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My dirty secret

24 Sep 2012 5 minute read

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My dirty secret

Wayne Roberts looks at how food and water issues mix in an era of drought.

16 Aug 2012 5 minute read

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Store and deliver, governments tell web firms

Forget about data protection – spies are demanding our elected leaders and private companies serve up everything we do online...

9 Jul 2012 3 minute read

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The highlights of Hot Docs 2012

Richard Swift gives us a round-up of the best offerings at Toronto’s annual film-fest.

1 Jul 2012 2 minute read

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Québec’s Maple Spring

Richard Swift says Canada's wave of pots-and-pans protests signal the first major rupture with the austerity agenda.

Student demonstrations go viral in Québec

31 May 2012 3 minute read

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Student demonstrations go viral in Québec

Alice Ellwood reports from cacophonous Montréal where pan-protests have sprung up in defiance of a repressive...

The credit union boom

1 Jan 2012 2 minute read

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The credit union boom

Fed up with being fleeced, North Americans are flocking to co-operative savings societies. Wayne Ellwood...

Toronto: walking in a corporate wonderland

13 Sep 2011 2 minute read

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Toronto: walking in a corporate wonderland

If Mayor Rob Ford has his way, we’ll be catching the subway at McDonald’s station and dancing in Burger King Park. Is this...

Taking on tar sands

9 Sep 2011 3 minute read

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Taking on tar sands

Pete Speller on his documentary that exposes the evils of the tar sands oil extraction project in Alberta,...

Rev Billy exorcises the dark soul of BP

20 Jul 2011 3 minute read

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Rev Billy exorcises the dark soul of BP

New Internationalist's contributing editor Jamie Kelsey-Fry reports on the day that hundreds of...

Taking on Tarmageddon - The Movie

15 Jul 2011 2 minute read

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Taking on Tarmageddon - The Movie

A new film by activist filmmakers follows student activists meeting the Beaver Lake Cree, whose land sits in the middle of...

1 Jul 2011 2 minute read

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Canada quits Afghanistan, almost

Canadian troops are withdrawing from Afghanistan this month. In theory, at least, reports Wayne Ellwood.

1 May 2011 5 minute read

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Fracking the world

Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a...

1 Mar 2011 2 minute read

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Stop the tar sands trade talks

A protest against opening the EU's doors to Canada's polluting tar sands

16 Jan 2011 2 minute read

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Climate criminal Canada sets its sights on Europe

6th round of Canada-EU trade negotiations, Brussels: 16-21 January

7 Jan 2011 2 minute read

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Keep out!

Tighter immigration controls first on Canada’s agenda for 2011?

5 Jan 2011 6 minute read

This article is almost 12 years old.

Reclaiming a lost identity

Canada’s Truth and Reconciliation Commission is working to heal a century of trauma caused by a policy of assimilation which...

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