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    Counterpoint

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    Counterpoint is CUPE’s national quarterly magazine. Counterpoint is designed to bring you news on issues important to CUPE members from a national perspective.

    Progressive conservative wage cuts fuelling Ontario’s unprecedented health care crisis

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    Mark Hancock

    Equality and empathy is the solution to right-wing frauds and cynics

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    How right-wing governments use disasters like a pandemic to advance their agenda

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    A long way from reconciliation: budget 2022 misses the mark in the search for unmarked graves

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    Post-pandemic health and safety: what do we need from our governments?

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    The UCP’s attack on Alberta’s public education has hurt us all

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    Brazilian workers aim to turn tide of water privatization in Fall election

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    Profile Karla Sastaunik - Giving students an equal chance to succeed: one Educational Assistant’s fight against austerity

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    2022 Québec election: chronology of a pending victory for a government out of touch with real people

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    Counterpoint - Summer 2022
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    Counterpoint - COVID-19 Special Edition
    Counterpoint - Winter 2020
    Counterpoint - Fall 2019
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    Counterpoint - Spring 2019
    Counterpoint - Fall 2018
    Counterpoint - Summer 2018

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