Labour - Unions

18/03/23
Author: 
Susan Rosenthal
Health care rally in Canada in 2016. (Council of Canadians/Flickr, CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Mar. 14, 2023

Ontario’s Bill 60 has delivered a death blow to public medicare. The provincial medical system will no longer operate as a public service but as a profit-taking business managed by the private sector.

18/03/23
Author: 
Chris Fairweather
Recent data suggests increased support for Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives among union members. To understand the appeal, unions need to reckon with their own history. Photo by Justin Tang, the Canadian Press.

Mar. 17, 2023

Labour and the right might seem like strange bedfellows, but a history with nationalism left that door wide open.

According to a recent poll by Abacus Data, Pierre Poilievre’s Conservatives are now the top choice of union members in Canada.

16/03/23
Author: 
Michael Ekers, Estair Van Wagner and Sarah Morales
Large swaths of private forest lands — especially on Vancouver Island — aren’t protected from harmful logging practices. Photo by TJ Watt.

Website editor: This is an important article about logging, climate change,  Indigenous rights and more in BC.

Mar. 16, 2023

A gap in government protection is undermining Indigenous rights and environmental protection.

15/03/23
Author: 
Andrew MacLeod
Premier David Eby announced approval for the Haisla Nation’s LNG project Tuesday. Chief Councillor Crystal Smith, in black dress and white shirt, said the decision ‘is about changing the course of history for my nation and Indigenous peoples everywhere.’ Photo via BC government.

Mar. 15, 2023

Haisla Nation welcomes green light, but critics sound warning on threat to province’s climate plan.

06/03/23
Author: 
Ben Parfitt
George Williams works at the Seaton Forest Products Ltd. mill near Smithers, a 24-person operation that makes a profit while creating more jobs with less raw material, challenging the assumption that bigger is better. Photo by Marty Clemens.

Feb. 6, 2023

The go-big era crushed local employers. Now Houston’s super-sized sawmill, like others, is closing. Who’s innovating a better path?

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