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NDP Deserves Credit For Dramatically Improving COVID-19 Benefits
If the Liberals had a majority government, their aid package wouldn’t have been as responsive to the needs of Canadians.
The Left’s WW2 Welfare State Fight Is A Model For Pandemic Politics
If COVID-19 provides a similar opportunity for the advancement of social policy, the Canadian left will have to fight for it to be realized.
Healthcare Workers Deserve More Than Hero Memes
The use of inspirational imagery distracts us from the government’s failure to protect healthcare workers.
John Ivison’s Attack On CERB Recipients Is Disgraceful
Pushing people back to work in the middle of a pandemic is a dangerous idea driven by hostility to welfare, not evidence or facts.
Corporate Tax Cheats Don’t Deserve COVID-19 Bailouts
These companies are stealing your money. Why should we reward them with bailouts?
COVID-19 Has Demolished A Central Myth Of Capitalism
The pandemic is laying bare the myths of value, meritocracy and equality of opportunity that underwrite capitalist wage inequities.
COVID-19 Has Exposed The Horrors Of Long-Term Care Facilities
Canada's sub-standard long-term care system is killing the elderly.
Can Rich People Be Socialists?
This is a genuine ethical question that deserves de-mystification for socialists and onlookers with questions.
The CERB Will Force Students To Go Into Debt Or Dropout
Expanding the Canada Summer Jobs is not a solution to the CERB’s major flaws.