James Laxer

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  • Date of birth: 1941. December 22.
  • Place of birth: Montreal, Québec, Canada

James Robert Laxer, also known as Jim Laxer, was a Canadian political economist, historian, public intellectual, and political activist who served as a professor at York University. Best known as co-founder of the Waffle, on whose behalf he ran for the leadership of the New Democratic Party in 1971,...

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