Alberta Health Services (AHS) has informed the United Nurses of Alberta (UNA) that it is invoking the emergency measures clause in their collective agreement to address staffing shortages. These emergency measures allow the AHS to force nurses to work mandatory overtime, impose longer working days, cancel vacations, and direct nurses to other hospitals to cover […]

The death of former Ontario premier Bill Davis was announced on Aug. 8. His death was met with a round of gushing praise from the political establishment across the board. Even many in the labour movement took the occasion to salute Davis’s “contributions.” We should, however, not be fooled: Bill Davis was no friend of […]

The past months have signified an important turning point for the Indigenous struggle in Canada. For the first time ever, public opinion lies firmly on the side of Indigenous people, and awareness of Indigenous issues have reached a record high. The constant discovery of new unmarked graves at former residential schools have prompted fury across […]

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 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 […]

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 […]