The challenge to the trade union movement, in the aftermath of the OFL convention, will be to recover the sense of unity that filled the room at the start.
The Communist Party of Canada has welcomed a court ruling which nullifies the requirement that candidates pay a $1000 financial deposit to run in federal elections.
The two richest Canadians, billionaire business owners David Thomson and Galen Weston Sr, have the same amount of wealth as the poorest 30 percent of the country combined.
There's an important growth in militancy and political radicalism for Ontario labour. But is this growth emanating from the OFL's leadership, or in spite of it? Sadly, the answer seems to be the latter.
