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The NDP and the Right to Strike
Ontario Premier Doug Ford recently found himself in hot water for removing the right to strike from educational workers, imposing terms and conditions of employment on them, and using the...
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5 Things Canada Could Defund to Pay for an Epic Just Transition
These days, anyone proposing ambitious new social programs—not to mention a generation-defining agenda like the Green New Deal—is bound to be met with a particular refrain of concern-trolling: “but how...
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Climate Coalition Targets Big Banks and Insurance Giants With New Shareholder...
A coalition of more than 240 advocacy groups on Wednesday launched a “Shareholder Showdown” campaign in support of shareholder resolutions urging climate action and respect for Indigenous rights at...
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Understanding The Logic of Canada Giving $2.26 Billion in Arms to Ukraine
Over the past year Ottawa has given Ukraine over $2 billion in weapons. The size of the arms donation is unprecedented in Canadian history. According to a February 17 Le Devoir calculation, Canada has...
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How Canadians Lost Medicare
Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector....
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‘Speechless’: US, Canada Agree on Plan to Turn Away Asylum-Seekers
In a move that critics say will push people to attempt more dangerous border crossings, the United States and Canada on Friday are expected to announce an agreement allowing both countries to block...
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Canadian Left Sinks To a New Low During Biden Visit
What a state we’re in! The lowest point of the left since the 1950s. The Joe Biden visit proves it. Green Party leader Elizabeth May gave the US president chocolate. NDP leader Jagmeet Singh and MP...
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Canadian Unions and the State: Losing Ground, Moving On
There have now been four editions of From Consent to Coercion: The Continuing Assault on Labour (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2023), the first dating back to 1985, and it still must be...
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The Ugly Truth Behind Canada’s Cheery Claims of Climate Progress
When Liberal Minister of Environment and Climate Change Steven Guilbeault released Canada’s latest inventory of greenhouse gas emissions Friday, he made it seem a good news story, and that’s how most...
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Canada’s Largest-Ever Strike Against a Sole Employer Is Underway
Canada is in the midst of the largest strike against a single employer in the country’s history. On April 19, 155,000 public sector workers — who have been without a contract for more than two years —...
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How Finland Virtually Ended Homelessness—and We Can Too
Determined to pack more homeless people into Toronto’s overcrowded shelters, officials have come up with a solution: reduce the number of inches between beds. There’s a certain logic to this and it may...
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Legalized Immorality: The Scapegoating Of Hassan Diab
The fate of Dr. Hassan Diab is being determined by scapegoating and by an absolutist moral belief that law is engraved in stone. This undeveloped form of morality reduces justice to rules in which the...
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Toronto Tenants Are Uniting in a Mass Rent Strike
Tenants throughout Toronto are currently leading a rent strike against some of the country’s largest corporate landlords in one of the world’s least affordable cities. The long overdue rent strike...
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Wildfires Threaten Indigenous Communities
Canada is burning and First Nations and Indigenous communities in the north are on the front line. It has made the air unbreathable across vast portions of North America. The unprecedented...
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Canada’s Labor Movement Faces an Uphill Climb
From May 8-12, the 30th Constitutional Convention of the Canadian Labour Congress took place in Montréal. Reporting for Working People and The Real News Network, Max attended the convention and spoke...
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Canadian Foreign Policy Critics Don’t Do It For Dough
Investigating the political economy of ideas is imperative to understanding foreign policy. But those seeking to discredit already marginalized critical perspectives shouldn’t ignore Canada’s large,...
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After More Than Two Years, Canada’s Longest Ongoing Strike Is Still Going Strong
Since March 2020, over 140 workers at the Pacific Gateway Hotel — recently rebranded as a Radisson Blu — have been laid off, only to be subsequently fired. The firings disproportionately impacted...
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Tenants Confront the Housing Crisis
Nothing illustrates the post-pandemic austerity more clearly than the sharp inflation in housing costs as reflected in the escalating rates of mortgage interest[1] and residential rents. Most immediate...
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The Creeping Pervasiveness of Precarious Employment Is No Accident
In Gigs, Hustles, & Temps, Jason Foster, the director of Alberta’s Parkland Institute, sheds light on the significant increase in precarious or “informal” work among Canadian workers. The book...
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The ‘Disinformation’ Craze Is Ruining What’s Left Of Journalism
Journalism in Canada has suffered countless setbacks over the past decade. Postmedia has tightened its grip on the industry, scooping up publications and chains, imposing its toxic ideology on them,...
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