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Trudeau out, Trump in. Elections can have huge consequences.

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Hindus, Tories, same old story

The party of immigrants? Everyone knows that’s the Liberals. But for some time now, the Conservatives have been making inroads.

Their latest immigrant alliance is with a new crop of hard right Hindu organizations, who are springing up across Canada, often parroting Conservative talking points about crime and anti-LGBTQ politics.

Conservatives are hoping for an electoral boost, and these groups, in turn, are hoping to win the party’s support as they champion Hindu nationalism in the diaspora. They’re brandishing a slanted definition of “Hinduphobia” that aims to silence criticism of India’s far right Prime Minister Modi.

Journalists Saima Desai and Aniket Kali investigate this emerging coalition and its implications.

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Bread and roses and maple syrup

As Donald Trump’s tariff threat looms over Canada, much of the debate about a response has sidestepped a major problem.

We will not durably solve this quagmire with Twitter posts and tariffs of our own. 

Scholar and commentator Christo Aivalis argues we need to wrestle with the hard fact that 40 years of neoliberalism in Canada have deeply integrated our economy with the United States, and put us in a situation where one president can so threaten the country’s economic fortunes. 

To truly resist American aggression, we need a solution that includes economic planning and public ownership—in a word, socialism. 

Aivalis takes readers on a historical tour, reminding us that Canadian leftists once offered more realistic and practical solutions to this predicament.

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