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Women Winning Office: The limits of electoral strategy
In her new book “Women Winning Office,” Peggy Nash argues that it’s critical for women to hold positions of power. But as Misha Falk writes, representation doesn’t equate to a more just society.
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Will the real climate platform please stand up?
We need a climate plan that defunds and dismantles the systems of pollution, inequality, and oppression that underpin our death march towards climate catastrophe, and instead redirects resources to solutions pathways.
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Sask Dispatch
How progressives won the Sask municipal elections
Of the 20 city council candidates endorsed by the labour movement, 15 won their elections in 2020. We spoke to the organizers behind their campaigns to find out how they did it, and what’s next.
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Sask Dispatch
Regina Municipal Election 2020: Defund the police
In preparation for Regina’s 2020 municipal election, the Sask Dispatch asked progressive community members, activists, and experts to pick one pressing issue facing the city, and write about how to address it. Michelle Stewart and Richelle Dubois, two long-time community activists, share their thoughts on defunding the police and making the city safer for Indigenous people, poor people, queer people, newcomers and other racialized and marginalized folks.
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Regina Municipal Election 2020: Sustainable transit
In 2018, Regina city council committed to a 100 per cent renewable city by 2050. Free transit, electric buses, and bike lanes will be a huge component of a renewable city – so why is council so hesitant to implement them?
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Regina Municipal Election 2020: Ending homelessness
Without any city, provincial, or federal funding, Fougere’s plan to end homelessness has been an utter failure. What concrete steps can the city take to end homelessness?
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Regina Municipal Election 2020: Public transit
People who live in Regina know it’s nearly impossible to get around town using only public transit. It’s a huge barrier to access for disabled people, youth, seniors, newcomers, and low-income earners. What should we consider when beefing up public transit?
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Sask Dispatch
Regina Municipal Election 2020: Environment & Sustainability
The city walked back its 2018 motion to use 100 per cent renewable energy by 2050; but environmental sustainability has never been a more pressing local issue. Here’s how local activists are envisioning a truly renewable Regina.
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Sask Dispatch
Regina Municipal Election 2020: Wascana Park
For the past few years, the construction of the new Conexus and Brandt/CNIB buildings have been fiercely opposed by Regina residents who want no business in the park. How much power does the city have over the future of Wascana Centre?
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Why you should (and shouldn’t) be invested in Regina’s municipal election
From police brutality to accessibility to climate change – change starts at the local level. That’s why the Sask Dispatch put together a package of articles weighing in on the municipal election. So what’s at stake on November 9?
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The history and politics of the Communist Party of Canada: an overview
The CPC’s image may be radical, but its politics are tired Stalinist reformism
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Politics for the present and for the future
In a recent article, Vijay Prashad argues that the challenge of the left is to be both present- and future-oriented at once. As the federal election looms, that’s what I’ve tried to do in this issue of Briarpatch.
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From community organizing to electoral politics
As we stare down a climate crisis and a hard-right political wave, women activists are setting out to transform electoral politics in Canada. But are the parties ready for them?
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Is voting really “harm reduction”?
People who say “voting is harm reduction” wrongly assume that in the lead-up to elections, all we can do is vote for the least-bad candidate or party.
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How do we intervene in the Ontario elections?
Five Ontario activists on how to change the message and build resistance before and after the 2018 election.
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The Honduran Election Crisis
Canadian capital stands to benefit from the fraudulent election of a far right-wing government that has brought down the full force of the military on Hondurans – particularly on activists like Berta Cáceres.
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Young Muslims and the Federal Election
As the federal election approaches, young Muslim Canadians are leading new initiatives to engage with electoral politics.
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Beyond Holding Your Nose
What a politician is willing to do is never as important as what we can do together when we organize.
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The Meaning of Elections for Six Nations
The conflict between the hereditary leadership and the elected band council on the largest reserve in Canada provides an education in colonialism.
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Why are Canada’s Political Parties so Uninspiring?
Four activists discuss Canada’s federal election.