On or before October 28, 2024 there will be a provincial election in Saskatchewan. After 17 years of Saskatchewan (Sask) Party rule, perhaps people in Saskatchewan have had enough.   The Sask Party was formed after the disastrous reign of Grant Devine and the Saskatchewan Conservative Party, which almost bankrupted the province. It was made up of both disillusioned conservatives and liberals. Suffice to say the Sask Party is just a regrouping of the Conservative Party.   The Sask Party under Scott Moe follows the Ford government in Ontario and the Smith government in Alberta in pri ..read more

In the 2020 BC election the BC Conservatives got less than 2% of the vote. The last time a Conservative was elected to the BC legislature was in 1956. (Seven years before the current leader was born.) In the interviewing 68 years occasionally an unhappy Liberal or Social Credit MLA has left their party to join the Conservatives, but this has never led to electoral success. Five MLA’s have left the sinking ship of the BC United (formally Liberal) party to join the BC Conservatives. This includes their new leader John Rustad who was a Liberal cabinet minister in the last Liberal BC government ..read more

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Fred Hahn, President of CUPE Ontario, and General Vice President on CUPE National’s Executive Board, is once again under attack for denouncing the genocide in Gaza, and standing with the Palestinian people against the violent apartheid state of Israel.   At a recent CUPE National Executive Board meeting, Fred was asked for his resignation by some members of the Board. This was after posting a video showing an Israeli athlete diving into images of bombs dropping in Gaza. It questioned why Israel was allowed to send athletes to the Olympics, while Russia was not. Fred refused to resign ..read more

Nearly 10,000 rail workers are on strike against the billionaire rail barons in Canada.   As of 12:01 midnight, Thursday, August 22 nearly 10,000 engineers, conductors and yard workers are on strike at CN and CPKC (formerly Canadian Pacific) across the country.   Every union and worker should defend and support this strike and oppose any attempt by the employers and politicians – both Liberal and Tory to strip these workers of their democratic right to strike for better safety conditions and wages.   The workers have been without a contract since December 2023 as CN and CPKC h ..read more

The political centre is collapsing. The left in France recently pulled victory from the jaws of defeat against the far-right National Rally (RN) despite huge pressure for the left to strategically support the discredited centre of the “macronie.”   Macron called a snap election when the RN made gains in the European parliament. The RN is a direct descendant of the explicitly fascist National Front of the Le Pen family. They have tried to reinvent themselves as a less openly fascist electoral choice, but they were formed from French Algierian colonial settlers and WWII Nazi collaborators ..read more

“In all armed struggles, there exists what we might call the point of no return. Almost always it is marked off by a huge and all-inclusive repression which engulfs all sectors of the colonial people.”   These are the words of revolutionary anti-colonial writer Frantz Fanon writing in The Wretched of the Earth in 1961, but it could just as well be about Gaza in 2024.   As a psychiatrist, Fanon believed that the violent struggle of the colonized for liberation was a kind of shock treatment that would “restore confidence to the colonized mind” and “overcome the paralyzing sense of ho ..read more

Sunday, July 21st was the hottest day ever recorded at 17.09 degrees Celsius, calculated by averaging thousands of global land and sea temperatures. But the next day broke the record again, registering 17.16 degrees.    Last year was the hottest year on record too, but this record seems likely to be broken this year as well. Such records will continue to be broken unless the world stops burning fossil fuels and starts taking concerted action to ensure a livable future for generations to come.   The greenhouse effect traps more of the sun's energy, raising temperatures but also ..read more

LCBO workers, members of OPSEU, ratified a new contract with the LCBO on July 21 after an historic two-week strike. The workers pushed back on the Ford government’s agenda to bust their union and completely privatize the LCBO.     Picket lines around the province were solid and the strike got huge support from the community and the labour movement. Both public and private sector union members helped shut down retail and warehouse operations foiling Ford’s promise to get LCBO products to retailers, despite the strike.   The strike exposed the privatization agenda of the Ford go ..read more