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Carney may be better than Poilievre, but serious issues remain
A consummate technocrat like Mark Carney, committed in his bones to neoliberalism, can only exacerbate the economic pain.
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Canada: Anschluss, Schulterschluss or concrete internationalism?
To begin, we must also ask: what is Trump 2.0? It is far more than a vengeful new U.S. administration.
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The U.S. saw just half of the number of strikes in 2024 as Canada
This past week, the School of Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) at Cornell University once again released the annual report of its Labor Action Tracker (LAT), which records all strikes and lockouts in the United States.
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Free Yves Engler
In today’s Canada, offending Zionist influencers is enough to land you behind bars.
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Canadian political prisoner, Yves Engler
On dozens of occasions I’ve responded to Kurtz’ racist, violent anti-Palestinian posts on X. Six weeks ago I wrote an article..
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Time to think beyond ‘worthless’ free trade agreements
“Why should we feel constrained by a free trade agreement?”
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Trump’s threats expose Canada’s utter dependency on the U.S.
The immediate task for Canada should be to delink from the United States and the American Empire.
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Canadian hands in Congo drip with the blood of millions
Ottawa has stayed silent on Rwandan aggression while continuing to back Africa’s most ruthless regime led by Paul Kagame.
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Amazon closures an act of economic terrorism
These closures are a cruel, anti-democratic attack on all workers that demand a strong response from unions across Canada.
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To respond to Trump’s tariffs, Canada should nationalize its oil industry
We need to build our own resilience against the increasingly unpredictable acts of our belligerent neighbours to the south.
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Canada and Ukraine: The suppression of a shameful history
A few days before Remembrance Day, November 11, 2024, the Government of Canada announced that it will not release that portion of a report produced by the Commission of Inquiry into War Criminals in Canada (Deschênes Commission) that names 900 Canadians accused of war crimes committed on behalf of the Nazis.
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Why be a doormat?
Canadian leaders are falling over themselves to placate the incoming Trump administration. It doesn’t have to be this way.
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Israeli historian accuses Canadian media of enabling Gaza war crimes
Lee Mordechai says Israel’s war has been “enabled and facilitated by massive media efforts to shape discourse” in the West.
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Plastics treaty failure shows need to curtail oil industry
Oil companies have long lied about the impacts of burning their fuels. They also lie about the plastic they produce. The treaty talks were no exception.
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Mali’s government issues arrest warrant for Canadian mining company CEO
On December 2, 2024, Mali’s popular anti-imperialist government issued an arrest warrant for Canadian mining company Barrick Gold’s CEO, Mark Bristow, a South African national who fought for the apartheid army in the 1970s.
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A cancelled Yahya Sinwar vigil, and the Canadian mayor with a backbone
On October 17, 2024, then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar was murdered by Israel in Gaza.
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Canada Post strikers are fighting for more than postal workers
The current strike by 55,000 Canada Post workers is about more than postal workers.
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Canada promises climate reparations at COP29 while courting Big Oil at home
With spotlight on politicians and their pledges in Baku, fossil fuel lobbyists are racking up private meetings with Trudeau’s government.
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Brett Christophers on our growing ‘asset-manager society’
Many people now live in homes and rely on infrastructure that are owned by pension funds, insurance companies, and banks.
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How the far-right nearly took over B.C.
There’s a chance now for bold reforms to save lives and strengthen the social safety net for those most in need.