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  • The Harper Government: Toward A New Social Order? Ann Porter | May 22, 2006

    The election of Stephen Harper’s Conservative government on January 23, 2006 has significantly shifted the terms of the social policy debate ni Canada. While in some respects the Harper government … Keep reading »

  • Québec Debates: Tories’ Move to Prolong Afghanistan Intervention Richard Fidler | May 17, 2006

    The moment of truth arrives today for the Bloc Québécois, and for those on the left who have pledged their support to its strategy of shoring up Harper’s minority government. … Keep reading »

  • Palestine, Israeli Apartheid and the Canadian State | May 15, 2006

    Canada has a long and inglorious history of supporting the Israeli occupation of Palestine. This has included the indirect support of Canadians furthering the illegal colonial settlements in the Occupied … Keep reading »

  • Figuring out and Fighting Harper Cy Gonick and Greg Albo | May 8, 2006

    The January 2006 Federal election results in Canada unexpectedly yielded a minority Conservative Government. The ‘great moving right show’ is having yet another run. In Prime Minister Stephen Harper, Canada … Keep reading »

  • Who’s Getting It? The Canadian Mission in Afghanistan Richard Harding | April 21, 2006

    Since relieving American forces in Kandahar on 28 February 2006, Canada’s casualties in Afghanistan have come from a suicide bombing, an Armoured Personnel Carrier (APC) accident, an axe attack on … Keep reading »

  • Rewriting History: The CAW Turn Sam Gindin | April 6, 2006

    In response to criticism of the concessions made by the Canadian Auto Workers (CAW) at General Motors’s Oshawa facility this winter, the union has made four counter-arguments. First, no concessions … Keep reading »

  • Concessions in Oshawa: The End of an Era? Sam Gindin | March 22, 2006

    In the early 1980s General Motors workers in Canada refused to follow their American parent (UAW) in opening their collective agreement. The ensuing conflict eventually led to the Canadians breaking … Keep reading »

  • The End of a Political Fiction? Adam Hanieh | January 31, 2006

    Hamas’s landslide victory in the January 25 elections for the 132-seat Palestinian Legislative Council (PLC) is an unprecedented turning point for politics in both Palestine and the broader Middle East. … Keep reading »

  • A Real Alternative: The Canadian Election and Childcare Policy Rianne Mahon | January 19, 2006

    It’s a good thing that childcare has become a key issue in this Federal election campaign. Canadians need a well-developed network of early learning and childcare programs. It begins to … Keep reading »

  • The Anti-semitism of Iran’s President Khashayar Hooshiyar | December 20, 2005

    Stupidity or Deliberate Strategy? Since the death of Ayatollah Khomeini in 1989, Western governments became somewhat accustomed to the conciliatory gestures of both the Rafsanjani and Khatami administrations. The overtly … Keep reading »

  • The CAW’s Direction: Some Questions Sam Gindin | December 14, 2005

    A number of questions about the CAW’s general political and more specific electoral orientation are being asked both inside and outside the union. These are questions of importance to the … Keep reading »

  • Whose Healthcare?

    Challenging the Corporate Struggle to Rule Our System Hugh Armstrong, et al. Most Canadians reject a private health care system that is driven by the accumulation of profit, that limits … Keep reading »

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