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03/10/22
Author: 
Andrew Lodge
This drone photo shows the extensive damage caused by post-tropical storm Fiona in Port aux Basques, N.L. Fiona is yet another stark reminder of the havoc that awaits the planet and our species, writes Andrew Lodge. (Yan Theoret/CBC News)

Sept. 30, 2022

This column is an opinion by Andrew Lodge, the medical director at Klinic Community Health, a community health centre in downtown Winnipeg. For more information about CBC's Opinion section, please see the FAQ.

03/10/22
Author: 
Associated Press
A Yaqui Indigenous wears a bandana over his mouth as he walks through dust past the cemetery where slain water-defense leader Tomás Rojo is buried in Potam, Mexico, on Tuesday, Sept. 27, 2022. (AP Photo/Fernando Llano)

Sept. 29, 2022

Some 200 environmental and land defense activists were killed around the world in 2021, including some 54 in Mexico, which assumed the position of the deadliest country in the annual report by nongovernmental organization Global Witness.

01/10/22
Author: 
Chris Hedges
“The Bankruptcy of the Liberal Ass.” Illustration by Mr. Fish.

Sept. 30, 2022

01/10/22
Author: 
Kenny Stancil
Spanish Finance Minister María Jesús Montero addresses the senate on December 9, 2021 in Madrid. (Photo: Isabel Infantes/Europa Press via Getty Images)

Sept. 30, 2022

The country's finance minister said that looming changes are bound to make the tax code "more progressive, efficient, fair, and also enough to guarantee social justice and economic efficiency."

Spain's leftist coalition government on Thursday announced a series of downwardly redistributive fiscal reforms—including a temporary "solidarity" tax on the nation's 23,000 wealthiest residents—that lawmakers hope will ease the cost-of-living crisis hurting millions of working people.

30/09/22
Author: 
Friends of the Earth
My Money, My Say! poster

Canada Pension Plan (CPP) deductions are collected by the government and given to CPP Investments, an independent crown corporation tasked with investing our money on behalf of Canadians. The fund has grown to $523 billion making it one of the largest pension funds in the world.

Rather than use its huge power to help move Canada to a green economy, CPP Investments has chosen to support the polluting fossil fuel-based economy, while claiming climate change is important.

30/09/22
Author: 
Joe Matthews
US money - Photo by Pixabay

Sept. 28, 2022

Democracy vouchers can, in the short term, make campaigns fair, finally giving everyday people, and especially low-income people, a voice in our democracy.

Would our democracy work better if all of us were campaign donors?

That’s the proposition posed by democracy vouchers, an idea with Seattle origins that has reached the Golden State.

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