Gender-based violence continues to be a scourge in Canada. On the 36th anniversary of the Montreal massacre, Socialist Alternative Canada’s Socialist Feminist Working Group organized a powerful meeting against gender violence and oppression. About thirty people participated in the meeting, both in-person and connecting through Zoom from cities across Canada, including watch parties in Vancouver, […]
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Times are tough for working-class people in Canada. The cost of living keeps going up, including the cost of housing, debt, transportation, and groceries. Wages aren’t keeping up with inflation. People are struggling to pay rent in inadequate or poor-quality housing, and welfare rates are insufficient to keep recipients above the poverty line. Youth face […]
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On June 28, 200,000 people took to the streets of Budapest in defiance of police orders not to gather. This was the date of Budapest Pride, an event which has taken place every year since 1995 and that Hungary’s far-right prime minister Viktor Orbán’s attempted to ban. Instead, the turnout at this years’ illegal Pride […]
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Violet Forrie and Ray Goerke Youth have always been on the forefront of struggles for social change. Less burdened by the sting of past defeats, they look forward and see the world as it could be. On the horizon of today’s world is war and genocide, climate disasters, rising poverty and inequality, and emboldened far-right […]
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In a result that would have been unthinkable just four months ago, the Liberal Party of Canada has won its fourth consecutive election, securing another minority government. Polling showed that the Conservative leader, Pierre Poilievre, was poised to win a historic victory. Instead, he lost the seat he has held since 2004. This demonstrates the […]
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Update April 6 COPE won a stunning victory in the byelection. COPE’s candidate, Sean Orr, topped the poll! After 2.5 years as the majority party on Council, the reactionary party of the developers — ABC, led by mayor Ken Sim — is hated. Their candidates finished bottom of all the parties, with only 14 percent […]
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Renewable Energy Needed for Jobs and Climate BC’s NDP government enthusiastically supports the extraction and export of Liquid Natural Gas (LNG). It claims LNG is a “cleaner” alternative to coal, and burning it is part of a “transition” away from fossil fuels. The reality is that LNG is actually worse than coal for global emissions. […]
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Students and teachers are struggling in BC with underfunded and understaffed schools. The public school system faces teacher shortages and increasing enrolment, but the provincial NDP government didn’t provide enough funding to address these shortfalls. This has led to widespread concerns that this year’s Vancouver School Board (VSB) budget will include cuts to programs and […]
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“I was manhandled by RCMP officers, my ceremonial dress, which has never been defiled since my grandfather’s time, will never be the same again.” These words by Chief Na’Moks, Hereditary Chief of Wet’suwet’en, express the outrage at the RCMP’s actions at the Annual General Meeting (AGM) of RBC, held on April 5 in Saskatoon. Indigenous […]
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Capitalism Does Not Lead to Democracy The end of the neoliberal era was recently recognized by Canada’s Deputy Prime Minister Chrystia Freeland. Her speech on October 11, at the Brookings Institution in Washington, outlined a vision, what some are calling the “Freeland Doctrine,” stridently calling out China and Russia as geopolitical enemies of Western capitalism. […]
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