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Food and Hunger
July 22, 2015, Comments Off on Food and Hunger

New rice variety could feed the planet without warming it (Science) A new type of genetically modified (GM) rice might s ...

Reasonable Accommodation 2011 – Updates
January 10, 2014, 1 Comment

Raheel Raza: Competing Human Rights in Canada Reasonable accommodation is good when not imposed from the top down. Reaso ...

English-speaking seniors in Quebec
November 19, 2013, Comments Off on English-speaking seniors in Quebec

Seniors Action Quebec Getting services in own language can be a battle for Quebec’s rural English-speaking seniors (Gl ...

How the One Percent think
November 29, 2012, Comments Off on How the One Percent think

Paul Krugman: Class Wars of 2012 On Election Day, The Boston Globe reported, Logan International Airport in Boston was r ...

Margaret Somerville: What is happening in Quebec
June 4, 2012, Comments Off on Margaret Somerville: What is happening in Quebec

Many young people in Quebec, with good reason, do not believe they have a voice in the public square, writes Margaret So ...

Rights & Democracy Canada 2010 -2012
April 6, 2012, 1 Comment

Rights and Democracy  And now, the sad end of the story (Toronto Star editorial): By shutting down Rights & Democra ...

Year-end 2011 Summary
December 31, 2011, Comments Off on Year-end 2011 Summary

ANALYSIS | How historic was 2011? (CBC) You know it’s an unusual year when Time magazine’s coveted Person of ...

Social unrest in 2011
December 14, 2011, 5 Comments

Time names ‘The Protester’ as Person of the Year Dissenters ‘redefining people power’ around the ...

Canada in 2010 and 2011 – Immigration
November 4, 2011, 1 Comment

Background: Flight to Canada: The refugee process (March 2010) Canada to reform refugee system: Kenney Proposed reforms ...

Capitalism's Insurance Not Citizens' "entitlements"
August 9, 2011, 1 Comment

By Beryl Wajsman, Editor, The Suburban The global economic crisis has led many commentators and politicians to engage in ...

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