Near the beginning of the pandemic, the Canadian economy — and the workers on which it depends — experienced a quiet crisis. For decades, mountains…
Ontario’s three temporary paid sick days are running out at the end of the year. Bill 8 would ensure workers would have access to 10 permanent paid sick days.
We can’t afford to wait on the empty promises made at COP26. We need mass movements to fight for and support Indigenous sovereignty. And we need to build a reinvigorated working class movement to fight for climate solutions that put people before profits.
Only by making childcare a public good can we ensure women’s ability to equally participate in public life, give every child the right to access…
Since the start of the strike by 22,000 public sector workers in New Brunswick, on October 29, there have been picket lines in almost every…
The winning of a $15 minimum wage is the product of years of organizing. This shows how we can win reforms by campaigning, even under right wing governments. But we will need to redouble our organizing efforts to win the stronger employment standards and higher wages that Ontario workers desperately need in our post-pandemic world.
Almost a century ago, Canadian socialists advanced a vision for cities built in the interest of people, not profit, that included gorgeous public housing. We should look to their ideas to learn how we can revitalize public life.
The Liberals were re-elected on this promise, and this can’t wait. Justin Trudeau needs to translate words into action: immediately mandate 10 paid sick days for federally regulated workers, and convene the provinces and territories to develop a national action plan for similar legislation across the country. And provincial governments, from BC and Ontario to the rest of provinces and territories, need to follow.
A moralistic approach to social transformation is not only incapable of building the power to win, it can unconsciously reproduce a ruling class perspective about social change. We need ideas that can help us understand our world in order to transform it.
While calls to defund police have spread across Canada, police budgets have actually been growing, often substantially. Police have deployed a range of fear campaigns…
The Palestinian National Authority was born out of a political marriage between the failed Palestinian leadership’s state-building path and Israel’s imperialist-colonial agenda overseen by the United States. The Palestinian Authority has increasingly become a barrier to Palestinian national liberation.
The Pandora Papers shine a light on the international networks used by corporations and the global elite to avoid taxes and accrue their wealth. These…
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