The right-wing premiers of Quebec, Ontario and Alberta are empowering non-essential businesses to recall their staff while new COVID-19 variants spread—putting some of the worst paid, least secure workers at enormous risk. While these provinces lead daily COVID-19 case counts, while individual gatherings remain highly restricted and while hospitals remain vulnerable, business, we are told, […]

After countless pleas from workers and retirees, NDP Leader Jagmeet Singh has called on the Liberal government to end for profit long-term care facilities. This is a very good demand and it is encouraging that the NDP is taking it on. But then Singh clarified that an NDP government would only do this by 2030. […]

In July of last year, Alberta’s UCP government announced that Albertan children would be returning to school in person in the fall after having spent the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic learning online. All students and staff were to be provided with two reusable masks for the year to help prevent the spread of the […]

The 2021 Montreal Marxist Winter School was truly an unprecedented event. More than 1150 people registered to participate in the school, which had ten presentations over three days, making this by far the largest Canadian Marxist meeting in recent memory. With big class battles on the horizon, the forces of Marxism are growing in preparation.

Hickman Chrysler Dodge Jeep salespeople, organized with Teamsters Local 855 in St. John’s, Newfoundland, are entering their third week of struggle after being locked out by the dealership. This comes after the union went through a failed conciliation process with the employer. Since the beginning, workers wanted nothing more than to keep their existing contract […]

In an ever-more polarized world, trust in the media is on a downwards trend. This is with good reason. The TV networks and newspapers are owned and controlled by a small number of capitalists who decide what dominates the news cycle, and what editorial line is presented. In Canada, a single corporation—Postmedia Network—owns nearly 45 […]

The despotic President of Haiti, Jovenel Moïse, is refusing to step down, while the impotent bourgeois opposition appears incapable of forcing him out. The Haitian masses must break with the rotten bourgeois regime altogether, and establish a revolutionary constituent assembly.

On Feb. 3, the federal government formally declared the Proud Boys and several other groups to be terrorist organizations, officially adding them to the state’s list of terrorist entities. This move was largely the result of a campaign against the far right launched several months ago by the NDP.    The official designation as a terrorist […]

The news of the arrival of COVID-19 vaccines gave millions a reason to hope for a swift end to the pandemic. But these hopes are quickly being dashed as the rollout is beset by countless delays. At the heart of these delays is the profit motive and production for profit inherent to the capitalist system, […]

As people everywhere anxiously wait for doses of the COVID-19 vaccine to become available, and death tolls rise by the day, a Canadian casino tycoon and his actor wife managed to jump to the head of the line.  On Jan. 19, the now former CEO of the Great Canadian Gaming Corporation, Rodney Baker, and Ekatrina […]