Labour-community solidarity |

Metro Days of Action – 25 years on and still lessons to heed

By Dave McKee Friday, October 25, 1996. I got up very early – around 4 in the morning – and called a cab because Toronto’s transit system was down. As I made my way through the city’s east end, it was hard to not get excited by the streets whose [...]

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 [...]

#Elxn44: Don’t be fooled by O’Toole… and prepare for a fightback!

As of press time, past the halfway point in the federal election campaign, the Conservatives have surged to hold a slim, but definite lead over the lagging Liberals. This raises the very real possibility of an Erin O’Toole victory. For Communist [...]

“The Big Reset”: Newfoundland and Labrador braces for austerity, fightback

The long-awaited report of the Provincial Economic Recovery Team (PERT) was publicly released on May 6, just weeks before Newfoundland and Labrador’s Liberal government revealed its budget for 2021. The PERT, chaired by Dame Moya Greene, was widely [...]

Labour and student unity needed to stop the destruction at Laurentian University and across Canada

April 12 is being called “Black Monday” by residents of Sudbury, Ontario. That was the day that Laurentian University publicized plans to cut 69 programs and issue mass layoffs which will impact at least 150 faculty and staff. Eight hundred students [...]

CPC centenary: Communists, the Workers’ Unity League and Annie Buller

Working people suffered terribly during the Great Depression of the 1930s. Factories closed, mass unemployment swept the country, farmers were evicted, and poverty became widespread. When right-wing labour leaders gave up on fighting for their [...]

The working class and the coming federal election

In the wake of the Liberal government's April 19 budget, people across the country are preparing for a possible federal election call. It may be one of the most critical elections in recent memory, charting either a people’s or a corporate course [...]

Alberta budget a downhill ride for working people

PV Alberta Bureau To market its new budget, released on February 25, Alberta’s United Conservative government chose the image of a family flying down a hill on a toboggan. It’s an eerily appropriate choice – with its massive drop in healthcare [...]

Women need to lead the way and labour needs to act!

Janice Folk-Dawson is Vice President of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), former president of the Guelph and District Labour Council and former president of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1334. People's Voice contributor and [...]

New Brunswick campaign for long-term care reform gathers steam

When New Brunswick’s Conservative Party won a majority in the recent snap election, it expected a clear path to deep austerity and sweeping privatization. But the province’s labour and community movements are quickly mobilizing a campaign to defend [...]