The Regional Municipality of Wood Buffalo, which includes Fort McMurray and nearby oilsands worksites, is reeling from a third wave of COVID. A state of emergency was declared on April 26. The region reached over 1,900 cases per 100,000 people in early May. Worksite outbreaks have contributed to the region’s highest cases per capita status, […]
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Electric vehicles (EV) are hot news. Sales worldwide soared in 2020, increasing by 43 percent over the previous year. Automakers and governments are embracing new EV markets and pushing electric vehicles as one of the most important solutions to climate change. Governments around the world are announcing support for the shift to EVs. Biden’s proposed […]
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On May 11, BC’s NDP government finally announced the introduction of paid sick leave, more than year into the COVID pandemic. This shift was driven by mounting pressure from unions, doctors, public health workers and the public. The NDP’s lack of sick pay was embarrassing after the conservative premier of Ontario, Doug Ford, introduced paid […]
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Thomas Berger sadly passed at the age of 88 on April 28. His may be a new name for some, particularly for younger generations, but the impact he had on Indigenous people in Canada is profound. He leaves a great (and rare) legacy as a former Supreme Court judge, NDP politician and lawyer. In his […]
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For decades now the Canadian telecommunications industry has been an oligopoly of “the big three,” Rogers, Telus, and Bell. These three companies each have over ten million subscribers and own essentially all of the infrastructure in the country. The next largest competitor, Shaw, has less than two million subscribers. But recently, Rogers announced that it […]
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The Washington Post published an op-ed piece by David Mossop on April 18 calling on Ontario’s Premier Doug Ford to resign. While it may seem odd that the call comes first from a foreign source, we should remember that they’re right next door, and suddenly, given the relatively competent leadership the US is experiencing at the moment, […]
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The Vancouver Canucks finally took to their home ice and notched a 3-2 overtime win over the Toronto Maple Leafs in an empty Rogers Arena on April 18. In spite of the win, the Canucks were mostly on the back foot and looked somewhat sluggish in their first National Hockey League game in 25 days. […]
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Doug Ford began his press conference Friday, April 16 with “we’re losing the battle.” Knowing Ford, many expected him to continue with “but we’re winning the war.” Mercifully, he spared us that. It would have been more than a stretch to make that claim given the latest grim figures from Ontario for the virus. The […]
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The racist shooting rampage that claimed the lives of eight people in Atlanta on March 16 is only the most recent manifestation of rising anti-Asian racism in the last year. Both geopolitical and individual tensions have been steadily rising due to everything from the US-China conflict, to the COVID-19 pandemic, or according to Atlanta Police […]
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Florence Custance was a teacher, feminist, labour militant, Marxist educator and one of the founders of the Communist Party of Canada. Born in England in 1881, Custance was trained as a school teacher and came to Canada as a young woman. In Canada she was active in labour and feminist struggles. She was one of […]
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