Original articles by Citizens' Press
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Let's talk: Québec's non-partisan effort to find solutions for a better province | What's Left
Québec just finished consultations on what the people want from their democracy. Called Faut qu'on se parle (Let's talk), the group which included some big names across the political sphere have released their findings.
Resource allocation and building worker power | What's Left
Union organizing is a process workers undertake to come together, sometimes under adversarial conditions, and bring positive, meaningful change to their workplace.
WikiLeaks Move to Share CIA Hacking Tools with Tech Giants Could 'Make Us All Safer' | Democracy Now!
Wealthy Canadians exposed in KPMG offshore tax 'sham' | CBC
'In its internal marketing pitches, KPMG solicited Canadians with a 'minimum' of $5 million to invest in an 'Offshore Company Structure,' charging clients $100,000 simply to start it up. KPMG also guaranteed confidentiality.'
A cautionary tale about political grandstanding | What's Left
Special contribution by Mike Fancie: Fortunately for progressive organizers, the Liberal government has racked up a remarkable rap sheet of broken promises in just over a year of power. Aside from recent electoral reform and Syrian immigration backpedaling, the Liberals have failed to fund First Nations education, they haven't repealed a word of Bill C-51, and they're following the same emissions targets set by Stephen Harper. Heck, even Katimavik is publicly begging Trudeau to follow through on his promise to re-fund its youth leadership programming.
Reuters reporting Trump to remove federal funding to fight violent White Supremacists, targets Muslims
Reports have come through that the US government will be renaming and redirecting its efforts to address violent extremists away from all violent extremism unless they are 'Islamic Extremists'.
Neil Gorsuch, Trump's Supreme Court Pick, Has History of Ruling Against Workers, Women & Regulation | Democracy Now!
Write to your Member of Parliament about Trump's travel ban targeting refugees | Citizens' Press
Are you wondering what you can do to fight Donald's Trump travel ban on members of the Muslim community and refugees? Do you want to do something to combat Islamophobia and racism here in Canada? You can start by writing a letter to your Member of Parliament to urge them to repeal the Canada-US Safe Third Country Agreement and publicly condemn the travel ban.
Organized opposition to Trump still comes from the same places | What's Left
The 'far-right' is really just the politics of division. The liberal press call it 'populism', but in reality it is the opposite of that. Trump is an expression of power of the elite social minority. In many ways, in the US and other countries where the far-right has won, we are witnessing the replacement of the liberal elite minority with the another elite minority: those who are unconstrained in their use of social aggression and violence. It is for this reason that socialists are the ones who will be leading the battle against the rise of the far-right.