Linda McQuaig
Linda McQuaig is an author, journalist, and former NDP candidate for Toronto Centre in the Canadian federal election. She is also the author (with Neil Brooks) of Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality, published by Beacon Press.
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Views Sunday, June 11, 2017 NAFTA’s Dirty Secret: It Lets U.S. Control Canada's Oil In the wake of Donald Trump’s fiery threats to end the trade deal between the U.S., Canada and Mexico, the subject of NAFTA has become much more interesting to Canadians than before, when it mostly consisted of talk about softwood lumber and the dairy industry. Boring. In fact, Trump or no Trump,... Read more |
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Views Sunday, April 02, 2017 Fighting Fake News About Canadian Health Care I recall my frustration years ago watching U.S. television while an “analyst” from the right-wing Cato Institute spewed blatant lies about Canada’s public health care system — including that all hospitals in Ontario, having run out of money at the end of the year, had completely shut down for the... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 29, 2016 Privatizing Airports a Flight Risk If you’re a hen, you probably don’t want to hear that the farmer has hired a fox to advise it on better ways to run the henhouse. Similarly, if you’re a Canadian air traveler, you probably won’t be pleased to learn the Trudeau government has hired a major investment bank — which specializes in... Read more |
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Views Saturday, June 11, 2016 Different Tax Rules for Wealthy and Powerful Brian Mulroney will surely be best remembered for the suitcase full of thousand dollar bills he received in a New York hotel room. The riveting image of the former prime minister accepting wads of cash from a notorious lobbyist — admitted by Mulroney under cross-examination at a 2009 public inquiry... Read more |
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Views Monday, June 15, 2015 Harper's Voter Suppression Plan: Coming Soon to a Polling Station Near You Stephen Harper's re-election strategy depends on a lot of you not voting. And if you mess with his plan by showing up at the polling station on Election Day, he's prepared for that, too: he's made it a lot harder for you to vote. The prime minister has made it so much harder that "many tens of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 21, 2015 Why are Canadians Subsidizing Executive Stock Options? If you’re a top executive at a major corporation, no need to read further; you’ll know all this. But if you’re an ordinary person, you may not. You’ve probably heard of “executive stock options” — a perk that allows corporate executives a special deal on purchasing the company’s stocks. And you may... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, July 31, 2013 How Canada's Harper Helped Push World Toward Austerity In June 2010, the transformation of the city’s downtown core into a pseudo war zone seemed like the worst aspect of the Harper government’s handling of the G20 summit in Toronto. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, July 02, 2013 Is Environmental Action Impossible in Corporate-Dominated Age? Perhaps the only thing more stunning than Alberta’s ruinous flooding has been the realization that not even a disaster of this magnitude, right in the heart of oil country, seems sufficient to break the torpor surrounding climate change. Indeed, federal and Alberta authorities seem undeterred in their dream of turning Canada into an energy superpower, even if it means immersing the country neck-deep in water. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, March 12, 2013 Hugo Chavez Depicted As Tyrant for Challenging Western Oil Domination Had Hugo Chavez followed the pattern of many Third World leaders and concentrated on siphoning off his nation’s wealth for personal gain, he would have attracted little attention or animosity in the West. Read more |
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Views Tuesday, January 15, 2013 Canada’s Energy Juggernaut Hits a Native Roadblock Those who believe we can freely trash the environment in our quest to make ourselves richer suffer from a serious delusion — a delusion that doesn’t appear to afflict aboriginal people. Read more |