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, by HEATHCOTE Gary
Privatization of health care in New Brunswick, “creeping” insidiously in 2016, reached full “gallop” by 2022. And the pace continues to increase. This trend is well documented by a New Brunswick Health Coalition (NBHC) report and more recent sources cited below.
Coverage of the mounting (…)
, by RENAUD Benoit, Tempest
Québec public sector unionist Benoit Renaud submitted an initial report on the Québec public sector strikes in January of 2024. Several months later, he sat down with Tempest to reflect on the strike’s victories and impact. What follows is the initial report and a transcript of the post-strike (…)
, by SCHALK Owen
The motion may yet help to change the political status quo on Israel—but it will also be remembered as a missed opportunity
On March 18, the House of Commons passed an opposition day motion put forward by Heather McPherson, the NDP’s foreign affairs critic, and endorsed by NDP leader Jagmeet (…)
, par The New Arab
Canada has halted all arms shipments to Israel amid mounting international scrutiny over its war on Gaza, which has killed over 31,900 people.
Canada will halt all arms shipments to Israel, Foreign Minister Melanie Joly’s office confirmed on Wednesday, a decision that has drawn the ire of (…)
, by FIDLER Richard, POPINOT Camille
Last August, I published a critique of left responses in Canadian Left Responses to War in Ukraine – a Provisional Balance Sheet. I noted that progressive opinion in support of Ukraine’s defense of its territorial sovereignty and national self-determination tended to be stronger in Quebec than (…)
, by TAYLOR Matthew
Call for companies to ‘clean up their mess’ as Athabasca oil sands emissions vastly exceed industry-reported levels
The Canadian tar sands are a massive site of oil extraction in Alberta. Photograph: Ashley Cooper/Alamy
Toxic emissions from the Canadian tar sands – already one of the (…)
, by BONHOMME Marc
Will their determination defeat the CAQ and the bureaucratic union caste?
From December 11 to 14, all public sector workers, except for a few civil servants, will be on strike: the 420,000 of the Common Front, the 80,000 of the Fédération interprofessionnelle de la santé (FIQ), i.e. most (…)
Chinese queer/feminists in solidarity with Palestine
Chinese Feminism Toronto stands firm in our support of the Palestinian people’s fight for liberation and decolonization, and their right to resist settler colonialism and white supremacy.
We join forces with our partners and allies in (…)
, by REBICK Judy
The violence in the Middle East is being met with a global reaction calling for a ceasefire. Protesters also voice opposition to antisemitism and Islamophobia.
The world has turned upside down in the last month. I don’t know about you, but I have been sad, angry, inspired, and terrified at (…)
, by RENAUD Benoit
Benoit Renaud looks at some of the dynamics and challenges surrounding a likely public sector strike in Québec.
Over the next few months, there probably will be a major confrontation between the Québec government and public sector unions, the likes of which we have not seen since at least (…)
, by WEINBERG Paul
There is a hostility towards those who speak of Palestinian rights in Canada.
The horrendous killings and taking of hostages of hundreds of Israeli civilians by Hamas fighters in the Gaza Strip is generating a lot of sympathy and concern across political spectrum in Canada and that makes (…)
, by RAO Nagesh
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has accused agents of the Indian state with the assassination, in British Columbia, of Canadian Sikh community leader and activist Hardeep Singh Nijjar. Nagesh Rao locates this extrajudicial killing within both the politics of Narendra Modi’s India and the (…)
, par BANO Saira
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegations that India was involved in the murder of a Canadian citizen complicates efforts by Canada and its allies to woo India to counter-balance Chinese might.
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s allegation that the Indian government was involved in the (…)
, by FIDLER Richard
February 24, 2022 marked the opening of a new phase in the developing reconfiguration of global capitalist and popular forces. Russia’s massive invasion of Ukraine, the prompt mobilization of resistance by Ukrainians, and the quick shift toward public support for NATO in much of Europe, (…)
, by WONG Vincent
Hong Kong diaspora organizing has never been about ’single issues’
On the night of June 26th, Olivia Chow was elected mayor of Toronto, the first non-white mayor to ever win that office in 189 years. Her win was significant in many ways. It signaled a much needed pivot from years of (…)
, by FRAPPIER André, RIOUX Bernard
A leading Québécois activist and editor, Bernard Rioux was interviewed by André Frappier in a recent issue of Nouveaux Cahiers du Socialisme. My translation is followed by links to a key article by Bernard also available in English. Footnotes are by NCS unless initialled by me. – Richard Fidler (…)
, par ALEWITZ Mike, ALLISON Sam, WILLIAMS Douglas
“Life is not an easy matter… You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea.” — Leon Trotsky
“LET’S RENT A TRAIN !” is an unprecedented historical film about the rise and fall of a militant revolutionary group that profoundly (…)
, by KEMBLE Rebecca
Thousands of marchers braved frigid temperatures and took to the streets of Montréal, Quebec on Saturday, December 10, 2022 in an Indigenous-led march outside the COP 15 Conference on Biodiversity.
They came to demand strong agreements to protect land, water and all who depend on them for (…)
, by BONHOMME Marc
We do not live in a world without war, far from it. Intense in Ukraine, Burma, Yemen, just yesterday in Ethiopia, the “most deadly of the 21st century” with its 600,000 dead according to Amnesty International, they are latent and endless in Palestine, Syria, Kurdistan, South Sudan that only the (…)
, by RIDDELL John
The socialist movement lost a long-time organizer and master builder with the death on December 26, 2022, of George Bryant at the age of 91. George and his life partner Beatrice Bryant were influential figures in the Ontario socialist movement from the 1950s. Bea Bryant died in 2016 (see A Life (…)
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