By Cam Scott As the Executive Policy Committee of Winnipeg’s City Council rushes to pass its 2021 budget, it’s hard not to see this document as a direct rebuke to community health and a...
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Pallister’s COVID response a mortal sacrifice on the altar of profit
Across the world, the impact of COVID-19 continues to reveal deepening inequality. Throughout the developed capitalist countries, free market ideologues have escalated a foreseeable second wave in pursuit of profit, creating the perfect conditions...
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Red River and white supremacy on the prairies
[buzzsprout episode=’4885856′ player=’true’] July 15 marked the 150th anniversary of Manitoba’s entry into Confederation as the fifth province of Canada, part of a sordid exercise in white supremacist control and violent ethnic cleansing. Manitoba...
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Under cover of COVID, Pallister serves an environmental privatization bonanza
[buzzsprout episode=’5146795′ player=’true’] Manitoba’s Conservative government has used the coronavirus pandemic and resulting economic crisis as an opportunity to ram through legislation aimed at privatizing the province’s forests, parks, water infrastructure and flood control....
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