Through 2020, workers faced job cuts, pay cuts and the disastrous effects of decades of health and education cuts—all while business executive pay rose nearly 20 per cent at some of Canada’s largest companies. The executive ‘salary cuts’ that weren’t  A Canadian Centre For Policy Alternatives study of 1,096 executives finds top businesses—making up nearly […]

Epidemiologist Dr. David Fisman resigned publicly from Ontario’s COVID-19 Science Advisory Table on Aug. 20, warning the Ford government is failing to release infection modelling data that “projects a grim fall”—as schools reopen. According to Fisman, the scientists tasked with informing Ontario’s COVID-19 response have faced repeated problems of interference, including delayed data releases. He […]

A new poll released in August by the Broadbent Institute shows a leftward shift in public opinion coming out of the financial hardship and dislocation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The poll found that 89 per cent of Canadians support a wealth tax to pay for social services and the recovery from the pandemic, up […]

On Aug. 1, Unifor Local 112 went on strike against De Havilland Aircraft of Canada (DHC) who are dead set on laying off workers and relocating production outside of Ontario. Scabs have been flown in and the workers are rightfully using militant tactics to stop production. Facing off against Canada’s wealthiest corporate owners, and now […]

At the end of the First World War, Group of Seven founding member and official Canadian war artist Frederick Varley completed his painting For What? The evocative title of Varley’s work, which depicted gravediggers and a cart heaped with corpses amidst a war-ravaged wasteland, conveyed for many Canadians the pointlessness of that bloody imperialist war […]

The Hamilton police, media, and mayor are out for blood after the Indigenous Unity Rally brought down the John A. MacDonald statue in Gore Park on Aug. 14. In July, Hamilton City Council voted against removing the statue and instead vowed to undertake a review of Hamilton’s landmarks to “honour the indigenous community and the […]

The Legault government recently announced the implementation of a vaccine passport. As of September 1, throughout Quebec, this passport will be required for access to places considered non-essential or high-traffic, such as restaurants, bars, or theaters. A week later, Legault announced that he would impose mandatory vaccination on health care workers who come into contact […]

Tent cities are popping up in cities all across Canada as a result of rising homelessness and inadequate supports. In 2016 approximately 235,000 people in Canada experienced homelessness, with 35,000 without permanent shelter on any given night. Advocates for the homeless would say the total number is much higher than the official figure, since many […]

America’s longest war has ended in abject shame and humiliation for US imperialism. Twenty years after the invasion of Afghanistan, the most powerful military force the world has ever known has been dealt total defeat at the hands of a band of primitive religious zealots. The fall of Kabul marked the end of a seven-day […]

In a cynical move, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has sent Canada into a pandemic election. The Liberals say that this is to give them a mandate for the post-pandemic recovery. But the reality is that the only reason they have dissolved their minority government is to gain a majority. They don’t want this majority in […]