In the midst of unprecedented COVID-19 cases, hospitals across Canada face shortages of beds, supplies, administrative staff, doctors, and especially nurses to handle the surge in patients. Hospitals were already overburdened before the COVID-19 pandemic and throughout the first four waves, but the record-setting spread of the Omicron variant has pushed Canada’s health-care system to […]

The “Freedom Convoy” has claimed its first political casualty. Led by its socially conservative right wing, the Conservative parliamentary caucus voted to remove Erin O’Toole as leader of the federal party on Feb. 2. O’Toole’s refusal to support the blockade in Ottawa unreservedly was the final straw for the right wing of the Conservatives, which […]

With the “Freedom Convoy” occupation of Ottawa into its second week, Feb. 5 saw sympathy convoys hit several other cities across Canada. At the same time, opposition to the right-wing thuggery seen at the convoys is building up, and working class Canadians are starting to push back with counter-demonstrations.  Fightback was present at three of […]

The so-called Freedom Convoy has dominated headlines for the past few weeks and has been blockading the downtown core around Parliament Hill in Ottawa for a week. While the numbers in the blockade have thinned, there are no signs that they intend to leave anytime soon and many have vowed to stay until their demands […]

On Friday, Feb. 3rd, 87 people attended a private Zoom meeting entitled “Ottawa community townhall and response to convoy”, started by a Public Service Alliance of Canada (PSAC) Ottawa local executive. Despite the meeting not being made public, 87 people attended through various invites. Several left-wing, labour organizations and individuals attended, including Ottawa Centre NDP […]

A poll commissioned by Canada’s largest spy agency found most Canadians oppose expanding its surveillance powers—after years of scandal. According to The Globe and Mail, the Canadian Security Intelligence Service (CSIS) hired EKOS to survey the public’s attitude towards surveillance for a March 2021 poll.  The pollsters asked more than 1,000 people if they thought […]

As of Saturday, Jan. 29 transit operators with Unifor Local 114 have been on strike in British Columbia’s Sea to Sky region, which includes the communities of Whistler, Squamish, and Pemberton Valley. The strike notice went out on Jan. 21, with 80 workers taking job action as of 5 a.m. Saturday. Unifor has said that […]

On Jan. 14, the McGill University administration announced that the majority of in-person classes and teaching activities would resume starting Jan. 24. The decision to return to in-person learning came as the Omicron variant was tearing through the province and the Montreal area health-care system was reporting the highest possible alert level, as record numbers […]

Many were shocked to hear that a migrant family was found frozen to death in a field in Manitoba. This family, including a baby and an 11-year-old girl, were trying to cross into the United States on Jan. 19. However, this is not at all surprising and is only the latest in a long list […]

Cineplex is Canada’s largest movie theatre chain and has a virtual monopoly in the country. The first lockdown of the COVID-19 pandemic forced the closure of its 164 theatres, meaning most of its 13,000 employees were laid off. Cineplex then received more than $60 million from the Canada Emergency Wage Subsidy (CEWS) in the first […]