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The Quebec election on October 3 will be bathed in a situation of inflation (and the threat of recession), which will affect food and housing as much as transport and energy, against a heat wave background hitting all continents of the northern hemisphere almost simultaneously. To put it in (...)
Canada was the first NATO country to approve the enlargement of the alliance in 1998
Moscow’s illegal invasion of Ukraine has been condemned around the world. The suffering of Ukrainian civilians and soldiers is shocking, and the worst is yet to come as Russian forces push deeper into Ukrainian (...)
The trucker convoy is a “revolt” of petit-bourgeoisie owner-operators, financially backed by wealthy right-wing grifters — not the vast majority of exploited trucking workers.
The so-called “Freedom Convoy” descended on Ottawa this past weekend to oppose the new federal vaccine mandate for (...)
Bill 59 (now Law 27) on occupational health and safety was adopted, as amended, at the end of September by the National Assembly, against the unanimous opposition of the unions, organizations for the defence of unorganized workers, and all the opposition parties. Even if the struggle will (...)
One hundred thousand students strike, 15 to 20 thousand demonstrate in Quebec
More than 110,000 students in Quebec went on strike September 24, according to the Coalition étudiante pour un virage environnemental et social (CEVES – Student coalition for environmental and social transition), the (...)
In 1970, the national question and the social question were merged (especially in Montreal). The big “bosses” were English. The overwhelmingly francophone working class was exploited as well as oppressed and vice versa. Language on signs and in the workplace, and the names of companies, were (...)
On Labour Day, the Conservative Party’s new leader, Erin O’Toole, released a video touting his new “Canada First” economic strategy.
In it, he blames big government, corporate elites and bad trade deals for Canada’s ailing manufacturing and forestry sectors, and offers his Canada First economic (...)
When we struggle in Canada against racial injustice, for climate justice, the rights of migrants and social justice more generally — but have no understanding of the “Ottawa Initiative on Haiti,” “Core Group,” “Lima Group,” or even an IMF structural adjustment program — we need to ask ourselves (...)
“André Ouellet, Canada’s [Liberal] foreign affairs minister, threw human rights out of the whole issue of trade,” He [Craig Kielburger] told the delegates indignantly. “He said that Canada isn’t the world’s Boy Scout.” (Laughter. Meaningful pause).
“Well, I’m a Boy Scout-” (Prolonged surge of laughter (...)
The 2018 national assembly election in Québec marked a breakthrough for the Left. While a right-wing coalition won the most votes, the election’s biggest surprise was the unprecedented success of the left-wing, pro-independence party Québec solidaire (Solidarity Québec, QS). It broke out of its (...)
During the federal election, Bloc Québécois leader Yves-François Blanchet presented himself as Québec’s spokesperson while defending the policies enacted at the provincial level by the majority CAQ (Coalition Avenir Québec) government led by François Legault. He thus took up the cudgels for the CAQ’s (...)
On October 21, 2019, Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Party was re-elected in Canada, but this time with a minority government.
The elections failed to address Canada’s real issues (Photo: Mark Klotz)
In Canada’s parliamentary system, the Prime Minister is not elected directly, as the President is in (...)
It is still early to interpret fully the results of Canada’s October 21 federal election. But behind the immediate results some trends are clear.
Canada’s Federal Election, 2019
2019 2015
Party Seats Votes % of vote Seats Votes % of vote
Liberal 157 5,915,950 33.1 184 6,930,136 39.5 (...)
The SNC-Lavalin scandal and what it teaches us
Canadian voters will elect a new federal government on October 21. Over the next few days I will draw attention here to some important issues of particular concern to progressive opinion that have been largely overlooked or ignored during the (...)
By now most environmentally conscious people understand that Jair Bolsonaro is a bad guy. Brazil’s president has scandalously blamed environmentalists for starting fires burning in the Amazon region, after having called for more “development” of the huge forests.
Canadians are lucky we have a (...)
AGAINST THE CURRENT interviewed Todd Gordon, co-author (with Jeffery Webber) of Blood of Extraction: Canadian Imperialism in Latin America about mining operations in Canada and internationally. He is a socialist activist in Toronto and a member of the Toronto New Socialists.
Against the (...)
Party seeks to reclaim secularism from conservative political trends in Quebec
This weekend, at a CEGEP in Quebec City, Québec Solidaire continued its transformation of left-wing politics in the province.
No longer does the party support banning police officers, judges and Crown prosecutors (...)
Last fall, Quebec saw over 58,000 students participate in a week-long strike. From November 19 to 24, students at universities and junior colleges (CEGEPs) walked out on classes, held street marches, and formed picket lines in front of their schools to enforce strike mandates.
Now, another (...)
There was good reason to fear the worst when Ontario’s Minister of Children, Community and Social Services, Lisa MacLeod, announced that the new government was engaged in a “100 Day Review” of social assistance. Mike Harris’ infamous 21.6% cut to welfare rates may be 20 years old, but the memories (...)
The political landscape in Québec changed radically last Monday for the first time since 1972. A radical left-wing party emerged as an unavoidable political force, a new right-wing populist party took power, and the old mainstream parties sustained historical defeats.
The Liberal Party of (...)
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