On Aug. 25, the provincial executives of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers’ Federation (OSSTF) voted on a “pathway to resolve outstanding bargaining issues.” This “pathway” is to allow an arbitrator to decide on any part of the contract that isn’t settled by Oct. 27. The decision of the arbitrator would then be automatically binding, with no opportunity for the members to decide if it is acceptable or not. If this proposed pathway is accepted by the membership, it would prevent any strike or other labour action. This is a recipe for another bad contract.

Canadian mining and apparel lobbyists are asking the federal government to halt new legislation targeting slavery and child labour in supply chains. This corporate stalling not only serves as an admission of complicity, but also reveals the lucrative nature of forced labour under capitalism.

Given the skyrocketing price of electricity, and the inevitable loss of jobs in renewable energy that will result from this ban, Danielle Smith’s moratorium on renewable energy projects economically hurts the vast majority of Albertans. The only group that stands to gain from this are the competitors to renewable energy: oil and gas companies. 

Library workers in Bradford, Ontario have now been on strike for six weeks, seeking their first union contract to protect them from wage and benefit cuts.

In August 1913, Vancouver Island was engulfed in class struggle. The coal miners strike of 1912-1914, the Great Strike as it is called, crippled Vancouver Island for nearly two years as workers flew the red flag on Canadian soil. Coal miners on Vancouver Island rose up against the mining bosses and defied the power of the Canadian state, taking over the town of Ladysmith for three days, and bringing the Island to the brink of an all-out class war. 

The massive forest fires sweeping across Canada this summer continue to wreak havoc, and have now forced the evacuation of a first (territorial) capital, Yellowknife. It seems that one plague after another is befalling humankind. Except that, unlike the ten plagues of Egypt, this destruction is not the work of God, but of mere mortals: the capitalists.

A recent report from the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives finds that the cost of a one-bedroom apartment exceeds what minimum-wage workers can afford in nearly all of Canada’s urban centres. Across the country, the ruling class has proven itself to be utterly incapable of providing adequate housing for its workers. Between low wages and […]

A recent report from the Auditor General of Ontario on Doug Ford’s Greenbelt Project has revealed that Ford and his ministers were making decisions entirely directed by housing developers. While it was already clear to everybody that the plan was a handout to Ford’s developer buddies, this is a level of collusion beyond what anyone suspected. 

Meta, the social media giant that owns Facebook and Instagram, began blocking all news from its platforms in Canada in August. For communists, the banning of news on platforms owned by billionaires underscores the need for an independent workers’ press through the production and distribution of a physical newspaper.

On July 21 Nova Scotia was hit by devastating floods. Four people are dead, including two six year-olds and one 14 year-old, after the vehicles they were evacuating in were swept off the road and submerged in floodwaters. We must be clear that the blame for the damage and tragic loss of life lies squarely at the feet of the bosses and the capitalist system.