In September of 2011, the former McMaster President published a letter to the entire McMaster community on integrity. In it, integrity was identified as necessary…
The pro-Israel lobby has done it again. It has seized upon a public speech that criticizes Israel, and brutally attacked the author with a false…
McPherson’s position on Ukraine and dalliance with Irwin Cotler highlight how little difference there is between the parties on foreign policy. Canada’s political and media elites all agree that we are a great moral force that should dictate to the rest of the world. And damn all evidence to the contrary.
While the CPPIB claims to be dedicated to the best interests of CPPIB contributors and beneficiaries, it would seem based on the recent meeting that the CPPIB is extremely disconnected from the public and operates as a professional investment organization with a commercial, investment-only mandate that fuels war and climate change.
When Premier Ford denies workers paid sick days, he is leaving my community and me behind. Paid sick days are a fundamental right. I need this protection. I am calling on the government to legislate ten permanent paid sick days.
Almost everyone says they oppose war in principle, but few are willing to face the opprobrium that comes with confronting militarist nationalism. A week ago…
Nova Scotia’s Residential Tenancies Act protects the interests of landlords while leaving tenants with few protections.
An important, if rarely mentioned, rule of Canadian foreign policy is the more impoverished a nation, the greater the gap is likely to be between…
Nova Scotia’s politicians will pat themselves on the back for raising ECE’s wages, but the below inflation increases still leaves ECEs earning poverty wages. Parents and child care workers know that paying the frontline staff low wages will prevent our communities from having the universal, public, affordable child care system we all deserve.
Federal NDP leader Jagmeet Singh is right when he states, “We believe Israel’s illegal occupation of the Palestinian territories is at the centre of the challenges facing the Palestinian and Israeli people.” In response the pro-Israel lobby has smeared him with accusations of anti-Semitism. We need to support Singh’s position on Palestine but also to tell him the NDP needs to withdraw from the Canada-Israel Interparliamentary Group.
With a strike deadline possibly weeks away, it’s crucial to use every moment between now and then to build broad public support for Ontario’s education workers. If education workers win, we all win, and every other fight with the Ford government will be stronger for it.
The choice is breathtakingly clear in the upcoming elections in the second largest democracy in the Americas: democracy or neofascism.
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