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On January 11, I forwarded to the Socialist Project discussion list an interview with a Polish socialist Zofia Malisz: “Razem: Building a left alternative in Poland.” She explained that when Russia invaded Ukraine her movement, Razem, had “absolutely no doubts that this invasion represented an (...)
Atlantic Canada has been left reeling from the impacts of one of the largest and most dangerous ocean storms to ever hit the region. Hurricane Fiona made landfall as a powerful post-tropical storm on Saturday along the eastern shore of Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island and Newfoundland and (...)
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 (...)
Apologizing for people versus the establishment that upheld not only the Indian Residential Schools system but protected – and continues to protect — the people who committed the crimes is horrifying.
Pope Francis came this week to Maskwasic in central Alberta — where many Indigenous people, (...)
It appears all but certain that the present Tory leadership race will result in a victory for the party’s hard right in the person of Pierre Poilievre. In the spirit of not laughing or weeping but understanding, it’s crucial to assess the highly unfortunate implications of so deplorable a result. (...)
Remarks in Alberta omitted Catholic Church’s complicity and cover-up of the sexual abuse of thousands of Indigenous children and its role in genocide.
The apology we heard from Pope Francis in Maskwacis this week was indeed historic, but predictably lacking in substance.
In what sounded like (...)
In their electoral platform for the fall election, Québec solidaire, which has 10 MPs out of 125 in Quebec’s parliament, is proposing to achieve a reduction of greenhouse gases (GHGs) of 55 to 65% by 2030. But as the awareness of the climate catastrophe is becoming widespread, so is the pessimism (...)
It is now 40 years since the Trudeau Sr. government “patriated” Canada’s constitution, ending Britain’s vestigial control over changes in the country’s founding document, the British North America Act.
Much of the critical analysis at the time focused on how the 1982 Constitution Act marginalized (...)
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 (...)
Ostensibly, the anti-vax movement is anti-tyranny and anti-fascist, and they sometimes portray the promoters of vaccine mandates as fascists. In reality there are far right and even fascist elements in the movement. But many of those participating are confused and do not have well formed (...)
The organizers and money are from wealthy right-wingers, but the “Freedom Convoy” touches broader popular discontent.
The “Freedom Convoy”—which for a week shut down trucking traffic at the Ambassador’s Bridge separating Detroit from Windsor, Canada, and led to a siege of Ottawa—has given a certain (...)
The “Freedom Convoy” is the biggest protest organized by the Canadian far right since the 1930s. It swarmed Ottawa with reactionary exuberance, waving Nazi, Confederate, Gadsden, Red Ensign, and Maple Leaf flags, issuing threats of violence against opponents, and dreaming of recuperating a (...)
Canada has been rocked in recent weeks by the “Freedom Convoys” that have descended on the nation’s cities and blocked border crossings across the country. Bryan D. Palmer maps the political and social composition of this new alt-right uprising.
Everything happening in the United States comes to (...)
ANTI-VAXXERS HAVE parked rigs and trucks in Ottawa, Canada’s capital, for more than a week. Is this a demonstration workers should support? Tony Leah explains why the demonstrators in Ottawa and some other parts of Canada are NOT workers, for the most part, and are not fighting for workers’ (...)
What began as a protest against vaccine requirements for truck drivers has grown into a widening movement as Trudeau refuses to engage with demands
Diesel fumes and marijuana smoke filled the air outside the Canadian parliament as a “Freedom Convoy” protest against vaccine mandates headed into (...)
Canadian “Freedom Convoy” opposes all mask and vaccination mandates and is rife with far right white supremacists. Photo from Business Insider.
[Feb. 9, 2020] Truckers in a so-called “Freedom Convoy” have led protests of hundreds and sometimes thousands in several Canadian cities against pandemic (...)
How did this ‘grassroots’ rebellion paralyse the Canadian capital? With funding from the far right and a boost from Facebook misinformation
What the truck is going on in Canada? No offence to Ottawa, but it’s not the most exciting place in the world. Over the past couple of weeks, however, the (...)
Teamsters Canada is proud to represent over 55,000 professional drivers from diverse industries across the country, approximately 15,000 of which are long haul truck drivers, 90% of whom are vaccinated.
The so-called “freedom convoy” and the despicable display of hate lead by the political Right (...)
Workers in Canada’s trucking industry have suffered during the pandemic. The “Freedom Convoy,” a right-wing, pro-business social movement, purports itself to be the people’s champion of liberty — yet it couldn’t care less about the hardships and burdens of its fellow workers.
The so-called “Freedom (...)
They have failed to step into the current political climate and counter far-right protests, and get workers the income, housing and other social support they need.
As bands of well-funded anti-vaxxers and anti-maskers, opportunistic Nazis, pickup truck owners, and some disaffected long-haul (...)
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