Workers Win Pay Raise and Cost of Living Agreement After 136 days, the strike of transit workers in the Whistler area ended on June 14. The lack of any public transit in the area caused real hardship, especially for low-paid workers, as well as to the 80 striking workers. The workers took strike action on […]
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Cost of Living Adjustment Needed Overwhelmingly, 33,000 BC Government employees have voted with a 94.6 percent majority, for strike action as they try to get the NDP government to agree wages that maintain living standards. The union, BCGEU, had an extensive campaign to reach members on the issues and to vote, taking the campaign to […]
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Defeat this Victorian Lunch Tax! The Saskatchewan Party’s latest attack is to levy a charge of $100 per elementary school child to supervise them during lunch time. Yes, you read that correctly; charge not for the food but to supervise children. And what happens if the parent can’t afford it? Dustin Duncan, the Sask Party’s […]
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The recent announcement that possession of up to 2.5 grams of certain illicit drugs will be exempted from criminal prosecution in BC has rightly been called a historic “forward step” towards addressing the ongoing toxic drug deaths. But in emergency situations, “forward steps” are not good enough — not if they are too slow and […]
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Jason Kenney has announced his resignation as Premier of Alberta and leader of the United Conservative Party (UCP). This after 48.6 percent, nearly half, of the party voted against him. Kenney consistently has been one of Canada’s most unpopular premiers. Yet, just a week after he announced his resignation, a new poll had the UCP […]
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Ontario goes to the polls on June 2. Doug Ford must go. Yet, this seems unlikely with the polls giving him a clear lead. How, after four years of U-turns, cutting services, gaffes and COVID shambles, is this possible? Somehow, Ford has led a charmed life over these years. He started off with policies to […]
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No to War! Build an Anti-War Movement Revolutionary Youth Ontario: Kick out Ford Workers Need a Real Pay Raise Polarization Comes to Canada Quality Childcare Needed … and much more from Canada and abroad! For printed copies, please send us an e-mail to [email protected] Please consider making a donation to help with our costs and […]
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After six years of BC’s public health emergency due to poison drugs things are much worse. The health emergency was declared following 474 deaths in 2015, yet in 2021 there were at least 2,232 drug fatalities. In contrast, there were 1,522 COVID deaths for all of 2021. After six years deaths are nearly five times […]
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Written by Socialist Alternative members in Alberta. Socialist Alternative interviewed Tanner Layton, a striking Faculty and Socialist Alternative member. On the morning of February 10, after failed negotiations between the University of Lethbridge Faculty Association (ULFA) and the University’s Board of Governors, the ULFA began legal strike action. How long have you been part of […]
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The cost of expanding the Trans Mountain Pipeline is out of control. When the government bought the pipeline from Kinder Morgan in 2018 for $4.5 billion, it was estimated that it would cost a further $7.4 billion to complete the expansion. Now the estimate has nearly tripled to $21.4 billion! The increased costs are partly […]
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