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Big business is the most important barrier to fairness for fossil fuel workers
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Quebec is cutting arts funding. Artists are fighting back.
You could hear the music from blocks away. More than a thousand dancers, painters, clowns, musicians, poets, and other cultural workers came out in Montreal…
What next for electoral reform in Canada in the wake of M-86?
No consensus. That’s how Justin Trudeau explained his decision to abandon the electoral reform file in 2017, following one of the most extensive consultation processes…
L’Ontario a perdu 5 000 enseignants depuis 2018
Depuis un certain temps, le financement de l’éducation en Ontario ressemble au jeu des gobelets. En 2019, le gouvernement a annoncé que la taille moyenne…
Le financement principal de l’éducation de l’Ontario a chuté de 1 500 $ par élève depuis 2018
Les dépenses gouvernementales consacrées aux services publics régressent en Ontario. La transparence aussi. Je ne parle pas ici des transactions foncières obscures de la Ceinture…
Conflict as the result of intolerable pain
The disastrous human losses in Israel and Gaza are not the consequences of justifiable war or unjustifiable terrorism. They are the inevitable outcome of generations…
Ontario has lost 5,000 classroom educators since 2018
Education funding in Ontario has been a bit of a shell game for some time. Back in 2019, the government announced that the average class…
Ontario’s Core Education Funding has dropped by $1,500 per student since 2018
Government spending on public services is on the decline in Ontario. And so is transparency. I’m not referring to the murky Greenbelt land deals that…
Sarah Jama is fighting for more than just the keffiyeh
On March 7, 2024, Ontario Speaker of the House Ted Arnott unilaterally banned the Palestinian keffiyeh in the legislative assembly as a “political statement,” a…
Penicillin the right prescription for Canada in pandemic agreement negotiations
Instead of undermining technology transfer provisions, Canada once played a key role in disseminating breakthrough medical technology
Ecuadorians reject corporate courts in national referendums
On April 21, the Ecuadorian people resoundingly rejected their government’s plan to bring the country back under the thumb of international investment arbitration. The vote…
Are we spending enough on climate?
The following is a re-print of the March 2024 edition of Shift Storm, the CCPA’s monthly newsletter which focuses on the intersection of work and…
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