In the lead up to Vancouver's mayoral election, the lessons of Harry Rankin offer inspiration
There could not be a more apt time in Vancouver election history to make a movie about Harry Rankin’s life...more)
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Swanson's campaign is about building a movement for the 99%
It’s that time of year in Vancouver when warm weather is here, and municipal political parties have begun to announce...more)
Emboldened by Doug Ford’s electoral victory, the 1% are coming for low-wage workers. The morning after the election the Financial...more)
The Tories are already in scandals before their first day in office
Ontario voters should be used to governments pulled down by scandals. Doug Ford’s Progressive Conservative Party are different. They aren’t...more)
Roughly two hundred supporters and volunteers gathered in a converted warehouse space in central Ottawa on election night June 7...more)
The 1% are hiding from public view to further the burning of the planet
Leaders from seven of the world’s most prosperous countries are retreating together in the idyllic town of La Malbaie, in...more)
Ford only won by appealing to anger against austerity, which can be directed at Ford's cuts
Ford proclaimed a “strong, stable majority government,” but the Ontario election results don’t represent a surge to the right. Instead...more)
Build the protest in Toronto on June 16
Doug Ford’s hard-right Tories have won a majority, receiving 40% of the popular vote. While the NDP has made significant...more)
Protest early and protest often, starting June 16
The prospect of a Tory majority is looming. The last time the Tories took power under Harris, we responded with...more)
People and the planet, or profits and climate chaos?
Trudeau’s government has committed to buying the existing Kinder Morgan pipeline and to spending whatever it costs to try to...more)
Wynne's appeal for "neither left nor right" only benefits Ford
With less than a week to go before the provincial election, Premier Kathleen Wynne conceded that 15 years of Liberal...more)
Trudeau has revealed the Canadian state's long history of support for oil extraction
Facing mounting opposition from the Indigenous-led climate justice movement, Justin Trudeau has committed to paying $4.5 billion to Kinder Morgan...more)
The victory of the movement to repeal the Irish anti-abortion amendment shows that our collective power can win against the forces of reaction
My mother left Inishmore, one of the Aran Islands off the coast of Galway, when she was five years old...more)
No party mentioned the major campaign, but all for different reasons
The legislated raise in the minimum wage has been a huge victory for workers across Ontario, but none of the...more)
The Liberals are excluding groups of workers from the gains of Bill 148, but the union leadership isn't fighting back
One of the backdrops to the election in Ontario, is the changes that were made this year to the Employment...more)
Ford tried to use his folksy populism to distract from his policies of privatization and austerity
According to Doug Ford, if we are wondering who to vote for we should just ask our boss. He made...more)
The Tories have launched a smear campaign while ignoring their own ties with the far right
As his Tories lose their early lead in the polls, Doug Ford has launched a below-the-belt attack on the surging...more)
With the NDP scaling back its election promise, it's up to the climate justice movement to stop the pipeline
The BC NDP seems determined to unravel their opposition to the Kinder Morgan pipeline bit by bit. At a media...more)
If the Liberals have $10 billion to support Kinder Morgan, why not spend it on climate jobs?
Last Wednesday Canada’s Finance Minster, Bill Morneau, reaffirmed his government’s commitment to oil company profits by promising to compensate Kinder...more)
The Cree activist challenged the government, built settler solidarity and supported traditional counselling
One of the high points of the Red Power movement was the Native People’s Caravan of 1974. Several hundred Indigenous...more)
The Association of Progressive Palestinian Canadians is calling for an arms embargo on Israel
On Saturday, May 12 hundreds gathered in Toronto for a rally for Gaza and to commemorate 70 years since the...more)
From the vault: the last time the Tories governed Ontario (reprint from June 14, 1995)
~ Originally published June 14, 1995 The day before the Ontario election, finally admitting the probability of victory for Mike...more)
From blocking the suns rays to trying to control storms, geoengineering "solutions" do nothing to stop capitalist climate change
There are full-blown climate change deniers, including Scott Pruitt, the head of the US Environmental “Protection” Agency. Then there are...more)
The two day conference in Toronto highlighted multiple struggles
“Capitalism is equal to cannibalism, I was taught,” said Indigenous leader Crystal Sinclair of Idle No More to a packed...more)
Neither Washington nor Moscow
The attempts by the Canadian government and its NATO allies to ramp up a new Cold War, casting Russia as...more)
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