Fighting climate change: Beyond Canada’s carbon tax
Photo by Kris Krüg/Flickr Free Transit Ottawa (FTO) organized a public meeting on March 18 on the theme “Fighting Climate Change: Beyond the Carbon Tax.” The event was co-sponsored by…
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Remembering Québec’s October Crisis
Troops on Montréal streets during the October Crisis, 1970. Photo courtesy the Toronto Star archives. 50 years ago this month, the federal government, invoking the War Measures Act—its first use…
NDP repudiates Quebec’s Bill 21 but falters in its explanation
NDP leader Jagmeet Singh delivers a stump speech in Sherbrooke, Quebec. Photo from Instagram. The NDP is fighting for its life in Quebec, where the Bloc Québécois supported by the…
Rethinking some dominant approaches to climate change
Photo by Fabrice Florin Climate change is the most visible, most threatening expression of a larger, planetary ecological crisis, the result of an economic system (capitalism) with an inherent growth…
Québec solidaire reviews the election and maps campaign on climate crisis
Photo by Jacques Boissinot/CP Québec solidaire will make climate change the party’s main political campaign issue in the coming year, both in and outside the National Assembly. The campaign will…
Venezuelan people are prime victims of Ottawa’s sanctions
Introduction “Since 2014,” writes a reporter in the online journal Venezuelanalysis, “Venezuela has been suffering from a deep economic crisis brought about by the drop in global oil prices, a…
Québec Solidaire Clarifies Its Support for Independence
Photo from Public Domain There were two main tasks on the agenda at the congress of the left party Québec solidaire (QS), meeting in Longueuil December 1-3. One was the…
Québec solidaire: No to an electoral pact with the PQ, Yes to a united front against austerity
Photo from Public Domain MONTRÉAL – As expected, the 500 delegates to the congress of Québec solidaire (QS), held here May 19-22, voted to work toward a fusion with Option…
Major decisions face Québec solidaire at its forthcoming congress
Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois • Photo by People’s Social Forum Quebec’s broad party of the left, Québec solidaire (QS), will open a four-day congress on May 19 in Montréal — the 12th…
Climate justice movement shakes Canada’s NDP
Illustration by Malcolm Mayes In a stunning rebuff to the party establishment, delegates to the federal convention of the New Democratic Party, meeting in Edmonton, Alberta April 8-10, voted to…
Canada’s election: Voters defeat Harper, but elect another Trudeau
Photo by Renegade98 Canada’s federal election October 19 was effectively a plebiscite of voter opinion on the decade-long rule by the ultra-neoliberal Conservatives (Tories) led by Stephen Harper. With some…
Quebec Left Debates Perspectives in Canada’s Federal Election
Photo by D’Arcy Norman Canada’s current federal election campaign is now at the half-way point in the lead-up to October 19. The three major parties are polling almost equally, with…
Québécois solidarity with Greece
Québec solidaire president Andrés Fontecilla speaks at Montréal rally in solidarity with Greece Greece’s battle for relief from its European financial creditors has attracted substantial sympathy and solidarity in Quebec,…
‘Je suis Charlie’? Not I. Here’s why…
Photo by Claude Truong-Ngoc Hundreds of thousands, perhaps millions, of people are taking to the streets in France and elsewhere in Europe and North America to protest the brutal murderous…
Bolivia to host 2015 meeting of social movements to fight climate change
Photo by Pete Souza Meeting in Havana December 14, the 13th summit of ALBA leaders endorsed a Bolivian proposal to host an international assembly of social movements in 2015 to…
Ecosocialism: Why Greens Must be Red and Reds Must be Green
Photo by Jialiang Gao Ian Angus discusses the need to build a movement based on socialist and ecological principles to counter and supplant the destructiveness of capitalism. Ian Angus is…
Campaign against Alberta tar sands given massive boost by Quebec public
Photo by Letartean Quebec’s movement against climate disaster has been given a major boost by Gabriel Nadeau-Dubois, the former student leader who just received the Governor General’s Literary Award for…
How Bolivia is leading the global fight against climate disaster
Photo by Joel Alvarez Bolivia goes to the polls next Sunday, October 12, in the country’s third national election since the victory of Evo Morales and his Movement Toward Socialism…
Scotland’s referendum: Some lessons for Quebec… and Canada
Garnotte, Le Devoir, September 20, 2014 Superficially, the 55-45 victory of the No in Scotland’s referendum on September 18 was a clear rejection of independence. The Yes forces won a…
Scotland’s referendum: Some lessons for Quebec… and Canada
Superficially, the 55-45 victory of the No in Scotland’s referendum on September 18 was a clear rejection of independence. The Yes forces won a majority only in the four poorest…