Canada
To relief of Canada’s elite
Obama makes Ottawa his first foreign stop
By Keith Jones, February 21, 2009
Barack Obama visited Canada’s national capital, Ottawa, for six hours Thursday, his first foreign foray since becoming US president.
Three killed by snow plows in Montreal: privatization to blame
By Éric Marquis, February 19, 2009
On a single day at the beginning of this month, three people in Montreal died after being struck by snow plows. The deaths are the product of the municipal government’s partial privatization of snow...
Toronto the Good: It needs to push harder in some very uncomfortable places
By Jack Miller, February 18, 2009
Andrew Moodie’s new play Toronto the Good opened at Toronto’s Factory Theatre on January 31, offering audiences an intelligent, entertaining and lively evening of theatre.
Solidaire with whom?
Quebec’s new left party links hands with the political establishment
By Louis Girard, February 7, 2009
It has not taken long for Québec Solidaire, Quebec’s new self-avowed left-wing party, to reveal its true colours. In last month’s emergency session of the Quebec National Assembly, the party’s ...
Canada: State forces end to York University and Ottawa transit strikes
By John MacKay, February 6, 2009
The Canadian and Ontario governments intervened to force an end to two long-running strikes last week, in one case resorting to strikebreaking legislation and in the other using the threat of a back-t...
Canada: Liberals to support Conservative budget
By Keith Jones, January 29, 2009
Michael Ignatieff, the newly minted leader of Canada’s official opposition Liberals, announced yesterday that his party will vote for the federal budget presented by Stephen Harper’s minority Cons...
Canada: Vital lessons from last month’s political crisis
By Keith Jones, January 26, 2009
It is crucial that working people ponder the lessons of the political crisis that rocked Canada late last year, including of the Conservatives’ “constitutional coup.” So as to avoid defeat in an...
Canadian Auto Workers union lobbies for military contracts
By Carl Bronski, January 24, 2009
The reactionary character of the CAW’s “Buy Canadian” campaign is underscored by its recent appeals to the federal Conservative government to speed up military procurement and ensure that new eq...
Canadian Auto Workers union dismantles blockade at parts plant
By Carl Bronski, January 17, 2009
A blockade set up by members of Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) Local 1285 to prevent General Motors from removing its tooling equipment from SKD Automotive, a parts supplier in Brampton, Ontario, was dis...
Protests denounce Israeli assault on Gaza and Canadian government complicity
By Éric Marquis, January 13, 2009
Demonstrations were held in cities across Canada last Saturday to denounce the Israeli state’s onslaught against the subjugated Palestinian population of the Gaza Strip and the complicity of Washing...
Canada’s government and opposition trumpet Israel’s “right” to wage endless war in Gaza
By Carl Bronski and Keith Jones, January 10, 2009
Canada’s government, the official opposition Liberals, and most of the corporate media have given their full support to the Israeli state’s bloody onslaught against the Palestinian population in t...
Canada’s ‘newspaper of record’ calls for Canada to wage Afghan war beyond 2011
By John Mackay, December 31, 2008
The Globe and Mail is mounting a campaign for the country’s political elite to once again defy public sentiment and extend the Canadian Armed Forces’ intervention in Afghanistan beyond the current...
