Op-ed
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May 5, 2025 
Ford’s government is underfunding education
In a story that is all too common across the province, parents and teachers from the Toronto District School Board calling into the CBC Radio’s…
Articles
News
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May 2, 2025
LifeLabs workers on strike to keep healthcare public
For the past ten weeks, 1200 workers at LifeLabs in BC have been on a rotating strike for better wages and working conditions. The workers…
Feature
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May 1, 2025
Undercurrents of reaction: Carney wins, Cons surge, NDP crashes
While some breathe a sigh of relief at avoiding a Poilievre government, the winnowing of the political contest into a two-corporate-party race across much of Canada contains many troubling undercurrents for the left.
Analysis
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April 28, 2025
The Pahalgam Assault and the struggle for Kashmiri freedom
On April 22, 2025, an assault occurred in Baisaran Valley, near Pahalgam, Indian-administered Kashmir. Armed assailants fired on tourists, resulting in 26 deaths and over…
Interview
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April 23, 2025
“A lot of things that used to matter to me don’t matter to me anymore”: An interview with Omar El Akkad
Omar El Akkad, the Canadian-American journalist and award-winning author of “What Strange Paradise” and “American War,” makes his non-fiction debut with “One Day Everyone Will…
Op-ed
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April 22, 2025
Stop the cuts at Saint Mary’s University
I have been teaching at Saint Mary’s University as a part-time instructor for nearly a year and a half now. Despite this part-time status, my…
Op-ed
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April 17, 2025
Will Trump’s tariffs be good for auto workers?
This article was first published by Labor Notes. It is reprinted with permission. During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I…
Op-ed
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April 14, 2025
Library workers for supervised consumption sites
In December of 2024, the Ford government announced amendments to The Community Care and Recovery Act that would close supervised consumption sites (SCS) within 200…
Analysis
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April 11, 2025
Leveraging the election to build workers’ power
Just two months ago, the federal Conservatives were sailing towards an easy election. The Liberals were crumbling under Justin Trudeau, and Poilievre’s victory seemed so…
Analysis
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April 10, 2025
Trump’s tariffs and ‘delinking’ from the US
The Trump-initiated trade war will have a major impact on all our lives. The US turn to protectionism means great instability and uncertainty in a…
Analysis
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April 7, 2025
France: Le Pen’s sentencing on corruption charges and the fight against fascism
Antifascists in France have had good news. At the end of a two-month trial, far‑right leader Marine Le Pen has been found guilty of embezzling…
Review
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April 4, 2025
Omar El Akkad’s indictment of Western liberal hypocrisy and complicity in genocide
Omar El Akkad’s latest book, One Day, Everyone Will Always Have Been Against This, articulates the emptiness, anguish, and contradictions many of us have experienced while witnessing our governments’ complicity and even justification for the genocide in Gaza. The liberal establishment’s silence and inaction is appalling, but as El Akkad argues, it is not out of character.
