Core Development Group, a Toronto-based real estate company, announced in June that it plans to buy $1 billion in single-family homes over the next five years and turn them into rentals. This move, while touted as a way to increase rental stock, is likely to add even more fuel to the long-standing housing affordability crisis […]

Newly-unearthed documents confirm past Pride Toronto executives discussed a $250,000 federal grant to partner with Toronto police and whitewash the history of anti-LGBT abuse by Toronto police.

On June 12, Fightback organizers joined striking Wine Rack workers for a solidarity rally outside a Wine Rack in downtown Toronto on Wellesley Street East. Dozens of workers held down the picket lines, supported by a crowd that included representatives of labour and socialist organizations. Energy was palpable among the workers, who displayed their determination […]

After several days of contentious negotiation, the management of Black Creek Community Health Centre in Toronto abandoned efforts to reach an agreement with its unionized workers late in the night on June 12. With no options left, and an offer to extend the strike deadline rebuffed by the employer, Ontario Public Service Employees Union (OPSEU) […]

At the end of May, the bodies of 215 Indigenous children were found buried in unmarked graves underneath the Kamloops Indian Residential School on the Tk’emlups te’ Secwepemc First Nation in BC. This discovery has reignited feelings of anger amongst Indigenous people, as well as wide layers of workers and students throughout Canada and has […]

2,400 Vale workers are on strike at the Sudbury nickel mine, after they voted overwhelmingly to reject a contract that would have cut key health benefits for new hires. Members of United Steelworkers Local 6500 at Vale—which took over Inco in 2006 and remains Sudbury’s largest employer—rejected the company’s offer by 70 per cent on […]

On Wednesday, May 19, Skyler Williams, spokesperson for 1492 Land Back Lane, turned himself into police after 10 months with warrants hanging over his head by the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP). The 37 year-old Haudonesonee land defender walked into the Haldimand County OPP station to be booked and was released after a short while. A […]

Health workers at Sarnia’s Victorian Order of Nurses (VON) stopped work on May 1, taking action against a wage freeze by the Ford government, and against an employer who refuses them paid sick leave and decent pay for their dangerous work. The 23 Registered Practical Nurses (RPNs), who work with high needs patients, have been […]

470 Nestlé workers are on strike in Toronto, as the company continues to demand a large segment of Unifor 252 members accept lower pay, precarious work, and fewer benefits, without end. The 470 workers at Nestlé’s plant near Lansdowne Station—which manufactures KitKat, Aero, Coffee Crisp and Smarties chocolates—began picketing May 1. The union says talks […]

On Feb. 1, students and faculty at Laurentian University were sent an email by university administration stating that the school had just been forced to declare insolvency—a first for a public sector university in Canada. Despite initially being told that students needn’t worry about being able to complete their degrees as expected, the university has […]