The Guardian • Canada
Grave containing 215 Indigenous children evidence of Canadian residential school genocide
Indigenous communities across Canada and throughout North America are reeling following the disclosure last week that the remains of at least 215 children, some as young as three years old, have been found buried in a mass unmarked grave.
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Issue #2004
Fighter jets or green electricity
On 28th March, the government came clean on one of its’ worst kept secrets of the decade when it announced its decision (again) to purchase...
Read moreSmall nuclear reactors still have huge nuclear problems
Ottawa and four provinces have jumped on the small modular nuclear reactor (SMNR) bandwagon.
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Issue #2007
Canada: 90th anniversary of the Colonial Building Riot provides a lesson on class conflict and organising
In the early 1930s, the Dominion of Newfoundland was in a deep economic crisis along with many other parts of the capitalist world in the...
Read moreFree Meng campaign marks 1000 days of incarceration
Thursday, August 26, 2021, marked the 1000th day of unjust incarceration by the Trudeau government of Meng Wanzhou.
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Issue #2013
Class struggle and mutual aid: solidarity or charity?
Throughout many decades of class struggle, socialists and other radicals have long understood the importance of providing assistance to working people. While our focus is...
Read moreThe “end of history” and the struggle against liquidation
History was proclaimed “ended” when, between 1989 and 1991, socialism was overthrown in the former Soviet Union and Eastern Europe.
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Issue #2015
Canada: Dignity in death is no cure for indignity in life
At the end of April, CTV published a news item about a 31-year-old Toronto woman who was nearing final approval for a medically assisted death....
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Issue #2054
Wildfires hit Canada
Nearly a million acres have been destroyed in wildfires across the western Canadian province of Alberta, with more than 30,000 people forced to evacuate, and...
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Issue #2062
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SYRIA: The Syrians gave a green light last week for the United Nations to use a key crossing from Turkey to the country’s rebel-held north-west...
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Issue #2063
GLOBAL BRIEFS
KENYA: Police have been ordered not to report deaths amid protests against the rising cost of living. While police in Kenya have long been accused...
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Issue #1982
Victory for China: Meng returns home
Meng Wanzhou, Chief Financial Officer (CFO) of Chinese tech company Huawei, has been released from detention after being held illegally in Canada for over 1000 days.
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Issue #2067
GLOBAL BRIEFS
SPAIN: Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s candidate for the speaker of the Congress of Deputies won the vote for the position in Sanchez’s first trial in...
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