Canada
Corporate Canada clamours for Trudeau to launch a violent crackdown on anti-pipeline protests
By Roger Jordan, 14 February 2020
The corporate media’s response to the protests has become increasingly frantic, with the National Post raging that Canada is being turned into a “mob city,” while the Edmonton Journal says, “Chaos has come to Canada.”
Documentary on Alberta train derailment uncovers evidence of criminal negligence by CP Rail
By Penny Smith, 13 February 2020
The CBC documentary on the fatal February 3, 2019, derailment exposes a “string of critical failures” on the part of the railway, including in maintenance, inspections, and brake management.
Canada’s military top brass joins CSIS in demanding Huawei ban
By Roger Jordan, 12 February 2020
The media and military-security establishment have been demanding for months that the Trudeau government take an even harder anti-China line.
Quebec court rejects petition to stay anti-democratic provisions of CAQ’s “secularism” law
By Louis Girard, 11 February 2020
All three Appeal Court judges found that the CAQ law is causing “serious and irreparable harm” to religious minorities—especially Muslim women. Nevertheless, the court ruled that the “will” of the National Assembly must prevail.
At urging of provincial Moe government, police attack locked-out Saskatchewan refinery workers
By Carl Bronski, 10 February 2020
In actions reminiscent of a police state, the Regina City Police launched a ruthless crackdown on lawful picketers late Thursday.
Montreal SEP Canada meeting demands freedom for Assange and Manning
By our reporters, 8 February 2020
Assange and Manning are the targets of a legal vendetta meant to intimidate and silence all those who would seek to expose the crimes of US imperialism and its allies.
Unifor praises Saskatchewan premier as he demands police action against locked out refinery workers
By Carl Bronski, 6 February 2020
Saskatchewan’s right-wing premier could hardly have spelled out his support for the highly profitable FCL, its demands for sweeping concessions, and its scabbing operation more bluntly.
Ontario government escalates its assault on the poor
By Penny Smith, 4 February 2020
Among other regressive changes to Ontario’s social welfare programs, the Ford government plans to alter eligibility criteria to make it harder for disabled people to access support.
Unifor offers sweeping concessions to FCL management in failed bid to end Regina oil refinery lockout
By Carl Bronski, 3 February 2020
The union’s capitulation to the company was so brazen that Unifor lead negotiator Scott Doherty told a press conference that he “might get beaten up later” after workers learned of the concessions he placed on the table.
Unifor negotiating pension cuts in Saskatchewan refinery lockout
By Carl Bronski, 1 February 2020
Management agreed to the contract talks after Unifor bowed to its demand that it be allowed to resume its scabbing operation unimpeded.
Canada’s New Democrats plead for cooperation with Liberals, as Trudeau government lurches further right
By Roger Jordan, 1 February 2020
Amid a resurgence of the class struggle in Canada and internationally, the NDP and their trade union allies are seeking to collaborate still more closely with the pro-austerity, pro-war Liberal government.
Montreal meeting this Sunday to demand freedom for Julian Assange
1 February 2020
The Socialist Equality Party (Canada) is holding a public meeting in Montreal this Sunday, to fight for the freedom of Wikileaks founder Julian Assange, oppose war, and defend democratic rights.
How Canada’s corporate media smeared WikiLeaks publisher and journalist Julian Assange
By Roger Jordan, 30 January 2020
Canada’s leading media outlets have vilified Assange, while bemoaning the impact of WikiLeaks’ exposures on the global interests of American and Canadian imperialism.
Union-backed arbitrator imposes pay freezes on Alberta teachers and nurses
By Janet Browning and Roger Jordan, 28 January 2020
The decision means Alberta public school teachers will have been subject to wage freezes for seven of the last eight years.
Canada’s complicity in the persecution of Julian Assange
By Roger Jordan, 27 January 2020
The Canadian political establishment has maintained a deafening and complicit silence on the persecution of Assange throughout the past nine years.
As public support builds for Ontario teachers’ struggle, government denounces walkouts
By Carl Bronski and Roger Jordan, 25 January 2020
A recent opinion poll has underscored that most Ontarians support teachers in striking against the Ford government’s class-size increases and gutting of education support services.
While workers confront police violence and pro-company court injunctions,
Unifor prepares betrayal in Saskatchewan refinery lockout
By Carl Bronski, 25 January 2020
Using a phony, largely scripted “blockade” of the Co-op Refinery Complex as a diversionary backdrop, Unifor has moved to end the bitter, seven-week-long lockout of 750 oil refinery workers by ceding to management’s concession demands.
Consortium News sues for libel over claims it aided “Russian disinformation” campaign against Canada
By Kevin Reed, 24 January 2020
Consortium News has filed libel lawsuits against a Canadian state security agency and a television network over their false claims that the Virginia-based independent news organization spearheaded a pro-Russian disinformation campaign in Canada.
Canadian judge begins hearing Washington’s geopolitically explosive demand for extradition of top Huawei executive
By Roger Jordan, 23 January 2020
Canadian authorities seized Huawei CFO Meng Wanzhou at the behest of Washington, which is seeking her extradition on the basis of bogus fraud charges.
SEP to hold public meeting in Canada to demand freedom for Julian Assange
By the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), 22 January 2020
The Socialist Equality Party (Canada) is holding a public meeting in Montreal on Sunday, February 2 to fight for the freedom of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, oppose war, and defend democratic rights.
Ontario teachers to stage regional walkouts, as Ford government escalates threats
By Roger Jordan, 20 January 2020
While the unions are confining teachers to ineffectual one-day regional strikes, Ford and his ministers are plotting to ram through class-size increases and other cuts by outlawing all job action.
Saskatchewan NDP silent on oil refinery lockout
By Carl Bronski, 18 January 2020
With the explicit support of the right-wing Saskatchewan Party government, the courts and the police, CRC is mounting a massive scabbing operation.
Canada’s media and political establishment endorse illegal assassination of Iranian General Suleimani
By Roger Jordan, 17 January 2020
To the extent that criticisms have been made, they have revolved around the question of whether Suleimani’s murder by drone strike was tactically wise.
Royal Canadian Mounted Police advocated use of live fire against indigenous pipeline protesters
By Penny Smith and Roger Jordan, 11 January 2020
The incident underscores that Canada’s ruling elite will stop at nothing to enforce its insatiable drive for profit, and that opposition will be ruthlessly suppressed.
Canadian engineering firm SNC-Lavalin shielded from fraud, corruption charges
By Laurent Lafrance, 9 January 2020
With the full complicity of the Canadian and Quebec political establishment, SNC-Lavalin has made massive profits through criminal methods around the globe.
Canadian government tacitly endorses US assassination of Iranian general Soleimani
By Roger Jordan, 6 January 2020
Just hours after Trump ordered a drone strike to exterminate Suleimani, the Canadian government issued a statement denouncing Iranian “aggression” in the Middle East.
Saskatchewan oil refinery lockout:
Unifor bows to court injunction that greenlights CRC’s scabbing operation
By Carl Bronski, 3 January 2020
The court ruling criminalizes all but token “information picketing” by locked-out workers at the Cooperative Refinery Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan.
Quebec’s CAQ government launches fresh assault on public sector workers
By Laurent Lafrance, 31 December 2019
The Quebec government is demanding real wage cuts and other concessions from the province’s half million public sector workers.
Trudeau reaffirms Canada’s support for Israeli aggression
By Roger Jordan, 30 December 2019
Canada’s prime minister denounced a protest against a meeting meant to whitewash the crimes of the Israeli Defence Forces as “anti-Semitic.”
Canada: Alberta Conservatives’ austerity drive to exacerbate social crisis
By Riksen Stewart, 23 December 2019
Threats of a “general strike” from a few union bureaucrats are bluster aimed at containing and defusing mounting working-class hostility to the provincial government.
Why did Canada’s Conservatives rush to dump leader Andrew Scheer?
By Keith Jones, 20 December 2019
Like its counterparts in New York, London, and Berlin, the Canadian bourgeoisie is seized by the need to aggressively assert its interests against its capitalist rivals and to swell the profits squeezed from the working class.
GM Oshawa auto assembly ends production, eliminating 5,000 jobs
By Carl Bronski, 18 December 2019
The Unifor union suppressed all opposition to the closure of the factory while stoking animosity toward Mexican autoworkers.
NDP props up Trudeau, joins Conservatives in demanding tougher anti-China stance
By Keith Jones, 14 December 2019
The true character of the NDP’s “opposition” to the Liberals and the Conservatives—the Canadian ruling class’ traditional parties of national government—was laid bare in two recent parliamentary votes.
999 NDP props up Trudeau, joins Conservatives in demanding tougher anti China stance
13 December 2019
Canada: Saskatchewan oil refinery locks out 800 workers, deploys scabs
By Carl Bronski, 12 December 2019
The Co-op Refinery Complex in Regina, Saskatchewan has locked out its workforce after workers defied its demands for further pension cuts.
Canadian parliament reconvenes following formation of Liberal minority government
By Roger Jordan, 7 December 2019
The initial actions of the new government underscore that Trudeau’s second term will be characterized by a further turn to the right on foreign and domestic policy, and an intensified reliance on the unions and NDP for “progressive” cover.
Ontario teachers strike against government assault on public education
By our reporters, 6 December 2019
Wednesday’s province-wide high school teachers’ strike won widespread support from parents, students and other working people.
Ontario high school teachers stage one-day walkout Wednesday
By Roger Jordan, 4 December 2019
More than 60,000 Ontario high school teachers will walk off the job today in opposition to the sweeping cuts the provincial Conservative government is making to education and their terms of employment.
Canada: Labour board greenlights closure of Nemak’s Windsor auto casting plant
By Carl Bronski, 3 December 2019
Unifor officials feigned shock over the arbitrator’s decision. But time and again the union has imposed concessions in exchange for “ironclad” job guarantees that quickly proved worthless.
Canada’s Human Rights Tribunal condemns government’s treatment of indigenous children
By Janet Browning and Roger Jordan, 30 November 2019
The Canadian Human Rights Tribunal has rebuked the Liberal government for its refusal to compensate poor indigenous children and their families for discriminatory and neglectful treatment.
Teamsters shut down CN Rail strike, praise Canada’s big business Liberal government
By Keith Jones, 27 November 2019
Everything suggests the union abandoned all, or at least most, of the CN Rail workers’ key demands in their rush to shut down the strike and avert a confrontation with the federal Liberal government.
Canada’s New Democrats and the coup in Bolivia—a reply to a reader
By Roger Jordan, 23 November 2019
With phony rhetoric about Canada’s role in promoting “democracy” and “human rights,” the NDP aids and abets Canadian imperialist intrigue, aggression and war.
As corporate Canada calls for strike-breaking legislation
CN Rail workers continue fight against onerous working conditions
By Carl Bronski, 22 November 2019
Demands have been made from all quarters of the corporate elite for Justin Trudeau’s Liberal government to quickly bring in back-to-work legislation criminalizing the four-day-old strike.
Over 3,000 Canadian National Railway workers strike across Canada
By Roger Jordan, 20 November 2019
Workers, who have been without a contract since July, are protesting against dangerous working conditions and long shifts, which have led to high levels of fatigue.
Unifor imposes concessions contracts on Saskatchewan Crown Corporation workers
By Carl Bronski, 19 November 2019
Governments across Canada have initiated a new austerity wave, targeting public services and the jobs and wages of the workers who administer them.
Canada abets US-sponsored coup in Bolivia
By Roger Jordan, 15 November 2019
Canada’s union-backed, ostensibly “progressive” Liberal government is once again assisting Washington in ousting a Latin American government deemed insufficiently pliant to imperialist interests.
Remembrance Day and Rearmament:
Why Canada’s elite finally turned on notorious right-wing hockey commentator Don Cherry
By Carl Bronski, 14 November 2019
Don Cherry, the long-time intermission commentator on the iconic “Hockey Night in Canada” television broadcast, was fired Monday after delivering the latest in a decades-long string of right-wing, xenophobic rants.
“Give me a call”: NDP MP offers to join Canada’s pro-austerity, pro-war Liberal government
By Roger Jordan, 12 November 2019
The Alberta MP’s offer to join Trudeau’s cabinet was in keeping with the entire NDP election campaign, which was directed towards forming a governmental alliance with the big-business Liberals.
Massive vote in favour of strike by Ontario elementary school teachers
By Jake Silver and Roger Jordan, 9 November 2019
The virtually unanimous strike vote by teachers reflects the depth of opposition to the government’s austerity agenda and is part of a growing upsurge of the class struggle internationally.
Unifor’s attempt to impose concessions contracts on Saskatchewan workers meeting widespread opposition
By Carl Bronski, 4 November 2019
On learning that Unifor had accepted a two-year wage freeze in order to scuttle a 17-day strike, Saskatchewan Crown corporation workers denounced the union leadership from the floor of ratification meetings.
Alberta’s Conservative government tables class-war budget
By Janet Browning and Roger Jordan, 31 October 2019
The maiden budget of Alberta’s right-wing populist United Conservative Party government makes devastating across-the-board public spending cuts.
Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback supports wage cuts for Ontario education workers
By Roger Jordan, 30 October 2019
Fightback has lavishly praised the sellout agreement that CUPE is seeking to impose on 55,000 Ontario school support staff, after scuttling a threatened strike.
Canada: NDP, unions eager to prop up Trudeau Liberal government
By Keith Jones, 24 October 2019
The social-democratic politicians and their union allies intend to prop up the pro-austerity, pro-war Liberals under the guise of providing Canadians with “progressive” government.
British Columbia: IATSE suppresses opposition to union malfeasance
By Carl Bronski, 24 October 2019
The International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees has threatened rank-and-file workers with criminal charges if details of a spending scandal were further publicized.
Canada’s Liberals cling to power, to form minority government with one-third of votes cast
By Roger Jordan and Keith Jones, 22 October 2019
The election results revealed, in distorted form, the mounting alienation of the vast majority of the population from the political establishment, which is moving ever further right.
As the federal election campaign concludes
Canadian workers must prepare for convulsive struggles
By Keith Jones, 21 October 2019
The actions of the incoming government will be determined not by its bogus election promises, but by the needs of Canada’s ruling class under conditions of economic crisis, great-power conflict and mounting working-class opposition.
Canada’s unions spending millions to re-elect Trudeau’s pro-war, pro-austerity Liberals
By Roger Jordan, 19 October 2019
The unions are presenting the Conservatives as a singular threat to working people, so as to drum up votes for the big business Liberals.
Canadian elections: Bloc Québécois champions Quebec chauvinism, law targeting religious minorities
By Louis Girard, 18 October 2019
The Bloc’s enthusiasm for the chauvinist, anti-worker policies of Quebec’s right-wing nationalist CAQ government exposes the monumental fraud of its claim to be the only party that stands for Quebeckers in the current election.
Canada’s involvement in US-led war drive against China: An election non-issue
By Roger Jordan, 17 October 2019
A tacit all-party agreement to black out discussion of Canada’s rearmament and involvement in US strategic offensives around the world has been in effect throughout the campaign for the October 21 federal election.
Opinion polls indicate Canada’s elections to end in hung parliament
By Keith Jones, 16 October 2019
Excluded from the official campaign has been any substantive discussion of the critical issues confronting working people—mounting economic insecurity and social inequality, the assault on democratic rights, rearmament and the threat of war.
Quebec Federation of Labour’s Solidarity Fund sponsors speech by Conservative Party leader Scheer
By Laurent Lafrance, 15 October 2019
The QFL’s promotion of the Conservative Scheer attests to the trade union bureaucracy’s readiness to collaborate with the most right-wing forces.
NDP advocates spending tens of billions on Canada’s military
By Roger Jordan, 14 October 2019
Canada’s social democrats are full-throated supporters of the Trudeau Liberal government’s plans to buy new fleets of warships and fighter jets.
Canada’s NDP spouts “progressive” rhetoric while planning to prop up minority Liberal government
By Roger Jordan, 12 October 2019
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh’s push for a de facto coalition with Trudeau’s Liberals is in keeping with the NDP’s traditions as a nationalist, pro-capitalist party allied with the union bureaucracy.
CUPE torpedoes Ontario school support-staff strike, accepts Ford’s wage and budget cuts
By Roger Jordan, 8 October 2019
CUPE has agreed to a sell-out contract that strengthens the hand of the Ford government as it presses forward with savage cuts to education, including dramatic class-size increases.
Canada: Five thousand public sector workers strike in Saskatchewan
By Carl Bronski, 7 October 2019
The strike, involving workers at SaskPower, SaskTel, SaskWater, SaskEnergy, the Water Security Agency and two SaskTel subsidiaries, is the largest in Saskatchewan for decades.
Ontario education workers set to strike Monday against Ford’s savage cuts
By Penny Smith and Roger Jordan, 5 October 2019
The Canadian Union of Public Employees and the teachers unions are terrified that a strike will result in a head-on clash with the hated Ford government and trigger a broader working-class challenge to the capitalist elite’s austerity agenda.
Quebec prosecuting nearly 100 crane operators for “illegal” 2018 strike
By Louis Girard, 3 October 2019
While the government is making an example of the crane operators with the aim of intimidating workers into bowing before the anti-strike laws, the unions are deafeningly silent.
Conrad Black decries Trudeau’s “weak” leadership, “evil campaign”
By Roger Jordan, 1 October 2019
Black’s National Post op-ed sheds light on the real motives behind the feigned outrage within the political and media establishment over Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s “blackface” photos.
As US GM strike continues
Layoffs mount in Canadian auto industry
By Carl Bronski, 30 September 2019
Over 6,000 Canadian auto assembly and parts workers have been temporarily laid off as a result of the ongoing strike by 48,000 American UAW members against GM.
Half a million people join Montreal climate change protest
By our reporters, 30 September 2019
The scale of Friday’s protest attests to mounting popular anger at the failure of the world’s corporate-controlled governments to address this social and ecological crisis.
Ontario government’s legal aid cuts trigger widespread protests
By Penny Smith, 27 September 2019
The Ford government’s assault on legal aid is part of a broader austerity agenda targeting all working people, but especially the poorest and most vulnerable sections of the working class.
Alberta’s MacKinnon report provides blueprint for austerity and repression
By Roger Jordan, 25 September 2019
To order, the MacKinnon taskforce has provided Alberta’s United Conservative Party government with a blueprint for massive social spending cuts and repressive measures to counter mass working-class opposition.
Trudeau’s “blackface” photos: How to oppose Canada’s Liberal government, and how not to
20 September 2019
The working class must oppose the Trudeau Liberal government. But it must do so from its own class standpoint and without becoming ensnared in the intrigues and provocations of the Liberals’ big-business political opponents.
Unifor shuts down Nemak auto parts strike in Windsor, Canada
By Carl Bronski, 19 September 2019
Bitterly opposed to mobilizing tens of thousands of Canadian and striking US autoworkers in support of Nemak workers, Unifor has handed the initiative back to the company and the state.
Canada’s media join Conservatives in pushing for RCMP to play key role in election outcome
By Roger Jordan, 16 September 2019
The Trudeau government is a pro-austerity, pro-war government that must be implacably opposed by the working class. But in doing so, it must lend no support to the reactionary intrigues of the Tories and their media allies.
Canada’s pseudo-left Fightback group covers for Steelworkers’ betrayal of ABI workers
By Félix Gauthier and Richard Dufour, 14 September 2019
Fightback’s miserable apologetics for the union bureaucracy goes hand in hand with its promotion of Quebec nationalism.
As union prepares sell-out of their struggle
Unifor President Jerry Dias addresses Nemak workers in Windsor
By Carl Bronski, 13 September 2019
A court ruling is expected as soon as Friday on an order demanding the taking down of picket lines at the parts plant where workers walked out last week in defence of jobs.
Canada’s Liberals spending tens of billions on battleships, warplanes
By Louis Girard, 13 September 2019
While governments at all levels incessantly declare that “there is no money” for hospitals, schools and public services, the Trudeau Liberal government is spending billions to modernize Canada’s military arsenal.
With union support, Trudeau’s big business Liberals vie for re-election in fall vote
By Keith Jones, 12 September 2019
Whichever party or combination of parties forms Canada’s government after October 21, it will be a government of austerity, reaction and war.
Ontario education unions disarm teachers, support staff facing attack on jobs and conditions
By Roger Jordan, 11 September 2019
The unions are seeking to block a teachers strike, because they fear it could trigger a broader working-class challenge to the Ford government and the agenda of austerity.
The struggle of autoworkers against GM, Ford, and Chrysler requires a global strategy
By Jerry White, 11 September 2019
Just days before 158,000 US autoworkers face a contract deadline, GM workers in Korea and Mexico have entered the battle, underscoring the need to unify autoworkers across national borders.
Court orders end to “unlawful” Windsor, Ontario auto parts strike
By Carl Bronski, 6 September 2019
Unifor President Jerry Dias is again ramping up his anti-Mexican demagogy in an effort to divert the struggle by workers at parts maker Nemak who have blockaded the plant in an effort to defend their jobs.
Quebec: New attack on crane operators provokes strong opposition
By Louis Girard, 5 September 2019
The government’s regressive regulatory “reform” poses a serious threat to the safety of both the public and construction workers.
Unifor tries to keep Canadian autoworkers in the dark about US contract battle
By Carl Bronski, 4 September 2019
The Unifor bureaucrats are terrified that the impending struggle of US Detroit Three workers could trigger a unified cross-border offensive by autoworkers.
Canada to go to polls amid geopolitical crisis, mounting working-class resistance
By Roger Jordan, 31 August 2019
The October 21 federal election campaign will not seriously address any of the pressing issues confronting the working class, as all of Canada's establishment parties lurch to the right.
Veteran New Democrat to chair Canada’s new intelligence “watchdog” agency
By Laurent Lafrance, 28 August 2019
Until recently a senior NDP MP, Rankin has accepted a post that will see him provide a pseudo-democratic fig leaf for the activities of Canada’s spy agencies.
Unifor convention gives centre-stage to Trudeau, Freeland and the Liberal re-election campaign
By Roger Jordan and Carl Bronski, 24 August 2019
Unifor is spearheading a massive union drive to keep the big business, pro-austerity, pro-war Trudeau Liberal government in power.
Ontario teachers face threat of state repression, wage and job cuts in upcoming contract fight
By Carl Bronski, 23 August 2019
The role of the teacher unions has been to hand the initiative to the Ford government, allowing the Tories to unveil a sweeping assault on teachers’ wages and working conditions without their organizing any meaningful opposition.
Quebec’s new CAQ-authored chauvinist laws incite spike in hate crimes
By Louis Girard, 20 August 2019
The more workers challenge austerity and social inequality, the more the ruling elite promotes Islamophobia and anti-immigrant chauvinism in an attempt to divide them and divert them from the struggle against crisis-ridden capitalism.
Report reveals damning evidence of Canadian government bid to block criminal prosecution of SNC-Lavalin
By Roger Jordan, 17 August 2019
The report presents a picture of a Who’s Who of the Canadian ruling elite working behind the scenes with the Prime Minister’s Office to shield one of the country’s most globally active corporations from criminal prosecution.
Canada: New federal law expands national security agencies’ repressive powers
By Laurent Lafrance, 15 August 2019
The new Liberal law entrenches the key anti-democratic provisions of the Harper government’s Bill C-51 and grants Canada spy agencies even more draconian powers.
Canada’s ruling elite whipping up anti-China hysteria to pave way for repression, rearmament and war
By Roger Jordan, 10 August 2019
All the organs of Canadian bourgeois propaganda—government institutions, political parties and corporate media outlets—have united to cast Ottawa as a beleaguered David confronting a Chinese Goliath.
“We are in a war with social injustice that cannot be reversed without an uprising”
Oshawa autoworker speaks on wildcat strikes, Unifor treachery
By Marcus Day, 9 August 2019
An autoworker at a supplier factory for GM’s Oshawa Assembly Plant in Canada, which is set to close later this year, spoke to the WSWS about last week’s wildcat strikes.
Canadian auto parts workers stage wildcat strike as Oshawa GM plant closure looms
By Carl Bronski, 7 August 2019
The short strike was organized by rank-and-file workers independently of the pro-company Unifor union, which spent the day telling workers to get back to work.
Quebec: A political balance sheet of the United Steelworkers’ betrayal of the ABI workers
By Laurent Lafrance, 5 August 2019
The United Steelworkers and Quebec Federation of Labour systematically isolated the ABI workers’ militant anti-concessions struggle after an 18-month lockout.
How Canada emerged as a haven for Ukrainian Nazi collaborators
By Roger Jordan, 29 July 2019
After World War II, Canada became a haven for far-right Ukrainian nationalists who had collaborated with the Nazis, including in waging war on the Soviet Union and murdering Jews.
Ontario government writes off 2009 auto bailout loan to Chrysler
By Carl Bronski, 22 July 2019
The federal Conservative and Ontario Liberal governments handed $13.7 billion over to the auto bosses at General Motors and Chrysler, while extorting massive wage and benefit concessions from autoworkers.
Canada’s Trudeau postures as opponent of Trump following US president’s fascist outburst
By Roger Jordan, 20 July 2019
Trudeau’s theatrics notwithstanding, his government is an enthusiastic accomplice of Trump in implementing some of his administration’s most reactionary and belligerent policies.
Canada’s Liberal government steps up internet censorship with creation of new media fund
By Penny Smith and Roger Jordan, 18 July 2019
Drawing on the language used by Google to justify its censorship, the Trudeau government plans to dispense $600 million to media outlets deemed to be producing “authoritative content.”
British Columbia forestry workers strike enters third week
By Jean LaChance, 17 July 2019
The USW is determined to isolate the forest workers and reach a rotten compromise with WFP management.
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