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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While the convoy has been cleared from the streets of Ottawa, many questions need to be asked both about the role of former police and military personnel within the convoy, and the response of the police to the convoy and blockades. The police’s general motto is “to protect and to serve.” Ottawa’s police department expanded […]
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The BC Liberals have a new leader — Kevin Falcon. The nearly year-long campaign for the leadership ended on February 5. After the 5th ballot Kevin Falcon took in 52 percent of the votes; however, this result was largely inevitable from the first ballot where he led decisively with 47 percent. The leadership race came […]
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Socialist Answer to Climate Chaos Youth: Fighting for Our Future Doug Ford Hypocrisy Alberta’s Woes Continue Indigenous Struggles Against Environmental Racism Precarious Renters: Berlin Victory Life of a Precarious University Teacher Socialist Sawant Defeats Right Wing Page from History: Japanese Internment Book review: Five Little Indians by Michelle Good Workers Fight Back … and more […]
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After years of hard campaigning by tenants, the SRO Collaborative and Vancouver City Councillor Jean Swanson, a victory! In mid-November 2021, Vancouver City Council approved real rent control for the private single-room occupancy (SRO) hotels that house many of the city’s most vulnerable people in the Downtown Eastside. SROs are usually small single rooms, about […]
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Alberta’s largest unions have released a joint statement calling for an immediate circuit-breaker lockdown in order to deal with the Omicron wave of the COVID pandemic. The province is presently setting records of between 4,700 and 6,800 new cases every day. On the second day back to school in Edmonton, schools were short 737 teachers […]
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Socialist Alternative recently examined the idea that Doug Ford had become the friend of labour after his government increased the minimum wage and proposed that delivery workers should be allowed to use washrooms at locations they deliver to and that workers should have the right to “disconnect from work” (not answer the phone, reply to […]
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