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Stop Irving Oil’s “pandemic profiteering”

Editorial The richest family in New Brunswick just doesn’t feel quite rich enough. And it is prepared to hold the province’s most vulnerable people hostage as it pressures the government to guarantee higher “pandemic profits.” The Irving Oil [...]

Defund Winnipeg police to fund social and community needs

By Cam Scott As the Executive Policy Committee of Winnipeg’s City Council rushes to pass its 2021 budget, it’s hard not to see this document as a direct rebuke to community health and a show of deadly complacency against a growing social [...]

Tim Buck reflects on the backdrop to founding a revolutionary party

By Tim Buck The rise and growth of capitalist industry in Canada was “welcomed even by those who came off worst from its corresponding mode of distribution.” Exploitation was intense. We laboured ten hours per day. Only a very small percentage [...]

2020 had some important steps forward – we can turn them into big strides in 2021

If you’re like us, you were pretty happy to see the arse end of 2020. The pandemic meant that the better part of 10 months was spent in some form of lockdown-distancing isolation and the accompanying economic crisis threw millions of people in this [...]

BC Communists hold online convention

PV Vancouver Bureau With only a few technical glitches, the 43rd British Columbia provincial convention of the Communist Party of Canada took place over the November 21-22 weekend. The convention was held online through Zoom, due to the limits [...]

Alberta’s open-pit coal mining plan must be stopped!

By Corinne Benson Spread your legs Alberta. Australian mining corporations are already preparing to open-pit mine in the Bighorn area of the Rocky Mountains. Since 1976 the Coal Development Policy has guided land use over many aspects of coal [...]

Ontario Tories gift corporations with nearly $1b in tax cuts – paid for by public sector wage restraint

The Ontario Tories have more than doubled the exemption from the Employer Health Tax (EHT) announced in the Ontario budget (and included in the budget bill), increasing it from $490,000 in payroll to $1 million. Currently, employers with payrolls [...]

Why labour should demand Meng Wanzhou’s release

On December 1, peace and solidarity activists across the country are organizing the December 1 Cross-Canada Day of Action to Free Meng Wanzhou. Actions are planned in several cities, marking the second anniversary of Meng’s arrest by the RCMP on a [...]

Strong movement needed to confront the looming threat of austerity and privatization in Newfoundland and Labrador

Newfoundland and Labrador’s new premier, Andrew Furley, entered the provincial legislature in October, after winning a byelection in the riding of Humber-Gros Morne which had been left vacant by previous Liberal leader Dwight Ball. Ball is [...]

Canada-led regime change: the Lima Group under the microscope

By Steve Lalla The Lima Group is a Canada-led organization dedicated to the ouster of Venezuelan President Nicolás Maduro. In January 2019, National Assembly member Juan Guaidó tried to declare himself president of Venezuela, and Lima Group [...]