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Michael Laxer
Jan 1, 20226 min read
2021: The year in review on The Left Chapter
2021 is done and what a year it was. Along the way we saw momentous victories for the left in Kerala, Chile, Peru, Honduras and...
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Michael Laxer
Oct 14, 20212 min read
Think we can't afford free transit? Think again.
The $11 million per minute that the fossil fuel industry receives in subsidies shows that we can. A bus in Kansas City which has extended...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 18, 20212 min read
NDP tries to spin its way out of CEWS support
Image via twitter Have you heard the news? Suddenly the NDP is concerned about the unbelievable, scandalous fiasco that is the Canada...
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Michael Laxer
Apr 19, 20213 min read
CEWS remains the real pandemic scandal
The mainstream media is finally figuring out what many of us did months ago: the federal Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) is a...
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Michael Laxer
Feb 10, 20212 min read
Bell layoffs are the latest CEWS travesty
The massive telecommunications company not only paid out close to $3 billion in dividends after receiving $122.9 million in public CEWS...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 20, 20214 min read
More corporate fun and games with the CEWS
With the CEWS having gone to companies that locked out workers and that had workers on strike, as well as to companies that laid off...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 9, 20213 min read
Anti-choice groups got the government's CEWS wage subsidy
In addition to all the other issues with the CEWS, it turns out that extremist anti-choice groups like the Canadian Centre for...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 3, 20215 min read
Forget hypocritical personal trips, the CEWS scandal is far worse
While it is perfectly understandable that Canadians are upset at the hypocrisy of individual politicians, the boondoggle that is the CEWS...
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Michael Laxer
Jan 2, 20216 min read
2020: The year in review on The Left Chapter
It is hard to overstate how momentous a year 2020 was. Among so many other events, it was the year of the Black Lives Matter uprisings,...
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Michael Laxer
Dec 23, 20205 min read
Snapshots from the pandemic class war in Canada
As the year ends the rich are not only getting richer, they are doing so so brazenly at the expense of everyone else that they obviously...
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