Canada
Canada’s “constitutional coup” and the corporate media
By Keith Jones, December 6, 2008
Canada’s corporate media is either vocally supporting Thursday’s “constitutional coup”—the minority Conservative government and the unelected governor-general shut down parliament so as to p...
Canada’s constitutional coup: A warning to the working class
December 5, 2008
In a flagrant attack on parliamentary norms and democratic rights, Canada’s minority Conservative government, in conjunction with the unelected governor-general, has shut down the country’s nation...
Canada’s “putsch”: Oppose Conservative power-grab! No support to Liberal-NDP coalition!
By Keith Jones, December 4, 2008
Canada’s Conservative government is preparing to cling to power illegally, unleashing a constitutional crisis and inciting anti-Quebec chauvinism. In opposing the Conservatives’ attempt to retain ...
Canada’s “putsch”: Oppose Conservative power-grab! No support to Liberal-NDP coalition!
By Keith Jones, December 3, 2008
Canada’s Conservative government is preparing to cling to power illegally, unleashing a constitutional crisis and inciting anti-Quebec chauvinism. In opposing the Conservatives’ attempt to retain ...
Canada’s minority Conservative government on brink of collapse
By Richard Dufour and Keith Jones, December 2, 2008
Only weeks after winning a plurality of seats in the October 14 federal election, Canada’s minority Conservative government is fighting for its life. The three parliamentary opposition parties have...
Canada: Conservatives provide austerity to workers, aid to banks
By Keith Jones, November 29, 2008
The Conservative government’s fall update on the Canadian economy had two central themes—the need for austerity in public spending and for the government to be given new powers to come to the aid ...
Quebec elections: Unprecedented alienation from big business parties
By Keith Jones, November 21, 2008
Liberal Premier Jean Charest and his Parti Québécois rival, Pauline Marois, have engaged in a cynical debate about who responsible for the dramatic erosion of Quebec’s universal, public health car...
Canadian Auto Workers union presses for bailout of auto bosses
By Keith Jones, November 19, 2008
As in the US, Canada’s elite intends to make auto workers pay for the current industry crisis through massive job cuts and concessions, whether imposed under a “bailout” or by the bankruptcy cou...
Strike cancels classes at Toronto’s York University
By our reporting team, November 15, 2008
Having forced 3,500 teachers’ assistants and contract faculty on strike, York University is pressing for the contract dispute to be resolved by binding arbitration.
Workers Struggles: The Americas
November 11, 2008
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Layoffs and plant closures ravage Canada’s auto industry
By Carl Bronski, November 8, 2008
In the face of a wave of auto industry plant closures and layoffs, the Canadian Auto Workers union is advocating not a struggle to defend its members’ jobs and wages, but rather a bailout package th...
Quebec election called for December 8
By Keith Jones, November 7, 2008
Quebec’s governing Liberals are hoping to rally big business behind their drive for a majority government capable of implementing “difficult”—i.e., unpopular—policy changes.
