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Expansion of public transportation must be central to a just transition, but the subject has been almost entirely missing from the election discussion. Keep reading »

Creating Good Jobs, Making Sustainable Products, Challenging Climate Change GM’s bosses are closing the auto plant in Oshawa but workers want to repurpose it to create good jobs and produce green … Watch video »

After 11 days of an indigenous-led national general strike and state repression, an agreement was achieved by both parties on the night of October 13th #SOSEcuador Keep reading »

An excerpt from Holocaust to Resistance: My Journey by Suzanne Berliner Weiss (pp. 45-47). Weiss’s book, released this month by Fernwood Publishers, tells of her eight decades of engagement with … Keep reading »

For starters, I must say that the present juncture hasn’t been particularly harsh for me. It must have been luck, but the right bus has always turned up to get … Keep reading »

Seven years ago, we owned General Motors (GM). With 49,000 autoworkers walking pickets to finally end the concessions, it’s mind-boggling to remember that the US Treasury owned GM for three years – and managed to do virtually nothing to benefit the working class with it. Keep reading »

Review of Sidewalk Labs’ plans for Toronto’s waterfront and some of the reasons to say no to corporate control and to insist instead, on a democratic and citizen driven process. Keep reading »

The question of identity has become urgent for activism in the West though the issue has been important in many other parts of the world as well. Political identities form … Watch video »

For several months now the SNC-Lavalin saga has continued to unfold, although it has been displaced somewhat in the current election campaign. You will recall the small storm that arose … Keep reading »

A lively crowd of Unifor Local 222 members and retirees came out October 7 to show their solidarity with the workers who are taking on General Motors in the US. Keep reading »

“At the moment we’re looking at a people lacking the control that allows them to function as a society – water, the freedom to travel, the basic right to safety,” … Keep reading »

A Step Toward Reconciliation? Announced last spring, Ontario’s new resource revenue sharing (RRS) agreements with three northern First Nations councils are set to come into effect this fall. The agreements were … Keep reading »