Doug Ford has many tricks up his sleeve. After more than three years of the most vicious attacks on working-class people, and the criminal mishandling of the pandemic, the premier of Ontario has at last turned a new leaf! Yesterday, we had Doug Ford the callous millionaire; today we have Doug Ford the Good, “man […]

This article was originally published in French on marxiste.qc.ca During Québec solidaire’s congress on Nov. 19-21, Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois set the tone when he said that the left-wing party was “preparing to govern.” How? The debates during the weekend show for all to see that the party leadership and the MNAs are “preparing” by moderating the […]

Lambton-area Clean Harbors workers are on strike against the largest waste management company in North America, demanding wage increases and protection from reprisals should they refuse unsafe work. On Nov. 22 custodians, thermal desorption workers, lab workers and fill operators, represented by Unifor Local 914, went on strike against Clean Harbors in Corunna. Their contract […]

Torrential rains have caused devastation across British Columbia. Hundreds of people have been trapped by landslides, thousands have been forced to evacuate, and hundreds of thousands have gone without electricity. The city of Vancouver, the second largest port in North America, has been cut off from the rest of Canada. But this biblical-scale flooding is […]

At 11 a.m. on Nov. 12, between 200 and 250 students attending Marc Garneau Collegiate Institute in Toronto walked out of their classrooms. They entered the streets chanting “Free Palestine!”, “Hey, hey, TDSB, Palestine will be free”, “TDSB, we will not be silenced!”, “Justice for Javier Davila!” and “Justice for Desmond Cole!”. During the hour […]

High River Cargill workers voted 97 per cent to strike against benefit cuts and workplace hazards—after the company’s negligence led directly to some of Canada’s worst COVID-19 outbreaks. On Nov. 4, an estimated 1,400 United Food and Commercial Workers Local 401 members at Cargill’s High River beef plant voted overwhelmingly to strike.  The union issued […]

Members of the Gidimt’en clan of the Wet’suwet’en nation enforced an eviction order against Coastal GasLink (CGL) on Sunday, Nov. 14, ordering the corporation to cease operations and leave Wet’suwet’en territory. The eviction order was originally issued by the hereditary chiefs of all five clans of the Wet’suwet’en in January 2020. In February of that […]

Inuit parents have launched a lawsuit against the Government of Nunavut for its failure to provide Inuktut language schooling to students. The two parents, along with Nunavut Tunngavik Inc. (NTI)—the corporation that legally represents the Inuit of Nunavut in treaty negotiations—assert that the government is violating the constitutional rights of Inuit children to not be […]

On Saturday, Nov. 13, the Central Bargaining Team of CUPE New Brunswick announced an end to the strike of 22,000 public sector workers. In an announcement on their Facebook page, it was explained that they had reached an agreement that they would put to the members for a vote. However, as there have been no […]

In the wake of the chaos caused by COVID-19, more Canadians than ever before are having trouble meeting their basic food needs, according to Food Banks Canada’s annual HungerCount report. Despite being the 10th wealthiest nation in the world whose billionaire class grew their profits by $78 billion since the beginning of the pandemic, Canada […]