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In so far as participating in bourgeois democracy remains a component of socialist strategy in Canada, voters on the Left are largely limited electorally to the New Democratic Party (NDP). As with many western socialist and social democratic parties, however, the federal NDP has been following a steady course of neoliberalization over the past decades. The party’s commitment to the workers’ movement and its own foundational labour-centred principles have been jettisoned in favour of a far more moderate political project.

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Canada

There's another pandemic under our noses, and it kills 8.7m people a year

08/04/21

Author:

Rebecca Solnit

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The Guardian

‘Climate change is invisible, in everyday political consciousness, because it occurs on a scale too vast in time and space to see with the naked eye and because it concerns imperceptible phenomena such as atmospheric composition.’ Photograph: Jeff Zehnder/Alamy

Apr. 2, 2021

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Climate Change

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Bill Gates is the biggest private owner of farmland in the United States. Why?

08/04/21

Author:

Nick Estes

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The Guardian

Bill Gates - ‘Land is power, land is wealth, and, more importantly, land is about race and class. The relationship to land – who owns it, who works it, and who cares for it – reflects obscene levels of inequality and legacies of colonialism and white supremacy.’ Photograph: Denis Balibouse/Reuters

Apr. 5, 2021

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Small farms beat out Big Ag in biodiversity, crop yields: study

08/04/21

Author:

Cloe Logan

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National Observer

Smaller farms produce more food per acre, according to a new study from the University of British Columbia. Photo courtesy of Pexels / Wendy Wei

April 8th 2021

Smaller farms produce more food and have more biodiversity than their larger counterparts, a new study has found.

With about a third of the world's food coming from farms two hectares in size or smaller, the findings point to a need for better global policies to support smaller, more diversified farms, say the researchers behind the University of British Columbia (UBC) analysis.

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Slow Vaccine Rollout in Poor Countries Threatens Global Economy

07/04/21

Author:

Jeff Stein

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Washington Post

Apr. 6, 2021

Republican opposition to treasury secretary’s global initiatives has intensified in recent weeks

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"Big Brother" Legal Research Firm Paid Millions to Aid ICE Deportations

07/04/21

Author:

Sam Biddle

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The Intercept

April 2 2021

The company signed a contract with an ICE division that plays a key role in deportations.

THE POPULAR LEGAL RESEARCH and data brokerage firm LexisNexis signed a $16.8 million contract to sell information to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement, according to documents shared with The Intercept. The deal is already drawing fire from critics and comes less than two years after the company downplayed its ties to ICE, claiming it was “not working with them to build data infrastructure to assist their efforts.”

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Green New Deal up for debate at Liberal, NDP conventions

07/04/21

Author:

Carl Meyer

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National Observer

Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, right, at a Green New Deal event in 2019 in New York. Corey Torpie Photo / Instagram

April 7th 2021

Liberal and NDP national conventions being held this week are both set to feature policy proposals that would embrace a “Green New Deal” for Canada.

The 2021 Liberal National Convention runs April 8 to 10, while the NDP’s Convention 2021 runs April 9 to 11. Both events are being held virtually.

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Jagmeet Singh needs to get serious about climate change

07/04/21

Author:

Cameron Fenton

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National Observer

By ceding the climate ground to Trudeau, Jagmeet Singh and the NDP are allowing him to wrongly define what climate action looks like, writes Cameron Fenton. File photo by Alex Tétreault

April 7, 2021

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The Supreme Court’s Carbon Tax Ruling Is Hardly A Climate Victory

04/04/21

Author:

Emma Jackson

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Passage

Imperial Oil - Photo via Kurt Bauschardt.

Mar. 30, 2021

If we continue to equate carbon pricing with ambitious climate action, we’ll stay on track to sous vide the planet within a decade.

This past Thursday, Canada’s Supreme Court delivered a blow to Conservative premiers across the country, ruling that the federal government’s imposed carbon tax is constitutional.

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The company signed a contract with an ICE division that plays a key role in deportations.

If we continue to equate carbon pricing with ambitious climate action, we’ll stay on track to sous vide the planet within a decade.

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