a listen to this!  Very good points made here!

Oct. 19, 2022:

The BC NDP will vote tonight whether or not to disqualify Anjali Appadurai, after the climate activist and leadership hopeful is alleged to have engaged in "serious improper conduct". We hear from political science professor Hamish Telford to get his reaction.

18/10/22
Author: 
Al Jazeera English; Reuters
France begins nationwide strikes, copes with major disruptions

Oct. 18, 2022
French trade unions have begun a nationwide strike to demand higher
salaries amid the highest inflation in decades, one of the biggest
challenges to President Emmanuel Macron since his reelection in May.

Tuesday’s strike, which primarily affects public sectors such as schools
and transportation, is an extension of the weeks-long industrial action
that has disrupted France’s major refineries and put petrol stations’
supply in disarray.

18/10/22
Author: 
Rumneek Johal
Right-Wing Group Funded by Lululemon Founder Helped Promote Film Demonizing Vancouver’s Homeless

Oct. 14, 2022

A group funded by Lululemon founder Chip Wilson sponsored an event that brought together Vancouver’s police union and right-wing political activists

Vancouver’s police union president, city council candidates and far-right political activists came together at a film screening event last week that was sponsored by an organization funded by the founder of Lululemon.

17/10/22
Author: 
Richard Zussman
Anjali Appadurai is now in the running to become the next leader of the BC NDP. Global News

Oct. 17, 2022

BC NDP leadership hopeful Anjali Appadurai is promising a sweeping climate action plan including free transit in urban centres, an immediate moratorium on new fossil fuel extraction permits and a new oil and gas excess profits tax.

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