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Editorial cartoon by Brian Gable
Gerald Caplan

Harper is right: Foreign radicals are after the oil sands

It’s not just environmentalists using U.S. money for Canadian advocacy

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U.S. President Barack Obama pauses before he delivers the commencement address for the 2012 graduating class at Barnard College in New York May 14, 2012.

How does Obama disappoint? Let me count the ways

Everyone in the world knew something truly important happened when Barack Obama was elected, but no one knew exactly what that was

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A student protester marches as part of a May Day rally in Quebec City on May 1, 2012.
Gerald Caplan

Update on the class war: 1% winning, 99% regrouping

Private affluence abounds amid public squalor – but there are flickers of hope at home and abroad

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Liberal prime minister William Lyon MacKenzie and CCF leader J.S. Woodsworth are shown in an undated photo combination.
Gerald Caplan

Once upon a time, Canadians could be proud of Parliament

J.S. Woodworth’s lonely call for neutrality as his CCF supported Mackenzie King’s declaration of war displayed both courage and conviction – qualities that are in short supply in today’s Commons

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NDP Leader Andrea Horwath speaks to reporters after the Ontario budget vote at Queen's Park in Toronto on April 24, 2012.
Gerald Caplan

Taxing Ontario’s rich and the menace of creeping Nazism

Why is the side that’s winning the class war resorting to such inflamed rhetoric in the face of measures geared toward easing it?

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Rwandan workers pass in front of cement covered mass grave at the Gisozi genocide memorial in Kigali on April 2, 2004.
Gerald Caplan

Rwanda – that’s in Africa, isn’t it?

As aid budget is slashed, Canada rolls back two policies that were long a thorn in the troubled country’s side

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Opposition Leader Thomas Mulcair responds to the Conservative government's budget in the foyer of the House of Commons on March 29, 2012.
Gerald Caplan

Maybe a new world really is possible under Mulcair

The NDP Leader won’t be a pushover on the Opposition bench like his Liberal predecessors

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Gerald Caplan

The 1% cheat more than the rest of us? Say it ain’t so

Sure they campaign for lower taxes on themselves and corporations, not to mention tighter constraints on unions and smaller government entitlements for the vulnerable, but does that mean they’d take candy from a baby?

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Quebec MP Thomas Mulcair leaves the stage after the final NDP leadership debate in Vancouver on March 11, 2012.
Gerald Caplan

Why Mulcair should be the next NDP leader

In his persona and different political origins, the Quebec MP offers new possibilities. It’s a risk – but one worth taking at this singular moment for the party

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Prime Minister Stephen Harper and local MP Christian Paradis speak to workers at a plant in Thetford Mines, Que. on Dec. 13, 2010.
Gerald Caplan

Seems even Harper and Charest can't save Canada’s deadly asbestos exports

Despite dogged efforts by Ottawa and Quebec, last two mines appear closed for good