Travis Olson, a 22-year-old from Camrose, Alta., is worried that his pension is at risk from climate breakdown and has joined three other young people and two law firms to hold the Canada Pension Plan accountable.
Canada’s long codependent economic relationship with the United States has abruptly and involuntarily ended. The election of a tariff-obsessed, unpredictable, incompetent, crony capitalist autocratic Donald Trump administration requires Canada to rethink its economic future.
Sectoral bargaining could level the playing field for today’s employees.
For more than 30 years, unions in B.C. have been fighting for sectoral bargaining — a process to bring workers and employers from similar businesses to a single negotiating table.
Instead of organizing hundreds of fast-food outlets, for example, one model of sectoral bargaining could require representatives of the businesses and workers to negotiate a framework agreement for the industry.
Interview with Bashir Abu-Manneh & Hoda Mitwally on how US activists can more effectively support Palestinians. Two years after Oct 7, public outrage against Israel is widespread, yet grassroots solidarity nowhere near as powerful as it needs to be.
While Trump’s ceasefire plan might provide relief from Israel’s genocidal onslaught, Gaza has been decimated, and the proposed deal would codify a vastly deteriorated situation for millions of Palestinians.
On 22 September, half a million workers, students and solidarity activists mobilised in more than 80 cities across Italy under the slogan “Blocchiamo Tutto” (Let’s block everything). The Unione Sindacale di Base (USB), which initiated the action, has called for “the immediate break-off of relations with the terrorist state of Israel”.
