On Saturday, Dec. 4 in Brampton, students and workers of the Naujawan Support Network (NSN) led a militant demonstration against wage theft. The action was directed in particular against a restaurant called Chat Hut, which had stolen over $18,000 in wages from a young international student and worker. This demonstration was one part of a […]

Thousands of faculty members at Ontario’s 26 colleges are being threatened with a lockout. The Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) representing the college faculty has made modest demands and even offered to make further compromises to avoid a strike or lockout. Instead of returning to negotiations, the College Employer Council (CEC) sensed the weakness […]

The NDP leadership likes to present themselves as supporters of Indigenous people, but in the Wet’suwet’en struggle the sad reality is that the B.C. NDP is primarily responsible for this violation of Indigenous rights. The federal NDP is not much better, issuing equivocal statements in order to camouflage the actions of their provincial counterparts. It […]

Students and workers are mobilizing in Brampton against wage-theft by their bosses. The Naujawan (youth) Support Network (NSN)—a group of workers including those from trucking, construction, manufacturing, restaurants and grocery stores—is bringing workers together to use their collective strength to fight exploitative small business owners. NSN not only organizes workers facing exploitation and abuse from […]

The Canadian housing market, already one of the biggest housing bubbles in the entire world, has seen a massive expansion over the past year. With historically low interest rates, a rush of real estate purchases over the past year have led to skyrocketing housing prices. This recent period of purchasing has largely been driven by […]

On Nov. 2, the University of Manitoba Faculty Association (UMFA), which represents 1,2000 instructors, professors, and librarians, walked off the job to demand higher pay. The union has said that low pay has made it difficult to hire and retain new faculty, leading to “brain drain.” As a matter of fact, University of Manitoba (U […]

Newly released documents reveal that Canadian officials met with members of a neo-nazi Ukrainian regiment, the Azov Battalion, and were more concerned with PR than anything else. The Canadian state is nothing if not hypocritical. It plays up a progressive image at home while aiding Nazis abroad.  The Azov Battalion is part of an international […]

The city of Iqaluit, capital of Nunavut, has been under a state of emergency since Oct. 12 due to contamination of their water supply. Residents started to voice growing concerns over foul-smelling tap water as early as Oct 2. On Oct 4, the city inspected the water treatment plant, taking samples from half a dozen […]

Last weekend’s UCP annual general meeting in Calgary looked more and more like a dress rehearsal for the downfall of Jason Kenney. Even after mobilizing party staffers to stack the meeting with his supporters and paying their registration fees through a dubious scheme involving political action committees (PACs), the party apparatchiks could not muster the […]

On Monday, Nov. 22, 780 warehouse and delivery workers launched an unlimited strike against Quebec’s alcohol crown corporation, the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ). The strike is an escalation from last week’s one-day walkout which failed to produce concessions from the government.  The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), which represents these workers, denounced […]