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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“Even as the West pushes for a diplomatic solution to escalating tensions between Russia and Ukraine, it is bracing and today further preparing for the possibility of war.” These words led off the January 24 broadcast of CBC’s flagship evening news show “The National,” and they encapsulate very well the tone that the Canadian media […]
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A highly chequered 2021 for the National Hockey League came to an end with the postponement of more games due to COVID, allegations of sexual abuse cover-up, and bullish economic news for the league’s owners and executives. Most recently, dozens of December and January games have been postponed because of the Omicron wave of COVID […]
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Paramedics face crises everyday as a basic part of their job. In British Columbia, they are also facing entirely avoidable crises of understaffing, low pay, and burnout. All of this was cruelly exposed in the summer heat dome, with soaring distress calls, long waits for ambulances and unnecessary deaths. It wasn’t always this way. BC’s […]
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Canada’s election was supposed to be a cakewalk for Justin Trudeau. It’s turned into a dogfight. On August 15, Canada’s ruling Liberal Party called a federal election for September 20 – over two years ahead of schedule – in an attempt to go from a minority government to a majority. This is in spite of […]
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After months, the worst-kept secret in Canadian politics can at last officially reveal itself: it’s federal election time. Prime Minister Justin Trudeau’s Liberals have determined that their best shot at regaining a majority government is right now, with a five-week campaign leading to election day on September 20. The Liberals only have to net 15 […]
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A typical Canada Day will see most of the country awash with red and white. This year it was more covered in a bright and distinct streak of Indigenous orange. While July 1 marks the independence from the British colonial master, for Indigenous people colonialism did not end – it was intensified after 1867. This […]
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