WILDCAT STRIKES ARE THE WORST. At least that’s the way our rigged labour laws make them. But, maybe not so much in Alberta anymore. A recent decision by the Alberta Labour Board (ALB), meant to to punish a union for a wildcat strike, may encourage more wildcats.

THE RAIN DIDN’T STOP THEM. Hundreds of tenants, from two highrise appartments in west Toronto, ignored the afternoon rain on July 15 and filled the sidewalks in front of their buildings. They were on a rent strike and they wanted the whole world to know it.

WILE E. COYOTE has finally caught the Roadrunner: wages have finally caught up to inflation. It took a while

DEATH ON THE JOB can be an accident—or it can be a crime, like the crimes two companies in Quebec are accused of committing when three workers were killed, and five more injured, when their wood manufacturing operations in Beauceville, Quebec caught fire and exploded in September 2021.

Tenant organizing exposes the class conflict that underpins the 'housing crisis'  pushing people to pick a side. Which side are you on?

DO NOTHING and you’re in. It’s an approach to union membership that could rescue and rebuild the union movement say professors from the University of Waikato.

IT’S ILLEGAL but Eris Nyx doesn’t care. She’s happy to break the law and risk ten-years in jail to take direct action with Vancouver drug users to help them stay alive.

UNNECESSARY, UNWISE, UNDEMOCRATIC about sums up popular opposition to Doug Ford’s Bill 23, a plan to remove 7,400 acres of farmland and natural areas from protected Greenbelt lands in the Golden Horseshoe region of southern Ontario.* Popular opposition is nothing new for Ford these days. What is new is the makeup of up this opposition.

QUITTING IS NEVER an option for Janice Hobbs-Martell. She won’t quit until every single one of the 25,000 Ontario miners exposed to deadly McIntyre Powder receive and official apology for the way they were treated.

OUR PREMIERS ARE SOL. They can no longer cry poor. The truth is provinces are rolling in dough, flush with enough surplus cash to fully fund all the programs for people we want.