As workers around the world continue to protest the Israeli military’s intensifying air and ground assault on Gaza, and in many cases their own governments’ support of this, those governments are taking repressive measures. Thousands around the world have been arrested at pro-Palestine public rallies, and such events have even been banned in countries including […]
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On Friday, September 22, Speaker of the House of Commons and Liberal Member of Parliament Anthony Rota introduced to the chamber “a Ukrainian hero and a Canadian hero.” He was not referring to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, seated a few metres away during the Ottawa stop of his North American tour to rally support for […]
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In December 2018, BC taxi driver Manoj Bhangu was physically assaulted at a workplace Christmas party by two of his co-workers when a business dispute got out of control. In the course of the assault, the two men attacked Bhangu not just with fists but with slurs. These slurs were not racist, nor LGBTQ-phobic, nor […]
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Women must be safe in and around sports Women in hockey have made major strides forward in the past decade. Canada’s national women’s and girls’ teams continue to regularly win international trophies, the percentage of girls enrolling in youth hockey is increasing along with other sports, and women have broken through into the ranks of […]
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The New Democratic Party (and its pre-1961 predecessor, the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation) was once a party with relatively healthy internal democracy and a relatively active membership. While never more than a social-democratic party, it kept its base engaged through riding association meetings, workplace activity through unions, and literal kitchen-table talks in big cities and small […]
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Unsurprisingly, Poilievre won the Conservative Party leadership, crushing all opposition with 68 percent of the vote. His nearest rival, the more traditional conservative Charest, only gained 16 percent of the vote. The populist right clearly dominates the Conservative Party’s membership. The big business backers of the Conservatives, such as reflected in The Globe and Mail, […]
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Steve Edwards is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. Chris Fofonoff is a member of Socialist Alternative Canada. As the campaign to unionize Starbucks heats up with over 200 stores seeking representation by Starbucks Workers United, the movement needs to draw lessons from previous battles to organize the coffee Goliath. In previous articles […]
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The Liberal government’s 2022 budget is a budget for Bay Street, not for working-class Canadians. It’s full of incentives and subsidies for big business, including fossil fuel companies and private developers. It has a housing program that will leave thousands without homes, and a weak and slowly implemented dental program that won’t cover everyone. The […]
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Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has invoked the Emergencies Act in response to the ongoing anti-vaccine-mandate “convoy” protests in Ottawa and elsewhere. Socialist Alternative opposes the right-wing convoy protests and also condemns Trudeau’s over-reaching move to impose this anti-democratic Act, which is being implemented for the first time since its passage in 1988. The effects of […]
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Since the resignation of Stephen Harper in 2015, Canada’s Conservative Party has had four leaders. Again, it is looking for a new leader. Erin O’Toole, elected to head the party by its membership just 17 months before, was voted out of that position by 73 of the Conservative Party’s 119 MPs in an online caucus […]
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