Desperate to change the channel on his scandal-wracked administration, Dalton McGuinty announced this evening, October 15, that he is stepping down as Ontario Premier and Leader of the Ontario Liberal Party. McGuinty won't be missed. But his decision to prorogue…
Ottawa's decision to cut diplomatic ties with Iran is a desperate political move to try to sustain a reactionary and unpopular policy. Nothing to do with any Iranian threat to global peace and security, it is designed to counter the…
by Robbie Mahood Coming on the heels of the mass mobilisations of Quebec’s ‘printemps erable’ (Maple Spring), the September 4 vote result is disappointing. The election of a minority Parti Quebecois (PQ) government brings to an end a nine year…
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by Barry Weisleder About two thousand people braved persistent rainfall and cool temperatures on September 22 to celebrate the recent partial victory of the Quebec students' movement. They rallied at Parc Lafontaine and marched through the streets of downtown Montreal,…
Ottawa's decision to cut diplomatic ties with Iran is a desperate political move to try to sustain a reactionary and unpopular policy. Nothing to do with any Iranian threat to global peace and security, it is designed to counter the…
by Bruce Allen, Vice-President of CAW Local 199, and V.P. Niagara Regional Labour Council (writing in a personal capacity) Just prior to the start of the 2012 Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) Collective Bargaining and Constitutional Convention, held in…
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The general council of the United Church of Canada, the country's largest Protestant denomination, voted in mid-August to support a boycott of goods produced in Israeli settlements on the West Bank and in East Jerusalem. The 350…
by Tyler Mackinnon College and university students are now just entering or returning to school after summer vacation. However this year things are a bit different. Many students are asking this question: Are we going to go on strike? Since…
As the winds of mass protest and demands for change continue to surge across Quebec, now is the time for students and working people in English Canada to march in solidarity with the students' movement. What began as opposition to…
Read More Spread the Quebec Strike! Solidarity with the Students!
On May 19, 2012, Quebec’s Liberal government passed draconian legislation, Law 78, to smash the mass student strike which has shaken Quebec society over the past 4 months. The so-called Loi de Matraque (truncheon law) is an attack on the…
Two years after the event, the flak continues to fly, but justice remains elusive. With no open, unlimited public enquiry, and after several 'reviews' and reports, only a couple of dozen cops have been accused of misdeeds under administrative police…
Read More Charge, Try, Jail Criminal Cops of the Toronto G20 Summit
Two major unions in Canada, now in merger talks, want to include workers who lack collective bargaining rights. Is it a step forward, a way to reverse decades of decline, or just a cynical move to make bureaucrats look good?…
Read More Union Merger and Innovative Organizing: Is it the way Forward?
First it was postal workers. Then Air Canada workers. Now 4,800 workers are the victims of aggressive concession demands, backed up by federal back to work legislation. The question is: What are the Canadian Labour Congress and its major affiliates…
Read More CP workers Railroaded Labour Tops Fail to Defend Right to Strike
Dozens of anti-war demonstrators picketed Saturday across the street from the U.S. consulate in Toronto to condemn NATO talks on the future of the Afghan mission ahead of the NATO summit in Chicago, which begins Sunday. The NATO mission in…
A previous Liberal government cynically entered into it, and systematically violated it. The present Conservative government thumbed its nose at it from the start, and unceremoniously quit the treaty on Dec. 12. Despite its abject weaknesses, including low targets and…
The big business Conference Board of Canada predicts that 2012 will be a year of major labour-management strife across the Canadian state. The big business Conference Board of Canada predicts that 2012 will be a year of major labour-management strife…
On November 23 police enforced an Ontario Superior Court order to Occupy Toronto to vacate St. James Park, a few blocks from Canada's corporate financial hub. Occupy camps around the world, from Oakland, California, to London, England, from New York…
