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Unblock vaccine patents now!

Editorial Back in May, with only 6 percent of his country’s population vaccinated against COVID, Bolivian Foreign Minister Rogelio Mayta appealed to the Canadian government to provide a compulsory license for the Johnson and Johnson [...]

Court ruling rings alarm for democratic constitutional change

Municipalities must be recognized and given standing When Ontario Premier Doug Ford slashed the size of Toronto City Council in half, in the middle of the 2018 municipal election campaign, it showed the extent to which capitalist governments are [...]

Bolivian labour media warns Canada will move against Nicaragua

Kawsachun News With the federal election behind, Ottawa will be pivoting towards an attack on Nicaragua and may be contemplating increasing its illegal sanctions against the Central American country. Following Washington’s directives, [...]

Insulin at 100: How Big Pharma turned Banting’s “gift to the world” into a healthcare disaster

By Sonya Stepanova This year is the 100th anniversary of the invention of insulin by Frederick Banting at the University of Toronto. The world celebrates his transformative discovery, but a closer look at the situation with insulin – both in [...]

Minority government: Working people can block austerity through mass mobilization

The unwanted election campaign called by the Liberals to secure a majority government has resulted in another Liberal minority and almost no change to the balance of forces in Parliament. Working people responded with justified anger, denying [...]

Elections Canada decision to cancel “Vote on Campus” program denounced

Program helped lead to surge in youth voting in 2015 and 2019 elections On August 25, ten days after Governor General Mary Simon approved Liberal Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s request to dissolve parliament, Elections Canada announced that it [...]

Big Business Bashing? Bring it on!

At the end of August, executives at Canada’s five biggest banks moaned publicly that the federal election had become “an attack on big business.” They pointed to Justin Trudeau’s pledge to introduce a 3 percent surtax on bank and insurance [...]

Parties’ post-secondary platforms broken down

By Samir Mechel With the 44th Canadian federal election quickly approaching on September 20, students should be aware of each federal party’s policies on post-secondary education. Many new policies have been crafted this year with [...]

Indigenous, French and English communities come together to demand new Indigenous and French universities in Sudbury

By Drew Garvie On Thursday, September 9 the Tricultural Committee for University Education at Sudbury held a press conference to release a declaration demanding a new approach to university education in Sudbury and Northern Ontario. In the wake [...]