by John Wilson The recent furor over the Toronto Blue Jays baseball player Yunel Escobar’s anti-gay slur has subsided, but it demonstrates a number of things. (Escobar played through a game with the words “Tu Ere(sic) Maricon –“you’re a faggot”…
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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[Go to the bottom of the page to see the videos] Jorge Soberon, Consul General of Cuba Over eighty people jammed into Toronto's Free Times Cafe on the evening of April 28, 2012 to hear speeches, greetings and live music…
by Barry Weisleder. Some are already calling it the New Liberal Democratic Party. That’s clearly premature. The New Democratic Party of Canada remains a working-class, labour-based, mass electoral party. One glance at the 4000-plus delegates at its March 23-24 convention…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> In February, Canada's youth unemployment rate leapt to a 15-month high of 14.5 per cent – almost double the cross--country average. Mind you, those are official rates, which usually overlook people who have given up…
