Practically every hospital in Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley has been subject to at least one outbreak, and dozens of patients have died. In all, hundreds of hospital staff and patients alike have been infected.
Amazon workers are brutally exploited, but the unionization drive launched by the corporatist Teamsters has nothing to do with mobilizing them to put an end to poverty wages and a punishing, injury-inducing work regime.
Until the Delta-driven fourth pandemic wave erupted in early August, the Northwest Territories, which covers much of Canada’s far north, had largely escaped the ravages of COVID-19.
The poorly-paid grocery workers are outraged over poverty wages, the company’s erratic scheduling practices and the virtual absence of COVID-19 protections in the workplace.
The failure of any of the major parties to present a viable plan to tackle climate change is bound up with their subordination of environmental policies to the prerogative of big business and the financial oligarchy.
The reckless policies now being enforced by parties of all political stripes have been facilitated by the federal Liberal government led by Justin Trudeau, which declared in its throne speech last fall that all coronavirus-related measures must be “short-term” and implemented at the “local” level, i.e., totally ineffectual.
Around 1,000 residents in Lytton, a village northeast of Vancouver, were forced to flee their homes with no notice after a wildfire triggered by the unprecedented heat engulfed the village, destroying 90 percent of its buildings.
Yesterday marked one month since 2,450 workers at Vale’s Sudbury, Ontario mining and processing complex launched strike action.
The outbreak at the Mary River Mine in Canada’s far north has killed at least one miner and is directly linked to hundreds of cases in the south.
The discovery of hundreds of unmarked graves on the grounds of the Marieval Indian Residential School sheds light, yet again, on Canadian capitalism’s brutal, inhumane treatment of the indigenous population.
The federal Liberal government and corporatist trade unions stand full-square behind the aggressive back-to-work/back-to-school drive now being implemented by provincial governments of all political stripes across Canada.
Vale workers, now in their third week of strike action, massively rejected the transnational mining giant’s latest concessions-filled offer.
The military used its deployment to long-term care homes overwhelmed by the pandemic to spy on and test out methods of repression against the Canadian population.
Dr. Mateus stressed COVID-19 is a global phenomenon that can only be combatted by means of an internationally-coordinated response led by the working class.
A year on, close to 4,000 residents of Ontario long-term care homes have died from the virus, as well as 11 staff members.
While working people have confronted widespread impoverishment, illness and death, Canada’s capitalist elite has seen its wealth soar during the pandemic.
The rapid rise in infections is the direct product of the NDP government’s reckless open economy/open schools policy, which has created an ideal environment for the spread of new, more infectious COVID-19 variants.
The meeting featured an international panel of speakers, who explained the committee’s demands for the closure of schools and all nonessential production, and the provision of full wages to all affected workers so they can shelter at home, to stop the spread of the deadly virus.
Ontario Premier Doug Ford announced a totally ineffectual stay-at-home order yesterday in response to growing warnings from doctors that the pandemic’s third wave has brought the province’s hospitals to the brink of collapse.
Despite evidence showing that only frontline health care workers have filed more COVID-19-related compensation claims than teachers, the BC Teachers’ Federation supports the NDP government in insisting on in-class instruction.
