On Saturday April 5, Vancouver will go to the polls in a municipal byelection. Two seats are up for grabs after Christine Boyle and Adrianne Carr resigned. Sean Orr, a working-class socialist, is the candidate of the Coalition of Progressive Electors (COPE). Socialist Alternative is active in COPE and we’re doing our part in this […]
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Mark Carney won with a landslide — supported by 86 percent of the over 150,000 Liberals who voted. After nearly a decade of Justin Trudeau, the Liberal party has found a new face for business as usual. Freeland, who came a distant second with 8 percent of the votes, differed little from Carney on policy. […]
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Update: March 6 Trump is treating the economies of Canada, Mexico and the US the way a cat “teases” a captured mouse. He is playing with the future and livelihoods of 500 million people. On March 4, tariffs on all imports from Mexico and Canada were hit with 25 percent tariffs, apart from energy and […]
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Update: March 4 Trump has declared a trade war on Canada and Mexico. Workers in Canada, Mexico and the US need to draw up plans to protect jobs, livelihoods, living standards and homes. Trump has imposed tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China. On March 4, he confirmed his long-threatened tariffs of 25 percent on all […]
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Canada is bracing for the impact of newly inaugurated President Trump. It looks likely to be a tumultuous period for relations between the Canadian and US states. Although Trump did not announce tariffs on Canadian and Mexican imports on his first day, he has said he plans to introduce them on February 1. Much like […]
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Update: March 2 A month is a long time in politics and Trump’s trade war has upended Poilievre’s straight road to victory. He spent the last year saying Canada was broken and now he is scrambling to re-brand himself as pro -Canada. Trudeau is going, but the uncertainty and turbulence are not over. The Liberals […]
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The Liberal government has ended the strike of 55,000 postal workers with an underhand use of an obscure clause, Section 107, of The Canada Labour Code. They used the same tactics to attack rail and port workers. In all three cases the bosses made unreasonable demands, attacking working conditions and jobs and then refusing to […]
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Chrystia Freeland’s resignation as Finance Minister is the latest blow to the crumbling Trudeau government. The NDP has stated it will vote “no confidence” in the government. How the government’s demise plays out is being debated now by Liberal MPs, as they face humiliating defeat in the election that is probably only months away. Unfortunately, for […]
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Nine days after the polls closed on Saturday, October 19, the outcome of BC’s election is becoming clearer. The BC Conservatives, which only four years ago got less than two percent of the vote and elected no one, with many candidates who had outlandish and bizarre views, nearly won. They were running against the NDP […]
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“It’s time for a change in this country, my friends – a real change.” A beaming Justin Trudeau spoke these words on the October 2015 evening when his Liberal Party won a crushing victory over the worn-out Stephen Harper’s Conservatives and the hapless Tom Mulcair’s New Democrats. These are also approximately the words that are […]
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