By David Gehl According to a recently released report from the Canola Council of Canada, worsened relations with China since the December 2018 arrest of Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou have cost prairie farmers a billion or more dollars. During the [...]
A recent poll by Nanos Research indicates that nuclear weapons are a far greater concern for people in Canada than government actions would suggest. Specifically, there is a groundswell of support for disarmament, including through divestment in [...]
BC budget commentary by the Communist Party of BC In last October's election, John Horgan's NDP appealed for the votes of left-minded British Columbians. Without being shackled to their alliance with the Greens, went the argument, an NDP [...]
By Omar Latif It is clear, to many at least, that Western governments and the corporate-owned mass media lie when it suits them. The 1965 Gulf of Tonkin Incident in which the North Vietnamese fired on US vessels, Iraq’s weapons of mass [...]
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 [...]
COVID-19 is producing a bumper crop of cash for Big Pharma. Among the worst profiteers is Pfizer, which the Canadian government has contracted to provide up to 76 million vaccine doses to fight the pandemic. In the deal, Pfizer stands to make a cool [...]
Dave McKee Marxists have long understood the link between capitalist expansion and environmental degradation. As Frederick Engels wrote in 1876, “What cared the Spanish planters in Cuba, who burned down forests on the slopes of the mountains and [...]
Far from transformative, the April 19 federal budget was yet another long list of big gifts to Big Business in Canada, along with vast sums for NATO, NORAD, fighter jets and warships, ensuring that the working class will pay for a profitable [...]
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 [...]
Starting in January 2021, Cuba began to implement broad economic reforms designed to increase production and exports, in an effort to mitigate the effects of the US blockade and the coronavirus pandemic. The following article, republished from the [...]
