Maple Spring: The Red Square Movement Returns As Anti-Austerity Protests Heat Up In Quebec

Quebec's militant student actions have resulted in the lowest costs for post-secondary education in North America – and it has also meant less debt for young people entering a stagnant economy.

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“No More Stolen Sisters”: Why #NativeLivesMatter Is About More Than Policing

Indigenous women make up 4.3% of Canada's female population – but represent almost half of the number of women murdered in the country.

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Chaos In the Mediterranean: How Humanitarian Hawks and Mainstream Media Misled the World On Libya

As high-level discussions ensue about whether, and how, to embark on an expanded mission to battle ISIS, the cliche rings truer than ever that "those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it."

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Why A Loss for Chicago’s Mayor 1% Could Be the Win Progressives Have Been Waiting For

Rahm Emanuel’s cascade of calamities points to larger problems within a Democratic party being tugged by neoliberals of the Clinton/Obama school and forces that oppose the party's long rightward drift.

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Fear Incorporated: Canada’s Anti-Terror Bill and the Emergence of a Deep Police State

Bill C-51 represents a clear erosion of constitutional rights – if the bill becomes law, blocking a pipeline or organizing a protest without permission from authorities would be considered terrorism.

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Medical Injustice: Trans-Pacific Partnership Enriches Big Pharma at Cost Of People’s Health

Through "evergreening,” pharmaceutical companies could could retain ownership of and royalties to drugs for which their patents have expired – limiting access to generic forms of medicine that millions need.

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In Pursuit of Justice, Two Northern California Communities Experiment With Police Reform

For communities elsewhere seeking to reform and improve policing policies, perhaps the cases of Richmond and Sonoma County can point a way forward.

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“New Model Cities” In Honduras Would Hand All Power to Corporations

So-called Special Economic Development Zones will not only be economically independent, but they'll be exclusively governed by corporations, both local and international, which will create and enforce their own laws.

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Manufacturing Terror: How the FBI Invents Some Plots, and Ignores Others, In the War on Freedom

Most Americans know there have been dubious prosecutions in the FBI’s ongoing effort to thwart terror attacks on American soil – but unfortunately, it seems many Americans are too scared to care.

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Blood on Their Hands: Corporate Media's Respose to the CIA Torture Report and #BlackLivesMatter

Whether the subject is torture or the shooting of unarmed citizens, America’s mainstream news media offer the same basic points of view and rarely live up to their intended adversarial role – to hold government in check.

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