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…

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…
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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…