PV Alberta Bureau To market its new budget, released on February 25, Alberta’s United Conservative government chose the image of a family flying down a hill on a toboggan. It’s an eerily appropriate choice – with its massive drop in healthcare [...]
Canadian media and politicians claim that this country’s public healthcare system is “what separates us from the Americans.” Social democrats have baptized Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF)/ New Democratic Party (NDP) leader Tommy Douglas as [...]
Around the world, as the contradictions of capitalism sharpen, people are becoming more critical of a system that doesn’t provide their needs and which shifts more and more wealth and power into the coffers and board rooms of a tiny few. But [...]
PV Vancouver Bureau The struggle by hotel workers in the Vancouver region for job security and decent income is heating up as the pandemic continues to hit the tourism sector. On February 19, workers at the Hilton Vancouver Metrotown Hotel in [...]
Janice Folk-Dawson is Vice President of the Ontario Federation of Labour (OFL), former president of the Guelph and District Labour Council and former president of Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) Local 1334. People's Voice contributor and [...]
In 1917, International Women’s Day in Russia helped to launch the Russian Revolution, which ended up inspiring working people around the world. This included many working women in Canada, several of whom helped found and build the Communist Party of [...]
COVID-19 has stripped away the veneer of capitalism, leaving bare the stark inequalities based on gender, racialization and ability. According to the United Nations, women are the majority of workers in sectors of the economy most severely impacted [...]
By Corinne Benson Jason Kenney’s government has been dancing all over on coal policy. First, they talk to Australian coal mining companies before letting Albertans know they are planning to rescind the 1976 coal policy and allow mountaintop [...]
By Greg Godels Biden’s first week or so in office proved eventful. He began to aggressively undo much of what Trump undid of the Obama presidency. In essence, he is returning US politics to 2016. For those who longed only for the exit of Trump [...]
Recovery: Peace prospects in the Biden era (2020) Author: Douglas Roche Publisher: Khalid Yaqub Reviewed by Ed Lehman Douglas Roche’s latest book contains a lot of valuable information and could be an important stimulus to [...]
