Inequality Rising Fight for $15 Growing Montréal Workers Strike For $15 Time for a Student Movement! Poverty Kills: Inequality is Bad for Health Site C: Stop the Damn! Liberal Honeymoon: Clouds on the Horizon Postal Workers Stop Management Attacks Brexit Shocks Elites US Elections Exposes Anger at Establishment … more on Canada and the world […]
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On the evening of May 3 the entire population of the city of Fort McMurray was ordered to leave as the ‘beast’ of an out-of-control wildfire swept towards it. 94,000 people fled their homes in a few short hours, from Fort McMurray and other nearby northern Alberta communities. Most people had a terrifying drive through […]
Continue ReadingSean Smith (in interview). The following is an interview with Sean Smith, Mobilization Co-ordinator, UNIFOR 2002 and Representative, Toronto Airport Workers Council. Tim Heffernan (Socialist Alternative) is asking the questions. The interview was conducted in April 2016. Here is a useful background story from the Toronto Star, April 2015. TIM: Okay, so Sean, first question. […]
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Fight for $15! Reconciliation Needs Housing and Healing TPP: Destroys Jobs and the Environment Housing Crisis in Vancouver and Toronto Pharmacare: The Right Prescription Work Sucks: We Need the Economy that Works for Workers Postal Workers Show the Way Upheaval in US Politics Québec Workers Mobilize: Union Leaders Demobilize 100 Years of Women’s Vote, but […]
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Vancouver Speaker: Ramy Khahil (Seattle) Sunday, January 24, 2 pm Room 1600, SFU Harbour Centre 515 W Hastings Toronto Speaker: Eljeer Hawkins (New York) Thursday, January 28, 7 pm 519 Church Street Community Centre 1 block east of Yonge, north of Wellesley
Continue ReadingThe headline in mic.com ran: “Meet the Most Important Socialist in America Not Named Bernie Sanders.” It was about the impact of open Socialist, Kshama Sawant, who had just been re-elected in a Seattle Council election. The article went on to say, “Sanders isn’t the only socialist in the United States making a splash. Kshama […]
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Continue ReadingThe people of Alberta have delivered a stunning election result, upsetting the landscape of Canada. There were headlines in the US about Canada’s Texas electing a socialist government. The Conservatives were kicked out of office after 44 years and the New Democratic Party (NDP) won a majority government. The NDP won 41% of the vote […]
Continue ReadingUnited States – Will it Explode? Kailyn Nicholson (Activist in Seattle) Sunday, January 25, 2 pm Room 1600, SFU Harbour Centre 515 W Hastings St, Vancouver
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