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This study examines the extent to which separatism in South Sudan led the failure of the state and its institutions and aims to draw lessons from this... more
South Sudan
Sudan
  Letter in National Post,  May 8, 2018Re:  John Ivison: Left-of-centre Liberals leave Singh's NDP struggling for relevance, May 3, 2018 In his 1971... more
Bernie Sanders
Tommy Douglas
Bank of Canada
Re:  Federal fiscal policies ‘sustainable’ over long term, says new PBO report, MARCO VIGLIOTTI, Jan. 23, 2018 Growing poverty and inequality are not... more
MMT
gold standard
fiat money
Alan Greenspan
Bill Mitchell
Appraising fiscal health Jan 17, 2018   Re: Feds plan to reduce deficit in long term, Morneau says, Jan. 13 A monetarily sovereign government is not like... more
Debt
deficits
fiscal anchors
debt ratio
MMT
monetary sovereignty
Re:  'Unstoppable' labour market adds jobs for 12th month, drops jobless rate to 5.9%, The Canadian Press, Dec. 1, 2017 The inanity of modern neo-liberal... more
 
December 6, 2017
neo-liberalism
full employment
https://www.thestar.com/opinion/letters_to_the_editors/2017/11/15/your-letters-are-the-rich-paying-their-fair-share-of-taxes-in-canada.html When the credit... more
 
November 15, 2017
tax havens
Paradise Papers
fiat currency
Extraordinary Financing Framework
Missed Connection – City of Ottawa Transit and Housing Policies   After a ten year delay, the City of Ottawa is completing the first phase of its east - west... more
Rapid Transit
Social Infrastructure
affordable housing
Ottawa Citizen - Letters to the Editor Dear Editor: Your recent Editorial on infrastructure funding ("No to higher taxes ...", Ottawa Citizen, Aug. 23, 2017)... more
Municipal Infrastructure
Property Taxes
User fees
ONPoli
ottpoli
  Re UBS Chair Champions Infrastructure Bank (Report on Business, July 12): In the postwar era, the federal government used central bank financing to help pay... more
PPP
green infrastructure
Re: Liberal government promises extra $62B for military over next 20 years (June 7) Canada's official development assistance was down by 4.4 per cent in 2016... more
Just yesterday, I was reading the words of Michael Oreskes, NPR's senior vice-president of news and editorial director. He was speaking in Washington, D.C. at... more
National Observer
Investigative journalism
Journalism
Journalists
cdnpoli
Only hours before U.S. President Donald Trump abandoned a global deal to halt dangerous and destructive climate change, mayors from some of Canada’s largest... more
climate change
Paris Agreement
Donald Trump
cities
Mayors
cdnpoli
  Canadians can be proud of their notable contributions to the United Nations, including vital support for the Land Mines Treaty and the International Criminal... more
UNPA
global governance
global democracy
parliamentary assemblies
Ahead of a second one-day bus strike set for Tuesday, the mayor of Quebec’s fourth-largest city warned his transit service and its union to “intensify the... more
Gatineau
Mayor of Gatineau
STO bus strike
Public Service
gatpoli
ottpoli
Syndicat uni du transport
Société de transport de l'Outaouais
Ottawa
Re:  East Side businesses feeling the pinch, Jane Mundy, January 27, 2017 Rising rents, taxes, cash-strapped homeowners blamed for recent spate of closures... more

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