We must begin to curb the power of corporations

The deliberate starvation of government, climate change, grotesque inequality, Dickensian working conditions, environmental degradation, dwindling bio-diversity, the slow (or not so slow) death of the oceans and the creation of the security state on their behalf threaten not only the natural world but our capacity to democratically govern ourselves while maintaining some semblance of civilization.

Prime Minister Justin Trudeau pictured recently walking down the stairway from his Centre Block office into the House Chamber. The Hill Times photograph by Andrew Meade

Opinion

BY MURRAY DOBBIN

December 4, 2017

POWELL RIVER, B.C.—The revelations of the Paradise papers, the earlier Panama Papers and numerous articles in the western mainstream and alternative media demonstrate just one dimension, tax evasion, of an increasingly obvious truth: global corporations (and those they make rich) have become the g...

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