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Big banks double profit due to government bailouts

Christina Kupchenko-Frolick ★ Jun 11, 2021

While the working class is grappling with economic uncertainty during the pandemic, Canada’s big banks are absolutely thriving. Toronto Dominion Bank (TD), Royal Bank of Canada (RBC), Bank of Montreal (BMO), Scotiabank and National Bank of Canada all saw Q2 profits more than double what they were this time last year, with RBC taking home […]

Canada

Crisis in Newfoundland and Labrador: From Churchill Falls to ‘The Big Reset’

Liam Kroll & Leona Wood ★ Jun 10, 2021

On May 6, the Newfoundland and Labrador Premier’s Economic Recovery Team (PERT) released a report and statement outlining an economic “Big Reset” for the province. The PERT report makes numerous recommendations to Liberal premier Andrew Furey. These recommendations are painted as a strategic plan to reduce the provincial debt—which has ballooned to $39 billion, the […]

History

Boycott Wine Rack: Support the Wine Rack strike!

Olive Pape ★ Jun 9, 2021

On Monday, June 7, Toronto Wine Rack workers unionized with Service Employees International Local 2 (SEIU Local 2) began the first day of their strike, following a May 10 strike vote with 86 per cent in support. The Wine Rack is owned by Arterra Wines Canada, which is itself owned by the Ontario Teachers’ Pension […]

Labour

Muslim family murdered in London, Ontario – Only the working class can end racist violence

Renu Brar ★ Jun 9, 2021

On Sunday June 6, Nathaniel Veltman purposefully jumped the curb and drove his vehicle into a Muslim family of five in London, Ontario. Tragically, four members of the family have died while the 9 year-old son remains in the hospital. This is the worst incident of racially motivated violence in Canada since the shooting at […]

Racism

How to fight scabs

Matt Gardner ★ Jun 8, 2021

Unifor has launched a national campaign calling on all elected officials at the federal, provincial and territorial levels to pass legislation against the use of replacement workers, AKA scabs. Fightback supports anti-scab laws, but these will only be enacted if the labour movement abandons support for the pro-scab Liberals and institutes policies declaring that picket […]

Labour

Protests topple Egerton Ryerson’s statue—now we must topple for-profit education!

Katherine Duff ★ Jun 7, 2021

At the end of May, the bodies of 215 Indigenous children were found buried in unmarked graves underneath the Kamloops Indian Residential School on the Tk’emlups te’ Secwepemc First Nation in BC. This discovery has reignited feelings of anger amongst Indigenous people, as well as wide layers of workers and students throughout Canada and has […]

Ontario

Wage subsidy: Major profits, major hypocrisy

Olivier Turbide ★ Jun 4, 2021

Recently, bosses and columnists in the capitalist media have been highly critical of the Canada Recovery Benefit (CRB, previously the Canada Emergency Response Benefit or CERB). They say it costs too much and encourages people not to work. But while they complain about the crumbs given to unemployed workers to survive, capitalists have no qualms […]

COVID-19

Indigenous children forcibly given IUDs, highlighting Canada’s history of eugenics

Marcus Katryniuk ★ Jun 4, 2021

In late May, B.C. lawyer Breen Ouellette came out with allegations of Indigenous girls being forced by social workers to receive intrauterine devices, or IUDs. According to Ouellette, children younger than 10 were not only made to get the procedure, but weren’t even given medical followup. This practice violates not only B.C. and Canadian law, […]

Indigenous struggle

Mass grave at former Kamloops residential school exposes crimes of colonization

Rob Lyon ★ Jun 3, 2021

A mass grave containing the remains of 215 children, some as young as three years of age, was discovered at the end of May on the grounds of the former Kamloops Indian Residential School in British Columbia, Canada. The grisly discovery, the result of a search organized by the Tk’emlúps te Secwépemc First Nation using […]

Indigenous struggle

Vale workers strike against benefit clawbacks

Mitchell Thompson ★ Jun 2, 2021

2,400 Vale workers are on strike at the Sudbury nickel mine, after they voted overwhelmingly to reject a contract that would have cut key health benefits for new hires. Members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 at Vale—which took over Inco in 2006 and remains Sudbury’s largest employer—rejected the company’s offer by 70 per cent on […]

Ontario

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