Michael Laxer
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,...
Michael Laxer
Dec 2, 20207 min read
Taxing the billionaire class is nowhere near enough
Building a "fairer" capitalism is an illusion. The most important thing any of us can do to begin a serious fight to end inequality and...
Michael Laxer
Nov 18, 20203 min read
NDP and Greens back Trumpian Conservative motion on China
Progressives should not be supporting a Conservative motion tinged with anticommunism and Cold War style nationalism that could have been...
Michael Laxer
Oct 16, 20205 min read
A Green-NDP merger makes perfect sense...but not for the left
Any clearheaded analysis makes it obvious that for a real anti-capitalist, left movement a Green-NDP merger is irrelevant. As is...
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