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, February 18, 2018 Climate Change Won’t Wait for Political Change With opposing factions deeply entrenched on either side of the climate change divide, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau seems to think he’s found the sweet spot of Canadian politics dithering in the middle. But trying to find some happy middle ground doesn’t work when the force to be reckoned with is... Read more |
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Views Sunday, December 24, 2017 No More Silence About the Torture of Animals At a giant pet store in west-end Toronto last week, people loaded up on gifts and stocking stuffers for their pets, and posed with them for a “family Christmas photo.” "At the root of our numbness to animal suffering is the notion—unwittingly accepted by lifelong meat-eaters like myself—that... Read more |
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Views Sunday, November 26, 2017 Morneau and Trudeau Are Looking Out for the Rich There’s lots of lamenting about the way the rich keep getting richer while ordinary folk struggle to keep their heads above water. Along with the lamenting, there’s usually some resigned muttering about how it’s all just part of today’s global economy. But there’s a much simpler explanation: our... Read more |
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Views Saturday, October 28, 2017 Demise of Sears Canada Should Be Catalyst for Change Suddenly jobless after two decades as a sales manager for now-defunct Sears Canada, Rose Dalessandro found herself unable to pay for dental appointments for her two children. She could blame her financial difficulties and the demise of the once-mighty Canadian retail giant on the usual suspects —... Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 30, 2017 Time to End Tax Breaks That Benefit the Rich The real beneficiaries of the tax loophole targeted by the Trudeau government are high-flying corporate lawyers, businesspeople, accountants, doctors, dentists, insurance, and real estate agents. Read more |
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Views Saturday, September 09, 2017 Canada Abandons Proud History as ‘Nuclear Nag’ When Most Needed So insistent was Canada in pushing for nuclear disarmament that we became known among top NATO generals as the “nuclear nag.” Make no mistake — that was meant as an insult. But it gives me a shiver of pride to think that Canada was smeared because of our insistence on challenging NATO’s top brass... Read more |
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Views Sunday, August 06, 2017 NAFTA Needs an Overhaul to Improve Workers’ Rights With the chaos of the Trump administration as a backdrop, Canadian diplomats will arrive in Washington later this month for NAFTA talks that they hope will be no more than a skinny renegotiation. According to Canadian lore, the North American Free Trade Agreement has been a great boon to Canada, so... Read more |
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Views Saturday, July 29, 2017 Canada: Flexing Military Might is Capitulation to Trump, Despite Liberal Spin Even after The Economist magazine ran an article headlined “Tony Blair is not a poodle,” the British prime minister was unable to shake the slur of being George W. Bush’s loyal lapdog for supporting his invasion of Iraq. So there must be a huge sigh of relief inside our own Prime Minister’s Office... Read more |
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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 |