Canada
Canada’s Conservative government continuing persecution of Abousfian Abdelrazik
By Graham Beverley, June 5, 2009
Canada’s Conservative government has repeatedly introduced obstacles to Abousfian Abdelrazik returning home, in the process redefining the rights of Canadian citizenship and inadvertently raising qu...
Canada: Furor over soaring federal budget deficit
By Keith Jones, May 29, 2009
Canada’s Finance Minister has attributed the sharp rise in the projected federal budget deficit to plummeting tax revenues, increased Employment Insurance (EI) claims, and the cost of the auto indus...
D’Artagnan Collier visits striking city workers in Windsor, Ontario
By our reporter, May 26, 2009
SEP candidate for mayor in Detroit, D’Artagnan Collier, visited striking city workers in Windsor, Ontario, where he discussed the necessity of an international political struggle against capitalism ...
For the unity of Canadian and American workers
By Statement of D’Artagnan Collier, SEP candidate for Detroit mayor, May 26, 2009
D’Artagnan Collier distributed this statement to striking city workers in Windsor, Ontario.
Canada’s political elite spearheads attack on GM workers
By Keith Jones, May 22, 2009
Canada’s federal Conservative government and the Ontario Liberal government are spearheading the drive to gut what remains of the rights and benefits won by generations of auto workers through milit...
Canada’s Prime Minister inspects neocolonial occupation force in Afghanistan
By Graham Beverley, May 12, 2009
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper visited the Canadian Armed Forces’ base in Kandahar and other CAF positions in southern Afghanistan for ten hours last Thursday.
Canada’s ruling elite asserts its predatory Arctic ambitions
By Louis Girard, May 6, 2009
Mounting tensions between Canada and Russia over control of the immense natural resources of the Arctic and a potential transcontinental Arctic seaway, the Northwest Passage, have found expression in ...
Canadian Auto Workers union imposes draconian concessions on Chrysler workers
By Keith Jones, April 27, 2009
The Canadian Auto Workers union—acting in concert with the bosses of Chrysler and Fiat, the Obama administration, and the Canadian and Ontario governments—has granted concessions to Chrysler wort...
Thousands rally in Toronto against Liberals’ rescinding of pension guarantee
By a WSWS reporting team, April 25, 2009
Thousands rallied at the Ontario legislature Thursday afternoon to protest the Ontario Liberal government’s reneging on a three-decades-old guarantee to protect retirees’ pensions in the event the...
Defend pensions, jobs, and wages! No concessions!
Auto workers need a socialist strategy
By Statement of the Socialist Equality Party (Canada), April 23, 2009
The nationalist, pro-capitalist Canadian Auto Workers union has led auto workers into an impasse. To defend their jobs, wages and pensions, auto workers in Canada, no less than in the US, need a radic...
Canada: Conservative and Liberal governments gang up against auto workers
By Carl Bronski, April 18, 2009
Canadian Industry Minister Tony Clement has threatened to drive Chrysler into bankruptcy if the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union does not agree by April 30 to slash labour costs at the automaker’s ...
Ontario won’t abide by its pension guarantees to auto workers
By Carl Bronski, April 10, 2009
Ontario Premier Dalton McGuinty has warned that should General Motors or Chrysler declare bankruptcy his Liberal government will not honor a provincial guarantee to make up pension shortfalls, threate...
