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  • George Elliott Clarke on Canada’s war-footing to combat coronavirus

    That the COVID-19 pandemic has triggered the militarization of public speech is a natural occurrence, given the symbiosis between war and health care. Nursing itself...
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  • The uncharted story of Malcolm X’s influence on Black Canada

    The Manhattan District Attorney's Office has announced a "preliminary" review of the police investigation into the assassination of Malcolm X. The review was reported last week just...
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  • Canada Election 2019: When palefaces don Blackface, whats so funny?

    The sight of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in dark face (and body) makeup became a scandal for news networks and media outlets last week.  But...
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  • Who was freed by Emancipation?

    My interrogative title is, I assure you, no cheap rhetorical gambit when some folks in the Black communities of Toronto doubt whether Emancipation is worth celebrating, validating,...
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  • Toronto Election 2018: a case for the Province of Toronto

    When in Rome, you see the letters SPQR inscribed on public works buildings. They represent the phrase Senatus Populusque Romanus, which is Latin for “The...
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  • Why the feds should step in and stop Doug Ford’s plan to cut Toronto council in half

    According to the Constitution Act of 1982, Canadian elected officials, provincial and federal, are supposed to provide “Peace, Order and Good Government.”  Clearly, Ontario Premier...
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  • Trans Mountain pipeline debate: must Big Oil always shaft our democracy?

    What is it about Liberal Party federalism and pipeline proposals that always triggers a crisis?  That Texas-headquartered transnational Kinder Morgan can impose a “capital strike”...
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  • George Elliott Clarke ponders Donald Trump’s big fall

    While founded on African slavery and Indigenous dispossession, the American Republic says it believes in justice and equality.  Yet its current head of state is...
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  • George Elliott Clarke’s modest proposal for a Ministry of Dreams

    The candles on the national birthday-cake have been snuffed – Confederation’s sesquicentennial is done and 2017 is history. But there’s still unfinished constitutional business to...
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  • Why Trump is the logical person to head the U.S. government

    Anyone bothered by last week's inauguration irritation should get used to it: it was no error that Donald J. Trump triumphed in the U.S. presidential...
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  • In memoriam: George Elliott Clarke remembers Austin Clarke

    Shame on you if you've not read anything by Austin C. Clarke, who died last week. And double shame if you're ignorant of Clarke's damning...
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  • Django unchains #Oscarssowhite

    Although the 44th president of the United States has 44 or so weeks left in his term before he leaves office, and may still work...
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  • Harper’s x-factor

    Political Science 101: Canadian governments are not simply elected. They are decided by whatever a majority of elected members of Parliament (or a provincial legislature)...
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  • Racing the vote

    The only way Stephen Harper's un-Canadian fake Tories can win the election is to turn voters against each other, which is why we should beware...
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  • Fixed date = rigged result

    It's a page straight out of the dysfunctional U.S. political playbook, and it is profoundly undemocratic, skewing election outcomes to favour the deep pockets of...
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