November and December mark important dates in the fight for gender equity. The 16 Days of Activism against Gender-Based Violence is an annual international campaign held between November 25 – The International Day for the Elimination of Violence [...]
5 key ingredients to a stronger labour movement In 2017, the OFL Convention projected a general tone of comradery and unity, an image that suggested many of the crises plaguing the movement through previous years had been resolved. Two large [...]
In September, Canadian Labour Congress Vice President Donald Lafleur attended the Third International Trade Union Forum in Solidarity with Syrian Workers, in Damascus. While there, he criticized the sanctions that the United States and its NATO [...]
From the depths of the attic room where it was hidden from public view during the federal election campaign, Doug Ford’s Conservative government appears to have been backing away from much of its aggressive neoliberal austerity agenda. Last year, [...]
Now that the votes are all counted, it’s clear that once again a majority of electors voted defensively, using their ballots to stave off a Big Business majority government. Given the hard drive to the right by the Tories and the Peoples Party, a [...]
It is a uniquely Canadian tradition that a finance minister wears a new pair of shoes when delivering a budget. While the origins of the tradition are unclear, several politicians have played with it to make a political point: Jim Flaherty resoled [...]
Think of academic work and you probably have an image of a professor, snuggled in a cardigan in a charmingly cluttered office enjoying a glass of brandy while pontificating through a well-paid tenured position and into a lucrative pension. Think [...]
During my second year of university, I was exposed for the first time to mass, extra-parliamentary political campaigning. It was the fall of 1988, and the “Free Trade Election” was on. Of course, the main electoral contenders had lots to say [...]
Working class Manitobans are in for the fight of their lives, against 4 more years of neoliberal austerity from Brian Pallister’s Conservatives. Fresh from winning a majority in the provincial election, Pallister announced on September 18 his [...]
One hundred trade union delegations from around the world gathered in Damascus on September 8-9, for the Third International Trade Union Forum in Solidarity with Syrian Workers. The purpose of the meeting was to build opposition to imperialist [...]
