During the first wave of the COVID-19 pandemic and related economic crisis, Doug Ford tried to rehabilitate his image and that of his government. Replacing the hard right figure – who had attacked broader public sector workers, teachers and [...]
Hospital workers in Alberta have been ruled back to work by a court injunction, after an impressive wildcat strike at hospitals across the province. The militant action, which began on October 26, is in response to Health Minister Tyler Shandro’s [...]
By Rolando Pérez Betancourt They denied it for many years, but the weight of reality ended up tipping the balance. Disney has finally acknowledged on its gigantic streaming platform that there are racist stereotypes and other offensive material [...]
By Alex Geddie In some ways, the spring lockdown associated with the COVID-19 pandemic came as a boon to the Canadian state, which, over the winter of 2019-2020, saw a series of increasingly successful examples of resistance to its colonial [...]
PV Vancouver Bureau After a short BC election campaign ended on October 24, John Horgan's NDP is ready to form a strong majority government in the next legislature. The right-wing corporate Liberals under Andrew Wilkinson suffered a major [...]
By Alykhan Pabani I care deeply about my neighbours and try in earnest to support the struggles of those less privileged than me. When the pandemic hit, the nature of these struggles became even more acute and as a result, an ad-hoc group of [...]
By Dean Dettloff “The marketplace, by itself, cannot resolve every problem, however much we are asked to believe this dogma of neoliberal faith. Whatever the challenge, this impoverished and repetitive school of thought always offers the same [...]
The Communist Party of Quebec (PCQ, national section of the Communist Party of Canada) issued a statement on October 3 condemning the systemic racism surrounding the tragic death of Joyce Echaquan. The 37-year-old Attikamekw woman and mother of [...]
By B A Ford On Sunday 4th October, Kanaky (New Caledonia) held a second referendum to decide on its independence from France. 180,000 people voted on the question with an 80 percent turnout and a 56.67 percent majority voting to reject [...]
Tens of thousands of people marched in Athens on October 7, circling the massive court complex where the verdict was announced against Golden Dawn. The fascist party was found guilty of running a criminal organization under the front of a political [...]
