Canada
Anxious to thwart cross-border struggle
CAW rams through concessions at Ford Canada
By Keith Jones, November 3, 2009
Fearing the impact that the resistance of US Ford workers would have on workers in Canada, the CAW leadership hastened to conclude the terms of its latest surrender with the Detroit-based auto maker.
Canada: Vale Inco continues provocations against Steelworkers
By Carl Bronski, October 31, 2009
Management at Vale Inco’s mine, mill and smelting complex in Sudbury, Ontario are expanding their attempts to restart production in a bid to break a 110-day-old strike against the company’s rapaci...
Québec Solidaire manifesto promotes nationalism and a “moral” capitalism
By Richard Dufour, October 31, 2009
Québec Solidaire recently issued a manifesto, “To End the Economic crisis: Go Beyond Capitalism?” whose title suggests that Québec Solidaire is questioning, if not radically opposing, the existi...
WSWS speaks to workers who exposed GM payoff to Canadian auto union
By Jerry White, October 30, 2009
The WSWS recently spoke with two auto workers at a General Motors transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario, who have been involved in campaigning against a secret agreement between GM and Canadian Auto ...
Toronto International Film Festival 2009—Part 5
Compassion, vision, genius
By Joanne Laurier, October 14, 2009
The poor throughout the world are neglected and abandoned, increasingly left by the authorities to their own devices. In an imaginative and sensitive fashion, some artists are beginning to concern the...
Workers expose GM payoff to Canadian auto union officials
By Carl Bronski and Keith Jones, October 14, 2009
Management at the General Motors transmission plant in Windsor, Ontario have been forced to annul a secret memorandum of understanding with local officials of the Canadian Auto Workers union (CAW) aft...
Toronto International Film Festival 2009—Part 1
Polarization and protest
By David Walsh, September 30, 2009
To make useful sense of an event as large and contradictory as the Toronto film festival, which screened 273 feature films from 64 countries this year, is no easy matter.
Canadian Auto Workers offers concessions to Ford
By Carl Bronski, September 22, 2009
Negotiations between the Canadian Auto Workers and Ford Motor Company of Canada are set to re-start at the end of September after initial talks between the two broke down earlier this month. The compa...
Canada’s social democrats prop up Harper Conservative government
By Keith Jones, September 21, 2009
The trade union-supported New Democratic Party (NDP) voted Friday to prop up the minority federal Conservative government of Stephen Harper, Canada’s most right-wing government in living memory. Mor...
Canada’s social democrats offer lifeline to Conservative government
By Keith Jones, September 15, 2009
The NDP, Canada’s social democratic party, is offering a lifeline to the minority Conservative government of Stephen Harper under conditions where the other opposition parties have indicated they wi...
Vale Inco strike: Labour bureaucrats promote nationalism
By Carl Bronski, September 10, 2009
As the strike at mining giant Vale Inco enters its ninth week, union leaders continue to promote the illusion that the attacks launched by the transnational corporation on the 3,300 striking workers i...
Interview with striking Vale Inco workers
By David Walsh and Joanne Laurier, September 10, 2009
The WSWS interviewed striking Vale Inco workers in Port Colborne, Ontario, on Tuesday.
