Trump's war on Iran hasn't altered Canada's cost of making gas — at all. So why are we being hosed at the pumps? Policy choices, not market forces of a war halfway around the world, explain the spike in prices, writes Jim Stanford, leading to unnecessary economy-wide inflation and higher interest rates.

Here ye:

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Bernie Sander’s 2028 litmus test would strangle America’s golden goose

Surprise! The Jeff Bezos-owned Washington Post is against my 5% billionaire wealth tax. I wonder why?

If enacted, Bezos would owe $12 billion in taxes, and an average family of 4 would receive a $12,000 direct payment.

Poor Jeff would be left with just $224 billion to survive.

Why has the US declared war on Iran? Rachel Maddow here cuts through the fog of war. Canada's support for this indefensible war must not stand.

TRUMP, IRAN & CARNEY - WORLD AT WAR!!! YouTube video by Charlie Angus

Well said Charlie Angus. The dangerous invasion of Iran is simply wrong and Canada's statement in support of it is shameful.

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HUMANITARIAN AID FOR CUBA Donald Trump has intensified U.S. sanctions to choke off oil shipments to Cuba, tightening the embargo and pressuring other countries and companies not to supply the island with fuel. Because Cuba dep...

This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.leadnow.ca/petitions/hu...

Time for a wartime industrial strategy in Canada - CCPA A national industrial policy could unite Canada in the face of growing external threats from the Unites States

Important piece on the future of our country by @fwilson2.bsky.social +Robert Chernomas www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Time for a wartime industrial strategy in Canada - CCPA A national industrial policy could unite Canada in the face of growing external threats from the Unites States

This is great analysis from @fwilson2.bsky.social and Robert Chernomas about the importance of pro-active industrial strategy in defending Canadian sovereignty in the face of Trump's attacks, published by
@ccpa
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Time for a wartime industrial strategy in Canada - CCPA A national industrial policy could unite Canada in the face of growing external threats from the Unites States

A national industrial policy could unite Canada in the face of growing external threats from the Unites States. By @fwilson2.bsky.social and Robert Chernomas @policyalternatives.ca
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Time for a wartime industrial strategy in Canada - CCPA A national industrial policy could unite Canada in the face of growing external threats from the Unites States

A new article by Robert Chernomas and me for Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives on the fault lines undermining Canadian resolve in the trade war with the USA, and calling for a working class based national industrial policy to unite Canadians. www.policyalternatives.ca/news-researc...

Opinion: Stability and prosperity must be made in Canada The appeal for foreign investment, in part, is because incentives to Canadian business to invest in building Canada have not produced results.

A new article by Robert Chernomas and me: Stability and prosperity must be made in Canada www.winnipegfreepress.com/opinion/anal...

The US drew up a plan to invade Canada in 1930. Now Trump is reviving old fears Now the US is vying regional dominance, experts point to War Plan Red as proof its Canadian allyship has always been flimsy

This does not seem so far fetched now, and the potential scenarios we could face set out by Thomas Homer-Dixon in this article are norteworthy.
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Bruce Springsteen - Streets Of Minneapolis (Official Audio) YouTube video by Bruce Springsteen

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Is Carney’s cars-for-canola surrender with China another nail in Canada's automaking coffin? Without a 'build here to sell here' strategy from Ottawa, writes Jim Stanford, Carney’s China deal will be another nail in the coffin of an auto industry that was once

What must be said about cars-for-canola

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Top U.S. archbishops denounce American foreign policy The three most-senior cardinals leading U.S. archdioceses issued the rebuke in a joint statement on Monday, saying recent policies have thrown America's "morale role in confronting evil" into question.

The three most-senior cardinals leading U.S. archdioceses issued the rebuke in a joint statement on Monday, saying recent policies have thrown America's "morale role in confronting evil" into question. n.pr/4bNfjrc

MLK Day Special: Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in His Own Words YouTube video by Democracy Now!

On MLK Day, thanks to Democracy Now for posting two of his most important speeches - Beyond Vietnam, on US imperialism and a better world, and I Have Been to the Mountaintop, the day before his 1968 assignation in Memphis.

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'Definition Of Imperialism': Bernie Sanders Responds To Stephen Miller's Comments On Venezuela YouTube video by Forbes Breaking News

"Miller did a very good job describing imperialism"

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Internal Coup? Was Maduro BETRAYED By His VP YouTube video by Breaking Points

Perhaps the most insightful assessment I have seen on what is going down in #Venezuela

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Hope for 2026 This is a New Year filled with hope. Hope that 2026 will take us back from the political, environmental and moral abyss that marked the…

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My take on NY 2026

Chatting with Jesus: what’s worse - the poor fool reduced to that, or the AI companion programmed to be God.

Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches The anti-vaccine, anti-government crusade to save "the miracle cure birds" is over — and the fringe activists lost.

I may have missed it, but where was Canadian media on this story? All I saw or heard was a lot of both-sideism.

Why the conspiratorial right rallied around a flock of ostriches www.msnbc.com/news/news-an...

When the ICE agent is Canadian… | This Hour Has 22 Minutes YouTube video by 22 Minutes

Elbows Up, but we can do this too:
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Perhaps much more than most people will want to know about me, but a very big thank you to Carmela Allevato and the BC Labour Heritage Centre for making me part of their impressive and growing collection of oral interviews with labour activists. #canlab
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If you live with a person with PD, this story will confirm your hopes and fears; if you don't it will touch you nonetheless.

The fifth horseman….

The union representing the musicians from Jimmy Kimmel’s band releases a statement calling the FCC’s pressure on Disney “state censorship.”

Thanks for pulling out the sentence that was the essential point of this essay.

Progressive nationalism and the fight for Canadian sovereignty The threat to Canadian sovereignty is real and it demands a renewed analysis and a third wave of progressive nationalism to meet the challenges of the post-globalization era of authoritarian US imperi...

My new long form article on three waves of Progressive Canadian Nationalism and the urgent need to break free from US empire is at @canadiandimension.bsky.social

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Some September labour based short fiction. When workers organize there can be Inevitable Conflict - the title of my new short story, a sequel to Capital Delivery.

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#shortstory #labour #gigwork

Happy Labour Day. I have posted a labour based short story on Medium - a sequel to my previous short fiction, Capital Delivery. I hope you enjoy it. medium.com/@jefr.../ine...