Canada
Canada complicit in torture of hundreds of Afghan detainees
By Keith Jones, November 20, 2009
“We detained, and handed over for severe torture, a lot of innocent people,” a Canadian diplomat has told a parliamentary committee on the Canadian Armed Forces’ Afghan mission.
Canada: Chaotic response to swine flu pandemic highlights government indifference
By Carl Bronski, November 9, 2009
Federal and provincial health officials are backtracking on earlier commitments to help both high-risk groups and members of the general population seeking vaccination.
Quebec’s Liberal government to impose draconian spending cuts, fee hikes
By Louis Girard, November 9, 2009
The ruling elite views the province’s deteriorating fiscal position as an opportunity to press for changes in socio-economic policy that it has long sought, including cuts in public and social servi...
Anxious to thwart cross-border struggle
CAW rams through concessions at Ford Canada
By Keith Jones, November 3, 2009
Fearing the impact that the resistance of US Ford workers would have on workers in Canada, the CAW leadership hastened to conclude the terms of its latest surrender with the Detroit-based auto maker.
Canada: Vale Inco continues provocations against Steelworkers
By Carl Bronski, October 31, 2009
Management at Vale Inco’s mine, mill and smelting complex in Sudbury, Ontario are expanding their attempts to restart production in a bid to break a 110-day-old strike against the company’s rapaci...
Québec Solidaire manifesto promotes nationalism and a “moral” capitalism
By Richard Dufour, October 31, 2009
Québec Solidaire recently issued a manifesto, “To End the Economic crisis: Go Beyond Capitalism?” whose title suggests that Québec Solidaire is questioning, if not radically opposing, the existi...
WSWS speaks to workers who exposed GM payoff to Canadian auto union
By Jerry White, October 30, 2009
The WSWS recently spoke with two auto workers at a General Motors transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario, who have been involved in campaigning against a secret agreement between GM and Canadian Auto ...
Toronto International Film Festival 2009—Part 5
Compassion, vision, genius
By Joanne Laurier, October 14, 2009
The poor throughout the world are neglected and abandoned, increasingly left by the authorities to their own devices. In an imaginative and sensitive fashion, some artists are beginning to concern the...
Workers expose GM payoff to Canadian auto union officials
By Carl Bronski and Keith Jones, October 14, 2009
Management at the General Motors transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario have been forced to annul a secret memorandum of understanding with local officials of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) aft...
Toronto International Film Festival 2009—Part 1
Polarization and protest
By David Walsh, September 30, 2009
To make useful sense of an event as large and contradictory as the Toronto film festival, which screened 273 feature films from 64 countries this year, is no easy matter.
Canadian Auto Workers offers concessions to Ford
By Carl Bronski, September 22, 2009
Negotiations between the Canadian Auto Workers and Ford Motor Company of Canada are set to re-start at the end of September after initial talks between the two broke down earlier this month. The compa...
Canada’s social democrats prop up Harper Conservative government
By Keith Jones, September 21, 2009
The trade union-supported New Democratic Party (NDP) voted Friday to prop up the minority federal Conservative government of Stephen Harper, Canada’s most right-wing government in living memory. Mor...
