The crisis of capitalism continues to deepen. This has exacerbated the housing crisis and led to an increase in homelessness across the country. Rising inflation and interest rates will only make things worse. The housing crisis in B.C. has been particularly acute, with university students hit particularly hard. According to British Columbia’s 2020-2021 homelessness survey, […]

Major roadways, including access to the Swartz Bay ferry terminal on Vancouver Island and the George Massey Tunnel, were blocked off June 13 during the Monday morning commute by Save Old Growth (SOG) protests. These protests are not the first of their kind, with the ongoing logging of old-growth trees facing a series of resistance […]

As federal and provincial governments prepare to spend $500 million on the celebration of Canada’s 150th “birthday”, Canadian workers continue to be forced to accept privatizations, falling living standards, and austerity. Sleek and expensive advertising campaigns celebrating a vague notion of “Canada” exist alongside child poverty affecting 1 in 5 children nationwide, a worsening shortage […]

On June 19, the Picket Lines Mean Do Not Cross campaign launched its opening event in Edmonton at Cessco Boilermakers’ picket headquarters, mere meters from the site where the unionized workers of Cessco have been locked-out for nearly two years.  Being at the heart of an ongoing job action went a long way towards heightening […]

A Toronto Star article published on June 10, 2022 revealed that the City of Toronto will be spending $1 million to contract a private security company to patrol the city’s parks this summer.  The purpose of these patrols is to prevent encampments of homeless people from springing up as they did last summer. Brad Ross, […]

On June 18, 750 CN Rail signal and communications workers in the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers (IBEW) Local 2052 went on strike across the country, demanding wages and benefits that keep up with inflation. The original offer that the union rejected involved a pay increase of only eight per cent over three years, with […]

In a recent article by the Toronto Star, it was found that police are not only repeatedly violating the Charter of Rights and Freedoms, but they are not even being notified when courts throw out cases because of police violations of Charter rights—let alone facing consequences for them. They found an astounding 600 court rulings […]

On May 10, the Trudeau government announced a $10 billion loan guarantee for the Trans Mountain Expansion (TMX), just three months after promising that “no more additional public money” will be spent on the project. If completed, the expansion will increase the pipeline system’s capacity from 300,000 to 890,000 barrels per day. The announcement garnered […]

High gas prices are hitting Rural and Suburban Mail Carriers (RSMCs) employed by Canada Post particularly hard. Unlike their urban counterparts, RSMCs are not provided with company vehicles. To make matters worse, these workers are also expected to provide their own vehicles containing at least 100 cubic meters of space or more. Such a threshold […]

By nearly all metrics, Indigenous people consistently rank as the worst-off group in Canada. Incarceration rates are no different. While incarceration rates as a whole have dropped off steadily through the past few decades, more Indigenous people are being imprisoned now than ever before.  The disparities in incarceration rates between Indigenous people and the rest […]