Over 500,000 Québec public service workers were on strike on Thursday, November 23. There were huge rallies across the province. This is the latest stage of the workers’ struggle to improve both their pay and conditions and the quality of public services. On November 6, 420,000 public sector workers in Québec’s Common Front of four […]
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Ty Moore is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. “We lost everything on one contract [in 2009]. There’s no reason why they can’t give this stuff back to us in one contract.” – Jerry Coleman, five-year temporary worker at the Stellantis Jeep plant in Toledo (NPR) Millions of workers watched the auto workers […]
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Philip Chmel is a member of Linkse Socialistiche Partij / Parti Socialiste de Lutte (ISA in Belgium). In many countries, workers and youth have taken actions against the shipment of arms to Israel and the massacre in Gaza. This has been urgently necessary and needs to be generalized and escalated. These actions follow a call […]
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For a Socialist Plan for Jobs and a Healthy Planet In October, many of Canada’s forests are full of red, orange and yellow leaves. The air is cool, and the rains have returned. All a welcome relief from the summer of hell. Then, the woods were a blaze of reds, oranges and yellow — but […]
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Back in 1953, the first oil traveled through the Trans Mountain (TMX) pipeline from Edmonton to Burnaby. The initial capacity was 150,000 barrels of oil per day. The most recent expansion, approved in 2019, will increase daily capacity to 890,000 barrels. The operation of the expanded pipeline will produce an estimated 400,000 tonnes of greenhouse […]
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Julien Daigneault and Charles D-V-L are members of Alternative Socialiste (ISA in Quebec). The failure of Montréal’s flagship affordable housing program, “20-20-20,” is making the rounds in Canada. The metropolis’ housing crisis is making life unaffordable for many and boosting homelessness and poisoning from toxic drugs like never before. Entrusting the management of cities to […]
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David Rhoades is a member of Socialist Alternative in the US. After 148 days on strike, the Writers Guild of America (WGA) forced the Association of Motion Picture and Television Producers (AMPTP) back to the negotiation table and squeezed major concessions out of frustrated studio heads. With a tentative agreement that surrenders ground to the […]
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Canada saw an attempt to whip up attacks on trans people on Wednesday, September 20. There were rallies across the country opposed to sex education in schools and for banning a wide range of library books. In most cases the counter rallies in support of trans rights far outnumber those trying to whip up hate. […]
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Under immense pressure, Doug Ford has backed down on his proposal to take land out of the Greenbelt. While this is a victory for Ontarians, the long saga has put Ford’s government in jeopardy. Three Down, Ford Should be Next The Greenbelt scandal has claimed four high profile members of Ford’s government, including two cabinet […]
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