The City of Edmonton is driving wildly in the wrong direction with respect to transit fares. The plan is for the $3.50 cash fare to increase to $3.75 in May, and then to $4 in 2022. The Executive Committee of Edmonton City Council will vote on increasing cash fares on April 12. Adult monthly bus […]
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Recently former Prime Minister Stephen (Steve) Harper gave a speech to the Ottawa Conference on Security and Defence where he warned: “Elites are thriving and large segments of the rest of the population are not thriving,” he said. “The increase in income and wealth for the highest echelons of society has been unprecedented frankly since the […]
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Amazon’s warehouse in Brampton, on the edge of Toronto, was ordered to close by Peel Public Health…
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Members of Unite Here Local 40 have won an important victory. Over 500 laid-off workers at the Hyatt, Pinnacle, and Westin hotels have finally secured the “right to recall,” that is, to be rehired at their previous pay rate with the same accrued benefits. The workers’ contracts previously guaranteed temporarily laid-off employees their jobs back […]
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“You don’t get me, I’m part of the union.” The Strawbs, 1973 Something is stirring among Canada’s workers. The percentage of unionized workers is up. This might seem surprising given the widespread closures and hundreds of thousands of layoffs due to COVID and the world recession. Jim Stanford (former economist at Unifor) wrote in the […]
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In early March 2020, BC’s first confirmed COVID-19 cases and deaths occurred in a long-term care facility. Most of the early deaths were in care homes but, after a slow start, BC’s government acted to restrict staff to only working in one facility, to stop spreading of the virus, and boosted their pay to a […]
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The Braided Warriors, “Indigenous youth in səl̓ilw̓ətaʔɬ, sḵwx̱wú7mesh, and xʷməθkʷəy̓əm territories defending the land and the people from capitalist colonial violence,” picked a good target in AIG Canada, “a transnational finance and insurance company that is insuring the Trans Mountain tar sands pipeline in violation of Indigenous rights.” Make a credible threat to the profits, […]
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Not even COVID stopped the determined actions of Indigenous land defenders. They carried out some of the biggest actions that Canada has ever seen in response to the further invasions of sovereign Indigenous territories by the Canadian state. Peaceful blockades and rallies took place on rail lines, parliament grounds, various cities’ intersections and at government […]
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With contributions from Allie Pev and Sustainabiliteens:Vijay Tupper, Sophie Tang, Lilah Williamson, and Harrison Johnston Young people are set to inherit a ravaged planet, and in response they are more radicalized than ever. In opposition to abortion bans in Poland, against inequalities held over from the Pinochet era in Chile, to defeating of the dictatorship […]
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On January 28, Darwin Doloque, a 35-year-old Filipino worker, died from COVID-19. He was employed at the Olymel slaughterhouse in Red Deer in Alberta. Other workers from the slaughterhouse describe the fear of going to work, which they experience daily, as well as fear of reprisal for speaking out. At the peak in February there […]
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