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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How Canada lost its publicly owned vaccine producing facilities Phew! The vaccines have arrived. Notwithstanding the conflicting and confusing information regarding AstraZeneca, most Canadians are relieved to be seeing that the vaccination program, having previously experienced some hiccups, is now rolling out relatively efficiently, although unevenly and with the risk of more bumps in the […]
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This weekend the federal New Democratic Party is holding its national convention. The Liberal government has signalled its intention to call a general election sometime this year, so this convention will say a lot about how the NDP plans to present itself to voters in the campaign. The party leadership would like to focus on […]
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The third COVID wave is crashing over most of Canada, and much of the rest of the world. Governments are blaming new variants of the virus, but the problem lies deeper than the variants. To be hit by three waves is a failure of governments. In Britain in the autumn of 2020, the new variant, […]
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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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