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    Alice is the owner and editor/publisher of NOW, which she co-founded in 1981. In addition to her role as NOW’s media matriarch, she is a writer, social entrepreneur, one-time doc filmmaker, eco-feminist and unapologetic social change advocate.

  • Waiving our rights

    You have to admire the political logic. If there is no data to research, there will be no facts to account for. How perfect the...
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  • PM outclassed

    When he took on the G summits, Stephen Harper was obviously hoping to play out his inner white knight. He grabbed the G8/G20 for Canada...
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  • G8 fails climate and development

    As evening falls on this "G" of a day, all the action has been on the streets. Among the leaders it has all been photo-ops...
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  • Bank tax holiday worse than we thought

    Okay, tax is not the sexiest subject ever. But I learned some pretty worrisome stuff at the OECD (Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development) press...
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  • Harper’s maternal money-throw

    Harper has just announced his G8 centrepiece and the number he is offering up for maternal and children's health is impressive.If we have learned anything...
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  • Paul Martin goes Robin Hood at G20

    Guess who gave his blessings to the Financial Transaction Tax (that would take a bitsy percentage of trading bets and make billions to address global...
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  • Get off your ass

    Hey, world leaders, I don't need to tell you about the sorry state of the world right now. [rssbreak] Your own communiqués - a paper...
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  • G20s golden opportunity

    I hear a helicopter flying outside my window as I write this. It's a reminder of how annoying it is to live under the upcoming...
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  • A coalition means cooperation

    Talking Coalition on the Current this morning was fun and frustrating.It is really pretty amazing and cool that the debate about coalition politics has reached...
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  • Boreal tree-prieve

    Get out your hiking hat - I've got really big news. And, bonus, it's covered in trees and lakes and verdant blankets of 100-year-old mosses....
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  • Its time for high finance to come to the rescue

    As grassroots NGOs get their lobbying smarts in gear for the June 20 G20 Summit, set to unfold just minutes from where I sit writing...
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  • Bring on the mind benders

    Earth Day will turn 40 this weekend. forty years. Isn't that how long Moses struggled in the wilderness? For Christ's sake, when do we get...
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  • Hillary Clinton’s case for Canada

    Hooray for Hillary and maternal health. Earth to Harper, the big bad Bush is gone.Pretend help for women that denies choice around reproductive rights doesn't...
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  • Time to talk tax

    The Liberal think-fest last weekend turned up some unexpected consequences.[rssbreak]On the heels of a comment by Canada's heroic former diplomat and kidnap survivor Robert Fowler...
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  • Ontario budget highs and lows

    Make sure to look both left and right because the Ontario Budget is driving right up the middle of the road.[briefbreak] To the government's credit,...
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