On October 18th, Prime Minister Harper introduced legislation to dismantle the 68 year old, farmer-controlled Canadian Wheat Board (CWB). With a Conservative majority in Parliament, it is expected the Bill will become law before Christmas. Legislation to come into effect…
Flush from its part in NATO's bloody intervention in Libya to impose a pro-western government there, Canada's Defence Minister Peter MacKay said Ottawa will not rule out military action in Syria. Speaking to the International Security Forum in Halifax on…
Refugees will increasingly be victimized by Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s majority federal government, thanks to Bill C-4, the Conservatives’ new immigration reform bill. The bill empowers the government to label certain refugees “designated foreign nationals”, whenever it believes that it will…
Montreal MP Thomas Mulcair, a former Quebec Liberal cabinet minister who takes pride in his role in early 'free trade' negotiations, brings a decidedly pro-capitalist, anti-Quebec self-determination perspective to the New Democratic Party leadership race. When Mulcair announced his candidacy,…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->The last thing the labour movement needs at this time is division. Yet this is exactly what is happening due to a dispute between officers of the Ontario Federation of Labour, including OFL President Sid Ryan,…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> Despite high winds and cold showers, scores of anti-war activists in Toronto took to the streets on Saturday, October 15 to demand an end to the ten-year-long war of occupation in Afghanistan. A coalition of…
Read More Toronto marches demand ‘Canada Out of Afghanistan’, Stop the cuts at City Hall
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> Workers in Canada are over-stressed and under-rewarded in the capitalist pressure cooker we call every day life.There is greater productivity, but growing inequality and less personal enjoyment, according to the Canadian Index of Wellbeing. The…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->A month before facing voters in the October 6 Ontario provincial election, the governing Liberals decided to require a more stringent approval process for a controversial proposal to dig a massive quarry in a sensitive environmental…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->As voters troop to the polls in six provincial and territorial elections across Canada in October and November, they do so in the shadow of another global economic melt down. Stocks are falling, markets are contracting…
Canada's Prime Minister Stephen Harper kicked off his first Conservative-majority Parliament on September 19 by introducing changes to the criminal justice system that seek to put more people in prison and keep them there longer.The Tory crime bill imposes mandatory…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->NDP socialists are looking for a left wing alternative to Brian Topp, the back room strategist who announced his candidacy for the federal party leadership. In June, at the NDP federal convention in Vancouver, Topp expressed…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->On Thursday, September 1, Barry Weisleder, chairperson of the NDP Socialist Caucus, won the nomination to be the NDP candidate in Thornhill constituency, just north of Toronto. Two days later Darlene Lawson, the Ontario NDP provincial…
S’il ne s’agissait que d’une séance de photo des chefs d’État des vingt plus grands pays capitalistes du monde, assortie d’une facture obscène de plus de un milliard de dollars pour la sécurité, ça serait déjà gros. Mais le sommet…
Read More Changeons le système ! pas le climat ! Socialisme ou Barbarie !
Jeudi le 1er septembre, Barry Weisleder, président du Caucus Socialiste du NPD, a remporté l'investiture pour être le candidat du NPD dans la circonscription de Thornhill, au nord de Toronto. Deux jours plus tard, Darlene Lawson, la secrétaire du NPD…
Read More Protestons contre la violation de la démocratie par la bureaucratie du NPD de l’Ontario
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->Tax cuts for the rich. Service cuts and fee hikes for the rest of us. That's how the bosses make workers pay for the capitalist crisis around the world. Ontario, Canada's most populous province, is no…
The death of NDP federal Leader Jack Layton evoked an immense outpouring of sadness and solidarity across the Canadian state. The popularity of Layton, who led his party to unprecedented electoral success on May 2 despite his apparent illness, prompted…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]--> Colleges of Applied Arts and Technology support staff, represented by the Ontario Public Service Employees' Union, went on strike on September 1 to defend full time jobs and to challenge the threat of a two-tier…
Nearly three-quarters of Canadian households carry some debt, according to a Harris-Decima survey done for the CIBC. Over four in ten households find their debt interferes with achieving financial goals such as saving for retirement or paying for children's education.…
<!--[if !mso]> st1\:*{behavior:url(#ieooui) } <![endif]-->Many retired employees of GM of Canada (GMC) attended meetings held in early August about the proposed settlement between them and GM of Canada on the future of retiree health care benefits. The settlement will put…
Il y a deux cent ans, plus précisément le 5 juillet, le Venezuela a gagné son indépendance de l'Espagne. La lutte de l'humanité d'aujourd'hui pour la libération de l'exploitation capitaliste et impérialiste continue. Les Vénézuéliens sont au premier plan de…
Read More Approfondir la Révolution, renforcer la solidarité
