Canada
SEP candidates speak to workers in Toronto and Montreal
By our correspondent, November 3, 2008
The SEP candidates for president and vice president addressed meetings in Toronto and Montreal last week.
A letter on Canada, South Africa and deadly asbestos
November 1, 2008
The following letter was sent to the World Socialist Web Site in response to the article, “Canadian Government defends export of asbestos to poorer nations.”
Canadian Government defends export of asbestos to poorer nations
By John MacKay, October 30, 2008
The Canadian government has played a major role in keeping chrysotile asbestos off a United Nation’s list of dangerous substances.
Canada: As economic crisis deepens
Conservatives to press ahead with right-wing tax-cutting agenda
By Keith Jones, October 27, 2008
During their first 31 months in office, the Conservatives implemented massive tax cuts with the double aim of transferring wealth to big business and the most privileged sections of society and hobbli...
SEP candidates to speak in Canada
October 25, 2008
The SEP’s candidates for president and vice president will be speaking at meetings in Montreal and Toronto next week.
Canada: Toronto transit system avoids essential service designation
October 24, 2008
The Toronto municipal government has voted against a motion that would have stripped the city’s 9,000 transit workers of their right to strike.
Canada’s shame: the incarceration, torture, and exile of Abousfian Abdelrazik
By Guy Charron and Keith Jones, October 23, 2008
For more than five years, the Canadian state has victimized Abousfian Abdelrazik, a 46-year-old Canadian citizen of Sudanese origin, and, in so doing, negated and illegally redefined Canadians’ citi...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
October 21, 2008
The World Socialist Web Site invites workers and other readers to contribute to this regular feature.
Canada: Conservatives lose votes, but retain power
By Keith Jones, October 16, 2008
Canada’s Conservatives retained power in Tuesday’s federal election, winning 19 more seats than in the 2006 vote that brought them to office and ended 12 years of Liberal rule.
Canadian elections: Whose class interests does the Bloc Québécois defend?
By Guy Charron and Richard Dufour, October 15, 2008
The Bloc Québécois election campaign has been punctuated by demagogic appeals intended to give the party a progressive façade and mask the real class content of its politics.
Canada: Listeriosis epidemic continues—Liberal and Tory policies culpable
By John Mackay, October 14, 2008
The number of deaths linked to the listeriosis outbreak that originated at the Maple Leaf Foods meatpacking plant in Toronto has now risen to 20.
Canadian elections: Workers need new party
Reject “Anybody but Conservative” trap
By Keith Jones, October 13, 2008
The financial tsunami that has deluged Wall Street and banks and stock exchanges around the world underscores the urgency of the working class—English, French, and immigrant—constituting itself as...
