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Why is Canada so offside with world opinion on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict?

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Trudeau has continued Harper's blanket support for Israel in recent UN votes and in the process left Canada isolated from almost all other nations.

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Basic Canadian civic rights are being whisked away by the Trudeau government

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The Liberal government is in the process of passing an extraordinary piece of legislation, C-23, which effectively cedes Canadian sovereignty to U.S. border officials.

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Trudeau prepares to cede Canadian sovereignty to U.S. border officials
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Kinder Morgan opponents move forward with legal challenges against pipeline

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While governments may have announced their support for Kinder Morgan's Trans Mountain pipeline, opponents are continuing to strengthen their fight against the project in court.

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Lawsuits pile up as Kinder Morgan opponents prepare next pipeline battleground in the courts
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Annual Women's Memorial March in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside

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On February 14, the Women's Memorial March continues to honour the lives of missing and murdered women and all women’s lives lost in the Downtown Eastside.

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Annual Women's Memorial March in Vancouver's Downtown Eastside
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B.C. government's budget priorities are all out of whack

Finance Minister Mike De Jong is promoting a balanced budget, but the reality is much bleaker.

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Dear B.C. Liberals: Your budget priorities need fixing.
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Trudeau's broken promise on electoral reform may cost him the next election

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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau may have already burned the bridges he built, both to the left and to the right, that won him a majority government in 2015.

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As burned bridges pile up, Trudeau's re-election may already be out of reach
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Colombia's resistance to Canadian mining interests is multi-faceted and fearless

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Indigenous people, Afro-Colombians, union leaders, farmers, students and academics in Colombia confront Canadian mining companies.

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Colombia's resistance to Canadian mining interests is multi-faceted and fearless
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KAIROS releases social justice wish list for Canada in 2017

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Last January, KAIROS released its wish list for the year -- 10-plus-one hopes for the federal government and the provinces to fulfill.

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11 wishes for 2017 that will make Canada greener, more just and more equal
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How to identify fake news in an 'alternative fact' climate

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With online news accounting for so much of what we see and learn, a smart Internaut needs ways to assess the increasingly startling reports that other people share.

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Media literacy in a post-fact age
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What happens when the extreme right moves front and centre

Steve Bannon's political ideology stems Clash of Civilization theories and fear of the other.

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Unmasking the extreme right threatening U.S. liberal democracy
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