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 of "The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich Are Stealing Canada's Public Wealth" (2019), "War, Big Oil and the Fight for the Planet: It's the Crude, Dude" (2006) and (with Neil Brooks) of "Billionaires’ Ball: Gluttony and Hubris in an Age of Epic Inequality" (2012).
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Views Tuesday, December 01, 2020 Canada Is Now Paying the Price for Privatizing Its Vaccine Research and Production Lab As the Trudeau government struggles to figure out how to get a coronavirus vaccine to Canadians, one thing is clear: this task would be a lot easier if the Mulroney government hadn’t privatized Connaught Labs three decades ago. The sale of the remarkable Connaught Labs to foreign interests made no... Read more |
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Views Thursday, November 19, 2020 Long-Term Care Fiasco a Warning About Private Ownership Please put me in a long-term-care home, said nobody ever. Still, few probably expected that these homes would become horror houses of death, taking their place at the very epicentre of a raging pandemic and accounting for some 75 per cent of coronavirus deaths in Ontario. An important aspect of... Read more |
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Views Saturday, August 22, 2020 NDP Should Use Its Clout to Push Vulnerable Liberals to Take Urgent Climate Action As Bernie Sanders noted: Nero fiddled as Rome burned, while Donald Trump golfs — and Justin Trudeau prorogues Parliament, it could be added. With Canada reeling from the pandemic crisis, our prime minister prorogued Parliament right after he selected Bill Morneau to take the hit for the government’... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 05, 2020 How Ottawa is Driving Up the Cost of Infrastructure by Listening to Wall Street The Trudeau government is gearing up to spend billions on new infrastructure as part of its post-pandemic economic plans. What a terrific idea! — except that it plans to do so in a way that will massively, needlessly drive up the costs and allow some of our prime national assets to be owned by... Read more |
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Views Wednesday, May 20, 2020 Let’s Not Be Duped Again By Deficit Hawks Peddling Austerity Slowly, cautiously, the deficit hawks are daring to come out of the shadows. These are the well-heeled folks, from conservative think-tanks and political circles, who for decades have successfully pushed governments to impose austerity and social spending cuts on the rest of us, in the name of... Read more |
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Views Thursday, May 07, 2020 Trudeau Should Lift Punishing Sanctions That Harm Vulnerable Nations These days, any national leader not actively urging their citizens to drink disinfectant is managing to look (relatively) good on the world stage. Certainly, compared to the neurotic leadership south of the border, Justin Trudeau has emerged as a steady hand on the tiller, quickly providing... Read more |
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Views Friday, April 10, 2020 Ottawa Should Produce Vital Products—Like It Did in the Second World War At first glance, the question posed by a Canadian medical ethicist might seem thoughtful: If two coronavirus patients are having serious trouble breathing—and one is a 12-year-old child and the other a 74-year-old doctor—who should get the hospital's only available ventilator? But on further... Read more |
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Views Saturday, March 14, 2020 The Public Lab That Could Have Helped Fight COVID-19 Pandemic Canada once had a publicly owned pharmaceutical company that could have made a difference in the current coronavirus crisis — except that we sold it. Connaught Labs was a superstar in global medicine. For seven decades, this publicly owned Canadian company performed brilliantly on the national and... Read more |
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Views Sunday, February 16, 2020 Jason Kenney Treated with Kid-Gloves, Indigenous Protestors with Assault Rifles I want to start by turning myself into Jason Kenney’s investigators. I admit to being against further oilsands development, making me a person of interest to the sleuths in Kenney’s $30-million “war-room” who are tasked with vilifying oilsands critics. Of course, they’re really hoping to unmask “... Read more |
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Views Saturday, December 28, 2019 How $15 Billion in Bonuses Leaves Canada's Bankers Gloomy There’s silly. There’s absurd. And then there’s this: The country’s six largest banks are dishing out $15 billion in bonuses this year. But, in the eyes of some, this isn’t enough . Indeed, Bill Vlaad, president of Vlaad & Co., which monitors bank compensation trends, described the $15 billion... Read more |