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Martin Lukacs

Martin Lukacs is a journalist living in Montreal, Canada. He is the author of The Trudeau Formula: Seduction and Betrayal in an Age of Discontent

October 2019

  • Justin Trudeau at a campaign rally in Montreal, October 2019

    Justin Trudeau is a fake progressive. Now Canada must vote for real ones

    Martin Lukacs
    Ahead of Monday’s election, little divides the Liberal prime minister and the reactionary Conservatives. But there is an alternative, says journalist and author Martin Lukacs

June 2018

  • Ontario PC leader Doug Ford reacts after winning the Ontario Provincial election to become the new premier, June 7, 2018.

    True North
    Doug Ford’s disastrous agenda can be derailed by a massive grassroots movement

    The right-wing triumph in Ontario shows the left needs a new populism – backed by street protest and a bold NDP

May 2018

  • Progressive Conservative leader Doug Ford makes an announcement during a campaign stop in Brantford, Ont, on Thursday, May 24, 2018.

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    Doug Ford isn’t “for the little guy” – he’s a mercenary for the millionaire class

    A surging NDP can defeat Canada’s Trump – whose folksy act is a front for an assault on working people and the environment

April 2018

  • Indigenous leaders from the Union of Indian Chiefs block the entrance to the Kinder Morgan pipeline project terminal work-site in Burnaby, British Columbia, Canada on April 7, 2018.

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    Who’s defending Canada’s national interest? First Nations facing down a pipeline

    Justin Trudeau is bailing out a Texas oil billionaire. He should be bailing out Canada’s workers and the climate.

February 2018

  • NDP leader Jagmeet Singh talks with a passerby as he visits Alma in the riding of Lac St-Jean on October 10, 2017.

    True North
    A less timid version of Justin Trudeau won’t cut it. The NDP must be bolder

  • Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at the National Press Theatre in Ottawa, Ontario, on Tuesday, Nov. 29, 2016.

    True North
    Revealed: Trudeau government welcomed oil lobby help for US pipeline push

October 2017

  • The Syncrude tar sands facility near Fort McKay, in Alberta, Canada.

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    Revealed: oil giants pay billions less tax in Canada than abroad

  • Secwepemc activist Kanahus Manuel in front of a tiny house being built in path of Kinder Morgan pipeline’s planned route through her Nation’s territory in British Columbia, Canada.

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    Indigenous rights 'serious obstacle' to Kinder Morgan pipeline, report says

August 2017

  • A family from Haiti walk to the US-Canada border to cross into Canada from Champlain, New York, U.S. August 11, 2017.

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    Welcoming Haitian refugees to Canada isn’t about generosity but justice

    Martin Lukacs: Canada has a hand in the misery Haitians are fleeing. Asylum should serve as reparations

July 2017

  • Wimbledon, London, UK. 27th April, 2015. A waste management company named Dirty Harry uses a poster of Lord Kitchener to urge the public to recycle.

    True North
    Neoliberalism has conned us into fighting climate change as individuals

    Martin Lukacs
    Stop obsessing with how personally green you live – and start collectively taking on corporate power

June 2017

  • Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has cynically continued many of his Conservative predecessor’s policies, while UK Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn now stands within reach of government with a redistributive agenda.

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    Justin Trudeau deploys the politics of hype. Jeremy Corbyn offers politics of hope

    Martin Lukacs
  • BC Green leader Andrew Weaver and BC New Democrat leader John Horgan sign a coalition pact to replace the Liberal government in British Columbia, Canada May 30, 2017.

    True North
    Need climate hope? Imagine the promise of green left-wing victories in Canada

March 2017

  • A ring around the sun, is seen over Fort Lauderdale, Fla., Friday, May 17, 2002. The halo is a rare effect on the sun caused by a layer of ice crystals in the atmosphere refracting light from the sun.

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    Trump presidency 'opens door' to planet-hacking geoengineer experiments

    As geoengineer advocates enter Trump administration, plans advance to spray sun-reflecting chemicals into atmosphere

February 2017

  • Canadian Conservative leadership contender Kevin O'Leary speaks to the Ontario Chamber of Commerce.

    True North
    Afraid of the rise of a Canadian Trump? Progressive populism is the answer

    Anti-establishment sentiment is surging to a record high—the question now is who will capture and channel it.

January 2017

  • Demonstrators gather to protest against US President Trump’s travel ban executive orders, outside of the international arrivals terminal at Philadelphia International Airport in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA, 29 January 2017. EPA/TRACIE VAN AUKEN

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    Justin Trudeau's tweets won’t make Canada a refugee haven—but popular pressure can

    The Prime Minister’s refugee-friendly branding has veiled Canada’s fortress policies that are in urgent need of overhaul

December 2016

  • Native American “water protectors” celebrate that the Army Corps of Engineers has denied an easement for the $3.8 billion Dakota Access Pipeline, inside of the Oceti Sakowin camp, near Cannon Ball, North Dakota, U.S., December 4, 2016.

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    Standing Rock is a modern-day Indian war. This time Indians are winning

    Martin Lukacs
    A historic growing movement for Indigenous rights is a key to protecting land and water and preventing climate chaos

November 2016

  • Canada’s Prime Minister Justin Trudeau holds a press conference at the conclusion of the APEC Summit in Lima, November 20, 2016.

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    Justin Trudeau’s giant corporate giveaway

    Martin Lukacs: A privatization spree in Canada could cost regular people billions, erode democracy and undermine the fight against climate change

September 2016

  • Prime Minister Justin Trudeau poses after receiving a ceremonial headdress while visiting the Tsuut’ina First Nation near Calgary, Alberta, Friday, March 4, 2016. (Jeff McIntosh/The Canadian Press via AP)

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    Justin Trudeau’s lofty rhetoric on First Nations a cheap simulation of justice

    Martin Lukacs: An era of so-called reconciliation has disguised the continuation of Harper-era land and resource grabs

May 2016

  • A charred vehicle and homes are pictured in the Beacon Hill neighbourhood of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada, May 9, 2016 after wildfires forced the evacuation of the town.

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    The arsonists of Fort McMurray have a name

    Fossil fuel corporations are causing the climate change fuelling mega-fires – and they should be footing the bill for the devastation

April 2016

  • Wind mills and solar panels alternative energy production.

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    Surprise, the pundits were wrong: poll shows huge support for Leap Manifesto

    Canadians across the political spectrum want a bold challenge to the status quo—and it’s up to the NDP to provide it
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