Did we cause a kinder Canada?
It was last year on Canada Day that Babel-on-the-Bay asked if we could consider a kinder Canada. We never said it was based on getting rid of Mr. Harper and…
July 2016
mississauga library workers vote overwhelmingly to strike
Yesterday, the members of CUPE Local 1989, Mississauga Library Workers Union, voted overwhelmingly to strike. Amid massive turnout in three separate meetings, 96% of the members in attendance said they…
Celebrating Our First Harper-Free Canada Day
It was a beautiful blue summer day in the Great White North. The kind I dream about all year round.A chance to get away from the city, feel the clean…
Building A Country
When Barack Obama addressed Parliament two days ago, he recalled what the other Prime Minister Trudeau said about building a country:A country, after all, is not something you build as…
Dirty politics takes its toll
By now you probably have already heard that the CEO of Collus, Ed Houghton, has ‘resigned’ after 39 years of excellent, dedicated service to this community. It’s a huge loss…
On came the Newfoundlanders…
"On came the Newfoundlanders, a great body of men, but the fire intensified and they were wiped out in front of my eyes."Private F.H. Cameron, 1st battalion, the King's Own…
How ‘Students For Trump’ Terrorized Portland State University (repost)
When Portland State University student Alyssa Pagan woke up on Friday, April 8, she found that she had 500 updates on her phone. Read the rest of this post on…
Canada now the second biggest arms exporter to Middle East, data show Add to … (repost)
Canada has soared in global rankings to become the second biggest arms dealer to the Middle East on the strength of its massive sale of combat vehicles to Saudi Arabia,…
Ottawa won’t say if former Ukrainian prime minister is now a Canadian citizen, as Russian media report
PHOTOS: Former Ukrainian prime minister Arseniy Yatsenyuk and former Canadian PM Stephen Harper in their July 13, 2015, news conference announcing a Canada-Ukraine free trade agreement. (Screen shot of CBC…
Trois militants péquistes reçus par le Front national (repost)
Trois militants du Parti québécois (PQ) se sont rendus en France pour présenter un atelier anti-multiculturalisme et «?élaborer des stratégies d’action?» lors d’un congrès du Front national, un parti français…
Free Kara Wild (repost)
Kara Wild is an artist, comrade and resilient force of nature, currently being detained in France for her alleged participation in a protest against draconian labor reforms and police repression.…
Class Struggle in the Parasite States (repost)
and later Manifest-Communist Working Group , and author of Det Globale Perspektiv (the Global Perspective), awaiting publication in English. Read the rest of this post on the original site at…
new york’s most feminist zine shop just opened in a laundromat (repost)
There is no shortage of either laundromats or sex stores in New York City, but there is definitely a shortage of good laundromat sex stores. Combining the two might sound…