According to CD columnist Alex Cosh, it is up to extra-parliamentary movements to hold the BC government’s feet to the fire on behalf of working people. Photo courtesy the Province…
That it took more than a year into a once-in-a-generation public health crisis for an NDP government to introduce such a basic provision as provincial sick pay is beyond disappointing.…
The Ku Klux Klan in Canada: A Century of Promoting Racism and Hate in the Peaceable Kingdom Allan Bartley Formac, 2020 Aside from accounts of the many acts of horrific,…
BC NDP leader John Horgan speaks during a campaign stop, October 12, 2020. Photo from Flickr. As widely predicted, British Columbia’s NDP government has renewed its mandate with a thumping…
Downtown Eastside (DTES), Vancouver, during the coronavirus pandemic, April 19, 2020. Photo from Flickr. After the spread of COVID-19 resulted in massive job losses, provincial governments across Canada have over…
UK Labour Party leadership hopeful Rebecca Long-Bailey looks on as Jeremy Corbyn delivers a speech. Still image from YouTube. As neoliberal centrists seek to use the British Labour Party’s disastrous…
Starting as an internet meme, the ‘OK boomer’ trend has exploded, from TikTok videos to merchandise including hoodies, iPhone cases and shower curtains. Image taken from Amazon.com. The “Ok Boomer”…
According to a report by the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives, fewer than 90 of the richest families in Canada own as much wealth as all of the people living…
While some observers hailed the federal government’s recent addition of the Neo-Nazi groups Blood & Honour (B&H) and Combat 18 (C18) to the national terrorist list as symbolically important, analysts…
Photo by Arnold Lim After making vague promises in its 2017 election platform to “modernize” provincial labour standards, the British Columbia Green Party recently blocked two important reforms to the…
Photo by Heydrienne (Flickr) Vancouver’s business community often bemoans affordability challenges faced by middle-class professionals in the upper echelons of the tech and corporate sectors. However, a more alarming consequence…
