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Romeo Dallaire, right, a Canadian senator at the time, and Hassan Jallow, prosecutor of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, speak about genocide and crimes against humanity in Ottawa in December 2013. Dallaire headed Canada’s ill-fated peacekeeping mission in Rwanda in the 1990s. THE CANADIAN PRESS/ Patrick Doyle

Why Canada is effectively shutting down its 70‑year peacekeeping legacy

The Canadian Defence Department’s recent announcement that it’s scaling back peacekeeping missions marks the final step in the triumph of one national peacekeeping mythology over another.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford makes an announcement on the province’s minimum wage in November 2021. THE CANADIAN PRESS/Nathan Denette

Ontario’s 2‑tier minimum wage: As discriminatory now as it was in the 1990s

Ontario almost joined Manitoba and Québec in eliminating the under-18 minimum wage 30 years ago. Then Bob Rae reneged on an election promise.
T.C. (Tommy) Douglas, shown in this 1961 photo being held up by supporters, after being chosen leader of the newly form New Democratic Party. He is held by trade unionist Claude Jodoin (left), national CCF president David Lewis and British Labour leader Hugh Gaitshell. (CP PHOTO)

The NDP turns 60: It’s never truly been the political arm of organized labour

The political muscle of unions that helped to launch the NDP in was never that strong in the first place. Even worse for the party, it’s atrophied considerably over the course of the last 60 years.

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