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, 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 |
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Views Saturday, August 31, 2019 Tax on Super-Rich a Popular Idea, Except in the Media The Onion magazine once sardonically described the gap between rich and poor as the Eighth Wonder of the World—"a tremendous, millennia-old expanse that fills us with both wonder and humility… the most colossal and enduring of mankind’s creations." Let's not forget that the super-rich typically... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 28, 2019 Animals Protected from Sexual Abuse, But Not Factory Farm Abuse In a real head-scratcher, the Supreme Court of Canada ruled in June 2016 that sexual contact with an animal was legal, as long as there was no penetration. Whatever uncertainty that created for Canadians is now gone. The Trudeau government’s new animal welfare legislation, passed by Parliament last... Read more |
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Views Sunday, July 07, 2019 Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau's Climate Package Is a Dangerous Fraud It's possible that the world's top climate scientists are lying. If so, we can relax and feel confident that Justin Trudeau has dealt with the climate crisis in the appropriate way. Read more |