Canada

Activists push issues of peace to forefront in Canadian election

September 2, 2021 By People’s Voice

While most political parties do backflips to avoid discussing peace and militarism, there is a strengthening peace movement which is working to bring these issues into Canada's election debate.

Organizing is a necessity: A political history of the Hamilton Unemployed Union

August 24, 2021 By Terry Fraser And Sam Hammond

In the summer of 1981, Canada’s economy was in a recession, with unemployment hitting 11%. It didn't seem like the best time to try and organizer workers.

Thousands of Indigenous children perished in ‘genocide boarding schools’

August 12, 2021 By Albert Bender

Hunger. Starvation. Beatings. Ill-clothed in winter. Forbidden to speak their Native tongues. Sexual predators roaming the dormitory halls. Such was the lot of thousands of Indigenous children in the Indian boarding school era.

Steelworker official: Jury still out on U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade pact

August 9, 2021 By Mark Gruenberg

Part of the problem is the enormity of the task of freeing Mexican workers from the control of corporate-dominated unions.

Oh, Canada…Home and Native land?

June 29, 2021 By Greg Kearney

Evidence piles up of genocide against Native children in Canada. People's World cartoonist Greg Kearney weighs in.