Canada
Rates of hospital-acquired infection rising in Canada
By John MacKay, December 29, 2008
A study, based on a survey of Canadian hospitals, has found that hospital-acquired infection rates continue to rise and that for want of funding, infection-control programs continue to fall well short...
Canadian Auto Workers union embraces “bailout” and further concessions
By Keith Jones, December 24, 2008
The leadership of the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) union has welcomed last week’s twin auto bailouts—that announced by the Bush administration and the “Canadian” bailout mounted by the federal ...
No concessions! No job cuts!
Canadian auto workers must join with US and Mexican workers to advance a socialist alternative
By the Socialist Equality Party, December 19, 2008
Seventy years ago auto workers in Canada and the US joined forces to found the UAW because they recognized that to fight the giant auto companies they needed to unify their struggles across the Canada...
Ontario auto sector report warns of catastrophic job losses
By Carl Bronski, December 19, 2008
An Ontario government report has warned that if the three Detroit-based auto companies ceased production more than half a million jobs would be lost in Canada.
Canada plunging into recession
By Keith Jones, December 17, 2008
Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper expressed shock Monday at the rapid deterioration of the Canadian economy and, in response to a reporter’s question, conceded that a depression could not be ex...
Washington urges Canada to wage war in Afghanistan beyond 2011
By John Mackay and Keith Jones, December 13, 2008
No credence should be given to the Conservative government’s pledge that Canada will have no more than a token military presence in Afghanistan after 2011, after having twice extended the counterins...
Canada in the week since the Conservatives’ constitutional coup
By Keith Jones, December 13, 2008
The ramifications of last week’s constitutional coup—in which the unelected and unaccountable governor-general shut down parliament so as to prevent the three parliamentary opposition parties from...
Quebec elections: Liberals win bare majority in record-low turnout
By Guy Charron, December 11, 2008
Monday’s Quebec election was marked by the lowest voter turnout in 80 years, giving the ruling Liberal Party a slim majority, and routing the right-wing ADQ.
Canada: Liberal-NDP coalition would be a tool of big business
By Richard Dufour, December 10, 2008
If a Liberal-NDP coalition government ever sees the light of day, it will press forward with the anti-worker and anti-democratic agenda pursued by its predecessors, the Harper Conservative government ...
Canada: “Progressive coalition” rallies fail to denounce constitutional coup
By Carl Bronski and Eric Marquis, December 10, 2008
At rallies in Toronto and Montreal last Saturday, supporters of a Liberal-NDP coalition government refused to denounce last week’s constitutional coup facilitated by the archaic office of the govern...
Québec solidaire: Quebec's “left” party in the orbit of the big business PQ
By Louis Girard and Guy Charron, December 8, 2008
Québec solidaire presents itself as the party of the “left” in Quebec. However, it in no way identifies itself with the working class, let alone socialism. Its central political axis is to put pr...
The Canadian auto “bailout”: CAW to impose sweeping concessions
By Carl Bronski, December 6, 2008
The Canadian units of Detroit's Big Three auto companies presented their restructuring plans to the Ontario and federal governments yesterday, involving the destruction of the jobs and living standard...
