Linda McQuaig

Calling for a "reckoning" and "retaliation" against a nuclear-armed superpower is foolish and provocative—especially when we threw the first stone.

Canadians might well be interested to learn that the NDP's proposed 1 per cent tax on wealth-holdings worth more than $10 million would only affect the wealthiest 75,000 families, but would raise $17 billion a year.

Efforts are being blocked by the fossil fuel industry—probably the most powerful set of interests on earth.

For all his philanthropy, Gates is deeply committed to protecting the rights of patent holders.

When nations co-operate, corporations have a hard time playing us off against each other in pushing for ever-lower taxes.

If you don't have $20 million or sitting around you can just relax.

Privatization has left us scrambling for vaccines in today's pandemic—a dangerous situation that last week drove the desperate Trudeau government to announce a $415 million federal contribution to the expansion of vaccine production capacity at the old Connaught plant, now owned by French pharmaceutical giant Sanofi Pasteur.

These public-private partnerships ultimately drive up the cost of the projects and leave municipalities with less control over their own infrastructure.