Mauritanian workers strike Kinross Tasiast mine On May 6, Toronto-based Kinross Gold Corporation released its financial statements for the first quarter of 2020. The huge multinational reported quarterly cash balance of over US$1.1 billion and a [...]
It’s one of the most famous images from World War II – perhaps of the entire 20th century. Yevgeny Khaldei’s photograph of soldiers from the Soviet Red Army, raising the red banner over the fallen Nazi Reichstag on May 9, 1945, is the unquestioned [...]
When is science not actually scientific? One answer is that research which cherry-picks and manipulates facts to support a preconceived hypothesis is not truly scientific. Long after Galileo and Copernicus demolished the Ptolemaic theory, some [...]
So far during the COVID-19 pandemic, I'm one of the relatively fortunate ones. My family lives in an affordable and well-run housing co-op with an amazing view of the mountains from our roof deck. My office is just a few blocks from home. I have [...]
By Helen Kennedy and Juanita Burnett At a long-term care facility in rural Ontario, we chatted with a Personal Support Worker about the impact of the coronavirus on the residents and workers. This home is chronically understaffed. With 65 [...]
PV Ontario Bureau The pandemic currently gripping the world has exposed the precarious conditions in long-term care (LTC) homes in Ontario. Seventy-five percent of the deaths from coronavirus have been seniors who live in these homes. Out of a [...]
"Our victory stems from our daily activism" France has a long tradition of electing communists locally. As Georges Marchais noted in his 1980 book L’espoir au present (Hope in the Present), “The French Communist Party has 28,000 elected [...]
There’s a story about labour leaders from the AFL-CIO in the United States meeting with their counterparts from COSATU in South Africa. During their discussion, the question arose as to what the key job of trade unions is. The American delegates [...]
Michael Moore is an amazing documentary filmmaker whose work, such as Bowling for Columbine (2002) and Fahrenheit 9/11 (2004), has inspired viewers around the world. His first celebrated documentary was Roger and Me, released in 1989 and celebrated [...]
The following letter was issued on April 13 by the Hamilton Coalition To Stop The War and the Mouvement Québécois pour la paix/Quebec Movement for Peace. The letter's 100 signatories ask the Prime Minister to suspend Canada’s economic sanctions [...]
