by John WilsonOn the morning of May 26 about 150 people demonstrated at Toronto Pride's offices against the decision to ban any reference to Israeli apartheid at this year's annual Pride Parade, dyke march and trans march. The parade, one…
an International Educational Conference May 20, 21, 22, 23, 2010 at Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, U of Toronto, 252 Bloor Street Westco-sponsored by: Socialist Action / Ligue pour l'Action socialiste – Canadian state, Socialist Action – USA, and…
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by Christian WhittallThe Free Times Cafe was packed to the gills on the evening of Saturday, May 1, for Toronto’s 24th Annual Socialist May Day Celebration. The lively, convivial atmosphere may have seemed in sharp contrast to the rather dire-sounding…
by Barry WeislederAt the risk of being found in contempt of Parliament, Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s Conservative minority government still refuses to release documents pertaining to the torture of detainees handed over by Canadian forces to Afghan authorities. If House…
by Barry WeislederThe big issues on the agenda for the G8 and G20 Summits in Huntsville and Toronto in June include climate change, nuclear weapons, Afghanistan, and the state of the world economy. Poverty, hunger, and disease as a function…
by Barry WeislederWhile child and maternal health is supposed to be a top priority at the G8 Summit in June, host Prime Minister Stephen Harper will have a tough time reconciling his federal budget with his public relations spin.Ottawa’s budget…
by Barry WeislederWhile most of us have been trying to cope with the ongoing ‘Great Recession’, Canadian bankers have been busy with their own expansion plans. Showing that Canada’s banks weathered the crash better than their American counterparts, TD Bank…
Here are some pictures taken at a wonderful evening of spoken word, music, songs and solidarity at Toronto's Free Times Cafe. Over eighty people crowded the venue in downtown Toronto's traditional working class garment district to celebrate International Workers' Day.…
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by Barry Weisleder After eight months on strike, workers in Sudbury, Ontario overwhelmingly rejected contract demands from the Brazilian-based nickel giant Vale Inco on March 12. More than 88 per cent of members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 voted down…
by Barry Weisleder It was a tough winter for the labour-based New Democratic Party. Federal Leader Jack Layton is bravely battling prostate cancer (we wish him a full and speedy recovery). Without missing a beat, he kept hammering the Harper…
Toronto Socialist Action Presents -REBEL FILMSFriday, March 26 - 7 p.m. Capitalism: A Love Story 2009, 127 minutes. A documentary directed, written by and starring Michael Moore. The film centers on the financial crisis of 2007-2010 and the recovery stimulus,…
by Barry WeislederPrime Minister Stephen Harper said he had to prorogue (suspend) Parliament for three months in order to “re-calibrate” his minority Conservative government. What he meant by that became depressingly clear in the 2010 federal budget presented on March…
Toronto’s 24th Annual Socialist May Day CelebrationECO-SOCIALISM OR EXTINCTIONSpeakers:Jorge Soberon, Consul General of Cuba in TorontoMirna Quero de Pena Consul General in Toronto of the Bolivarian Republic of VenezuelaJohn Clarke (written message) organizer, Ontario Coalition Against Poverty Ali Mallah Vice-President…
From the heroic class struggles of late nineteenth century America, to an environmentally toxic, tyrannical, all too possible near future, here are some mid-winter readings likely to stimulate your dissidence.Unsurprisingly, the fiasco of the climate change summit in Copenhagen led…
Canada's highest-paid CEOs raked in an average of $7,352,895 in 2008, the latest year for which statistics are available. That is 174 times more than the average wage of a worker in Canada."To put that in perspective, Canadians will work…
Answer to Roger Rashi Québec solidaire is not Die Linke, still less the French NPA… Rather more like an NDP-plus which could evolve into a plain NDP. Québec solidaire is not to be compared to old left 20th century parties,…
by Robbie MahoodQuebec’s small mass left-wing party, Quebec Solidaire(QS), held its fifth convention in a Montreal suburb on November 20-22, 2009. About 300 delegates and observers gathered to further a process of political clarification initiated by the leadership.In 2008, QS…
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by Barry WeislederFor the Canadian government, the 12-day Copenhagen climate change summit in December 2009 was a public relations disaster – deservedly so, as the Stephen Harper Tories slavishly followed Washington's lead, even trying to scupper the weak legacy of…
by Barry WeislederFor the second year in a row, the Conservative minority government asked Governor-General Michaelle Jean to prorogue, or suspend, Parliament for the winter months in order to avoid political accountability and a potential loss of office. Shamefully, the…
by Barry WeislederPension plans and retirement savings have been hit hard by the downturn. The security of many Canadians is at risk. Some companies even want to cut defined benefit plans that employees paid into throughout their working lives. (That's…
