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Designing a Wealth Tax for Today’s Robber Barons

Alex Hemingway Jacobin
A proposed wealth tax on Canada’s richest 0.6% could raise hundreds of billions of dollars — enough to tackle housing, transit, and care. The sheer scale of what a tiny slice of billionaire wealth could fund is staggering.

Why the Canada Post Strike Is Not Just a ‘Labour Dispute’

Rhea Rollmann The Independent
The weaponization of ‘balance’ increasingly permeates our society. It emerges when powerful institutions call police to suspend free speech or shut down protests in the name of ‘safety’ when really, there’s no realistic danger.

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Could Canada Join the EU?

As tensions rise between Canada and the US, new PM Mark Carney has made overtures to Europe in a bid to strengthen ties. It's unlikely to happen soon, but it certainly isn't impossible.

Trump’s Threats Expose Canada’s Utter Dependency on the US

Adam D.K. King interviews Sam Gindin Socialist Project
The immediate task is to address delinking from the United States and the American Empire. This is not about aiming for a nationalist form of sovereignty but one based on collectively and democratically determining what kind of society we want.
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