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What happened to liberal politicians? Sadly, they got smart. | Feb 17 2017 | Rick Salutin | Smartness has subtly insinuated itself everywhere -- except, apparently, among voters. Smart won't ever replace fair; that's just stupid.

Liberals' pension reforms fall woefully short for Canadian workers | Feb 17 2017 | Doug Macpherson, Retiree Matters | While changes to the Canada Pension Plan (CPP) recently adopted by the current federal Liberal government offer some improvement, they do not go far enough.

B.C. only province in Canada without poverty reduction plan | Feb 16 2017 | Redeye Collective | Low welfare rates, minimal childcare support and skyrocketing rents mean B.C. has one of the highest poverty rates in Canada. The B.C. Poverty Reduction Coalition is organizing a week of action.

Black youth opposing gentrification and empowering community | Feb 15 2017 | Scott Neigh | Kyturea Jones, Payton Ashe and Donntayia Jones talk about Halifax's North End Community Action Committee.

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Leduc No. 1 and Alberta's unluckiest lucky day | Feb 14 2017 | David J. Climenhaga | Maybe higher oil prices will be back soon, but the realities of the market, and the realities of the biosphere, won't be changed by the ideology of capitalism.

Adam Sneyd on Cotton, Globalization and Clothing Poverty.

Adam Sneyd on 'Cotton,' globalization, commodities and clothing poverty | Feb 8 2017 | Face2Face | Adam talks about his book Cotton, its empire, commodities and politics, "clothing poverty" and anti-globalization and why we need to be concerned about how the world works.

Plastic and capitalism are killing ocean life | Jan 31 2017 | Yves Engler | The world's oceans are set to have more plastic than fish by 2050. Based on externalizing costs and privatizing profits, 21st-century capitalism is turning our seas into a plastic blob.

Buffoon or manipulator, Trump rightfully inspires fear | Jan 27 2017 | Rick Salutin | Which Trump were you watching last weekend? The moronic mediocrity or the shrewd new president who dealt with an economic abyss that no one else over the past 30 years dared touch?

Trump and Trudeau's 'stealth privatization' will be at the taxpayer's expense | Jan 26 2017 | Alex Hemingway | If Trump's infrastructure plan is a "privatization scam," what should we call ours?

We need to work less to live better | Jan 25 2017 | David Suzuki | A lot needs to be done to reform our economic systems and to address critical issues like pollution and climate change. Reducing work hours is one way to make substantial gains.

Trumponomics unsettles Trudeau with threats to Canada-U.S. trade | Jan 24 2017 | Duncan Cameron | With the advent of Donald Trump, international trade has taken centre stage in U.S. politics. Trumponomics suggests that the rest of the world has been cheating the U.S. out of jobs and wealth.

Canadian marchers push back against Trump; politicians get on his train | Jan 24 2017 | Karl Nerenberg | Trump's rhetoric about helping the forgotten people turns out to mean cutting taxes and regulations for the 1%. Canadian Conservatives embrace him while Liberals try to get along.

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A rare warning from a bank that fuels the housing market bubble SeekingAPoliticalHome said... http://www.bnn.ca/bmo-declares-toronto-housing-bubble-amid-dangerously-h... Toronto is a...

Direct and immediate impact on Canada of Trump bullying NDPP said... NAFTA Renegotiations Cannot Be Another Backroom Deal https://secure.canadians.org/ea-action/action?...

Renegotiating medicare's exemptions under NAFTA Kaspar Hauser said... Thomas Walkom believes that Medicare is up for grabs in NAFTA renegotiations: https://www.thestar....

Canada Employment Report SeekingAPoliticalHome said... https://youtu.be/Y8dVfxN7SFw I just created a 17 minute video on employment in Canada....

Chrystia Freeland set for free trade talks with China NDPP said... So scary I screwed up the URL... try this: http://www.cbc.ca/news/politics/freeland-china-free-...

Liberal infrastructure plans to be paid for via privatization mark_alfred said... http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/mps-grill-morneaus-growth-a... If they follow through...

White men in U.S. are dealing poorly with economic despair SeekingAPoliticalHome said... https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2016/feb/07/suicide-rates-rise-butte... I have hearing about...

Discontent in China SeekingAPoliticalHome said... http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/101east/2016/09/china-economy-160913... I have posted before on...

Automation and Jobs SeekingAPoliticalHome said... I put up a thread a couple weeks back about manufacturing being sent to...

Canada debt spotlight SeekingAPoliticalHome said... You hear a lot of talk of government debt being a problem but you rarely hear about other sectors...

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