Canada
Striking Toronto city workers: management is “after everything”
By a WSWS reporting team, June 25, 2009
Twenty-four thousand City of Toronto inside and outside workers are resisting a concerted drive on the part of the economic and political elite of Canada’s wealthiest city to impose major contract c...
Municipal workers resist concession demands in Windsor, Ontario
By Jerry White, June 25, 2009
Eighteen hundred city workers in Windsor, Ontario, have entered their 11th week on strike.
Canada: Dziekanski inquiry derailed by new evidence of police wrongdoing
By Carl Bronski, June 25, 2009
The public inquiry into the tasering to death of Robert Dziekanski by four members of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police was abruptly suspended last Friday after new evidence of police wrongdoing came ...
Toronto city workers strike against sweeping concession demands
By Keith Jones, June 23, 2009
More than 24,000 Toronto municipal workers launched strike action shortly after midnight Sunday to oppose the city’s sweeping concession demands.
“It’s going to be an absolute bloodbath”
Obama, Harper force bankruptcy on auto parts industry
By Tom Eley, June 20, 2009
The Obama Auto Task Force has followed the Canadian government’s decision to turn down assistance to the auto parts industry. The resulting collapse will result in tens of thousands of layoffs in Mi...
Canada: Cover-up of RCMP murder of immigrant worker unravels
By Jack Miller and Keith Jones, June 20, 2009
The British Columbia Supreme Court has ruled that a public inquiry into the police killing of Polish immigrant Robert Dziekanski has the legal authority to condemn the conduct of the four Royal Canadi...
Canada: RCMP tried to suppress video of fatal tasering of Dziekanski
By Jack Miller and Keith Jones, June 20, 2009
Had Vancouver International Airport authorities and the police had their way, the video recording that documents the police murder of Robert Dziekanski would never have become public knowledge.
Canada: Liberals wage “phony” war on Conservative government
By Keith Jones, June 17, 2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper had two private meetings with Michael Ignatieff, the leader of the Liberal Official Opposition, yesterday in an attempt to stave off the defeat of his Conservati...
Mounting Canada-US frictions over “Buy American” provisions of stimulus package
By Keith Jones, June 16, 2009
Canadian business organizations and political leaders have made repeated warnings that the “Buy American” provisions of the Obama administration’s economic stimulus package could result in a gov...
Striking city workers hold rally in Windsor, Ontario
By Joe Kishore, June 15, 2009
Striking city workers in Windsor, Ontario held a rally last week. D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for mayor in nearby Detroit, Michigan, visited the strikers, calling for the unity of the Canadian...
Canada: Federal Court orders repatriation of torture victim Abousfian Abdelrazik
By Graham Beverly, June 12, 2009
Canada’s Federal Court has ruled that the Canadian government has repeatedly violated Abousifian Abdelrazik’s constitutionally-guaranteed right to return to Canada and ordered the Canadian governm...
Montreal: Community boycott forces suspension of inquest into police murder of immigrant youth
By Louis Girard, June 6, 2009
One day after the beginning of a coroner’s inquest into the police killing of 18 year-old Freddy Villanueva, Judge Robert Sansfaçon ordered the proceedings suspended indefinitely.
