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Oct 27, 2025 - Beyond the ‘Elbows Up’ Response to the Tariff War

By Robert Chernomas and Fred Wilson

Canada's long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended. The election of a tariff-obsessed, unpredictable, incompetent, crony capitalist autocratic Donald Trump administration requires Canada to rethink its economic future. Fortunately, our common history provides guidance on how to deal with such a massive exigency.

Source: The Bullet No. 3208

Oct 24, 2025 - Geopolitics Isn’t Killing Global Supply Chains – It’s Powering Them

By Benjamin Selwyn

Global supply chains (GSCs) - which account for around 70 percent of international trade - are often referred to as the backbone of the world economy. As tensions rise between major powers - especially the United States and China - many commentators fear for the future of GSCs, and hence, the world economy. Such projections overlook how geopolitical rivalries have stimulated the development of advanced technologies, which, in turn, enabled the rise and ongoing transformation of global supply chains.

Source: The Bullet No. 3207

Oct 22, 2025 - We Won’t Be Locked Out

The long-vacant property at 214-230 Sherbourne Street has become a symbol of Toronto's deepening housing crisis - and the site of a determined community campaign to reclaim it for social housing. For more than two years, 230 Fightback, a grassroots coalition of residents and anti-poverty advocates, has challenged corporate developer KingSett Capital, demanding that the property be converted into affordable housing rather than luxury condominiums. The group argues that this fight is about more than one address - it's about the right of low-income residents to remain in their communities.

Source: LeftStreamed

Oct 19, 2025 - Germany: A Left-Wing, Grassroots Orientation for Die Linke

Violetta Bock interviewed by Antoine Larrache

The defining feature of the situation in Germany is the decline of the 'old West'. This applies both to its military and geopolitical role in the US-European alliance and to the economic basis of that alliance: the era when Germany occupied a leading position in European industry and played a dominant role in the global economy seems to be over for the time being, and there is currently no indication that this evolution could be halted or even reversed.

Source: The Bullet No. 3206

Oct 18, 2025 - The Crisis at Canada Post

With its recent announcement to 'modernize' Canada Post, the Mark Carney government has, for all intents and purposes, dusted off the Harper-era "Five Point Action Plan" aimed at gutting the public postal service. In the midst of a bitter, two-year labour dispute with the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), the government gave notice that it would accept and implement the recommendations put forward in labour arbitrator William Kaplan's May 2025 Industrial Inquiry Commission report.

Source: The Bullet No. 3205