Canada
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...
Canada’s social democrats offer lifeline to Conservative government
By Keith Jones, September 15, 2009
The NDP, Canada’s social democratic party, is offering a lifeline to the minority Conservative government of Stephen Harper under conditions where the other opposition parties have indicated they wi...
Vale Inco strike: Labour bureaucrats promote nationalism
By Carl Bronski, September 10, 2009
As the strike at mining giant Vale Inco enters its ninth week, union leaders continue to promote the illusion that the attacks launched by the transnational corporation on the 3,300 striking workers i...
Interview with striking Vale Inco workers
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, September 10, 2009
The WSWS interviewed striking Vale Inco workers in Port Colborne, Ontario, on Tuesday.
Canada’s Conservative government names NDP Premier its US ambassador
By Keith Jones, September 2, 2009
Canada’s Conservative government appointed veteran social democrat Gary Doer as its ambassador to the US just two weeks after he was feted by the NDP for exemplifying the party’s “pragmatic”...
Canada: Vale Inco unveils strikebreaking operation
By Carl Bronski, September 1, 2009
As 3,100 striking miners in Sudbury, Ontario enter their eighth week on the picket lines, mining giant Vale Inco has announced plans to resume production in what would be an unprecedented strikebreaki...
Workers Struggles: The Americas
August 25, 2009
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Canada: Federal Court of Appeal upholds order to repatriate Guantánamo detainee Omar Khadr
By Graham Beverley, August 21, 2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has signalled that his Conservative government will once again flout a court decision ordering it to seek the repatriation of Guantánamo Bay detainee and Canadi...
Calls for spending cuts and tax hikes in wake of Toronto municipal strike
By Carl Bronski, August 20, 2009
No sooner had striking City of Toronto workers ratified new collective agreements than big business and the press stepped up their campaign for the working class to pay for the city’s looming budget...
NAFTA summit papers over divisions between US, Mexico and Canada
By Rafael Azul, August 14, 2009
This week’s NAFTA summit in Guadalajara ended without any agreement on confronting the deep economic crisis that has swept the North American continent.
Toronto city workers no-concession struggle in danger
By Keith Jones, July 29, 2009
The Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) has moved to shut down a five week “no concessions” strike by 24,000 City of Toronto inside and outside municipal workers.
“The union is not being responsible to its members”
Interviews with striking Toronto municipal workers
By a WSWS reporting team, July 27, 2009
As the strike has progressed, more and more workers have rejected their leadership’s gag order and spoken out, sometimes quite bitterly, about their experiences on the picket line.
