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06/09/19
Author: 
PRESSE CANADIENNE

"We are kindly suggesting to our candidates that if they are uncomfortable talking about it or don't really have an opinion to say: 'I really don't want to comment on that question.' "

 August 23, 2019

The Green Party of Canada is asking its candidates to use caution when commenting on Quebec’s Bill 21, which bans the wearing of religious symbols by certain employees in the provincial public sector.

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05/09/19
Author: 
Geoff Dembick
‘The Liberals effectively act as a kind of shock absorber of discontent and anger towards the elite,’ says Martin Lukacs, a journalist and author of the new book, The Trudeau Formula. Photo by EJ Hersom, Creative Commons license CC BY 2.0.

Martin Lukacs’ book ‘The Trudeau Formula’ finds the Liberals talk a good game, but don’t deliver.

04 Sep 2019

Talk a good game about transforming society on behalf of the 99 per cent, while secretly assuring the one per cent that they have nothing to worry about.

02/09/19
Author: 
Jessica Corbett, staff writer
Students take part in a climate rally in London's Parliament Square on May 24, 2019. (Photo: Dan Kitwood/Getty Images)
 August 30, 2019

"We risk losing credibility with an entire generation of students if we cannot take action in support of the defining cause of their generation."
 
27/08/19
Author: 
Louis Proyect; Alexandra Minna Stern

[Editor: Below are two articles with differing points of view on the topic of climate change and the rise of eco-fascism]

1.

Could Climate Catastrophe Lead to Ecofascism?

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Aug. 25, 2019

https://truthout.org/articles/could-climate-catastrophe-lead-to-ecofascism/

25/08/19
Author: 
The Sunday Edition CBC

[Editor: A frightening account of the effects of climate change right now in India and the political, economic and social background to the suffering of people from climate change there.] 

Listen at link here 26/37

Aug 23, 2019

25/08/19
Author: 
Lee Fang

Aug/ 23, 2019

IN 2015, the World Health Organization’s cancer research arm, the International Agency for Research on Cancer, classified glyphosate, an active ingredient in the herbicide Roundup, as a “probable carcinogen,” setting off a global debate about the world’s most popular weedkiller.

23/08/19
Author: 
Wojciech Kębłowski
Photo of bus
 22.08.2019


Free public transport is not a pipe dream. It exists in over 100 cities across the world - and has transformative impacts.
 
If we are to believe transport experts and practitioners, abolishing fares for all passengers is the last thing public transport operators should be doing. For Alan Flausch, an ex-CEO of the Brussels public transport authority and current Secretary General of International Association of Public Transport, “in terms of mobility, free public transport is absurd.”

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