Canada

Canada Post Workers On Strike

September 28, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. Resist! Canada, Postal Workers, Strikes, Worker Rights

Postal workers across the country have started their second strike action in less than a year after Public Works Minister, Joël Lightbound, announced changes to the Canada Post. Lightbound said he will be instructing Canada Post to introduce flexibilities in their delivery standards. The government is also authorizing the corporation to introduce community mailboxes to approximately four million more addresses ending door-to-door delivery in those areas. In response, the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW) began strike action. The union said the measures introduced by Lightbound could result in major job losses. CUPW and the Canada Post have been negotiating a new collective agreement for 20 months.

Recognition Of Palestine: What It Does, What It Doesn’t Do, And Why Now

September 23, 2025 Qassam Muaddi, Mondoweiss. Educate! Australia, Canada, Gaza, Israel, Palestine, Portugal, Sovereignty, United Kingdom (UK)

The United Kingdom, Canada, Portugal, and Australia officially recognized the State of Palestine in a series of separate but coordinated statements on Sunday, September 21. Other European and Western nations, including France, Belgium, New Zealand, and several other key allies of Israel, are expected to join the chorus of recognitions at today’s UN General Assembly meeting in New York. The summit is based on a joint Saudi-French initiative to revive a two-state solution called “the New York Declaration,” which was first issued at a conference on September 12. The conference was boycotted by the U.S, which opposed the summit.

The Women Are Rising

September 15, 2025 Judy Rebick, Rabble. Resist! Canada, Labor Movement, Women's Activism, Worker Rights and Jobs

On August 16 Air Canada flight attendants stood up against an employer that is hanging onto unpaid labour. On August 17, they defied back to work legislation from a government that didn’t even give them one day to stand up for their rights. And on September 6 in an unprecedented move, they rejected their union leadership’s compromises. And all these actions were almost unanimous among the workers. It’s been a long time since we have had such labour militancy and yet public opinion was massively on their side. What’s going on? For me it brought to mind another experience I had this summer, speaking to a conference of the Ontario Nurses Association (ONA). I’ve been active in the labour movement for decades and the nurses were never very present.

Understanding Alberta’s Expensive, Ideological War On Renewable Energy

September 8, 2025 Mitch Anderson, DeSmog. Educate! British Columbia, Canada, Energy, Renewable Energy

“This is what happens when ideology runs the power grid,” said Alberta Premier Danielle Smith in July 2023 when asked about the province’s sky-high electricity rates. Smith was attempting to cast blame on renewable energy policies of the former New Democratic Party government that had left office more than four years earlier. Just one month later the premier abruptly signed a moratorium on all wind and solar projects followed by additional onerous restrictions that eventually drove almost 11 gigawatts of proposed renewable electricity projects out of the province. Alberta currently has the highest electricity rates in the country by a wide margin while also producing almost eight times the emissions per kilowatt hour compared to Ontario.

British Columbia Public Service Workers Escalate Their Job Action

September 6, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble. Resist! BCGEU, British Columbia, Canada, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

BC public services workers expanded their picket lines to include 90 workers at the British Columbia Ministry of Finance in Vancouver on Thursday. The move came after the British Columbia General Employees’ Union (BCGEU), representing the more than 2,600 striking workers, said the provincial government has shown “no indication” of willingness to return to the bargaining table. Job action began on Tuesday, with picket lines going up in Prince George, Surrey and at sites across Victoria. Members of BCGEU held a strike vote from August 11 to 29. More than 92 per cent of voters had called for a strike. “Public service workers fight fires, staff emergency lines, and care for our most vulnerable. But these workers are facing an affordability crisis,” said BCGEU President Paul Finch.

‘Squat The City’ Is A Brilliant Organizer’s Handbook

August 30, 2025 Tom Sandborn, Rabble.ca. Organize! Arts, Book Review, Canada, Homelessness, Housing Justice

The great American organizer and songwriter Woody Guthrie, scrawled on his instrument the memorable phrase, “This machine kills fascists” during World War II. Norman Nawrocki, Vancouver born and Montreal based organizer, author, musician, dramatist and educator, would likely not make that grand or lethal a claim for his latest book, Squat the City: How To Use the Arts for Housing Justice. But he does want the book to serve as a tool, a weapon and an inspiration for people around the world who are facing our own era’s capitalist authoritarians and their murderous lust for profits and power. Nawrocki has spent most of his time as an organizer fighting for housing justice, and his book is a fond memoir of some of the many artistic projects he has co-created with precariously housed and unhoused people struggling against evictions and homelessness.

Indigenous Stewardship Is The Ignored Climate Solution

August 27, 2025 Robert Muggah, Intercontinental Cry. Create! Brazil, Canada, climate crisis, Environment, Indigenous Rights, Indigenous Stewardship

As the world stumbles toward climate tipping points, a growing body of scientific evidence suggests that among the most powerful defenders of nature are not satellites or carbon markets, but people – Indigenous peoples. From the rainforests of the Amazon to the boreal forests of Canada, Indigenous stewardship may be one of the most high-impact and cost-effective strategies to mitigate climate change, preserve biodiversity, and disrupt environmental crimes. Indigenous peoples occupy, use, or manage over a quarter of the Earth’s surface, including many of its most ecologically intact regions. These territories often overlap with areas of high carbon density and biodiversity richness.

Defying Back To Work Order, Flight Attendants Score Tentative Agreement

August 26, 2025 Jenny Brown, Labor Notes. Resist! Airlines, Canada, Flight Attendants, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

Flight attendants with Air Canada and subsidiary Air Canada Rouge walked out early August 17. As expected, the Liberal government ordered them back to work 12 hours later, declaring their strike unlawful. In a bold move with wide implications, the 10,000 striking flight attendants defied the order. They’d voted 99.7 percent to strike earlier this month. Their union, an affiliate of the Canadian Union of Public Employees, said the back-to-work order violated their right to strike, and CUPE president Mark Hancock ripped it up. “Members are reminded that it is not a criminal offence to remain on the picket line,” the union wrote in a bargaining update. “While union leaders may be subject to arrest, union members are not at risk of arrest for participating in the strike.

Air Canada Flight Attendants To Vote On New Tentative Agreement

August 23, 2025 Gabriela Calugay-Casuga, Rabble.ca. Resist! Canada, Flight Attendants, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Flight attendants with Air Canada are voting on whether to accept a new tentative agreement from their employer. After a high-profile strike, this tentative agreement marks a victory in the face of government intervention in labour negotiations. Represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees, flight attendants began a strike on August 16, the same day the employer initiated a lock-out. Negotiations had been ongoing since December 2024, with the parties being sent to conciliation and still not reaching a deal. CUPE made headlines when its membership decided to defy a back-to-work order issued by the Canada Industrial Relations Board. The order was delivered after Minister of Jobs and Families Patty Hadju invoked section 107 of the Canada Labour code which allows the Minister of Labour to take actions they believe would be likely to “secure industrial peace.”

Flight Attendants Defy Back To Work Order

August 19, 2025 Nick Seebruck, Rabble.ca. Resist! Airlines, Canada, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights

Labour leaders are condemning the federal government’s usage of Section 107 of the Canada Labour Code to end a strike by Air Canada flight attendants. The flight attendants, who are represented by the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) are seeking higher wages and an end to unpaid labour. Flight attendants are only paid as long as a plane is in the air. They are not paid for as long as a plane is on the ground, but are still expected to help passengers board and deplane, as well as cleaning the aircraft and preparing food and drinks. Both the union and Air Canada had been negotiating for months, but remained far apart in the lead up to the strike, which began on Friday, August 15.

Air Canada And The Erosion Of Collective Bargaining

August 17, 2025 Eric Wilkinson, Canadian Dimension. Resist! Canada, Flight Attendants, Strikes, Wages, Worker Rights and Jobs

On August 16, 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants walked off the job. Three days earlier, their union, the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE), had issued a 72-hour strike notice. In response, the airline served its own lockout notice, warning that it would cancel flights worldwide. The showdown came after months of stalled negotiations following the expiry of the attendants’ decade-old collective agreement in March. The strike did not last even a single day before the Carney government referred the parties to binding arbitration. A central issue in the negotiations is the flight attendants’ “ground pay.” Under the current system, they are only paid for time in the air, leaving the hours spent working before and after takeoff uncompensated.

Everyone Hates Airlines, Especially The Workers Set To Strike

August 11, 2025 Adam D. K. King, Portside. Resist! Airlines, Canada, Strikes, Unions, Worker Rights and Jobs

More than ten thousand Air Canada flight attendants could soon be on strike if a deal isn’t reached by August 16. In one of the strongest strike mandate votes in recent Canadian history, 99.7 percent of members in the Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) airline division opted to authorize a strike, with a turnout of 94.6 percent. With this overwhelming strike authorization in hand, the union is now headed back to the bargaining table to make one last push for a deal before picket lines go up. Flight attendants at Air Canada and its “leisure airline,” Air Canada Rouge, are fighting for an end to unpaid work and poverty wages at the country’s largest airline.

Zionists Accuse Yves Engler Of Genocide Denial

August 2, 2025 Ann Garrison, Black Agenda Report. Educate! Canada, Retaliation, Rwanda, Yves Engler, Zionism

Yves Engler is a Canadian activist, a candidate to lead Canada’s New Democratic Party , and the author of many books about Canadian foreign policy, including Canada and Africa, 300 years of Aid and Exploitation . Shortly after he announced his candidacy to lead Canada’s New Democratic Party, B’nai Brith produced a press release accusing him of denying the Genocide Against the Tutsi in Rwanda, which others call the Rwandan Genocide. I spoke to him this week. ANN GARRISON: Yves Engler, what is B'nai B'rith , and why do you think they have suddenly attacked you over something you wrote eight years ago about the Rwandan Genocide?

Human Rights Obligations At Canadian Embassies Dead On Arrival

August 1, 2025 Lital Khaikin, Rabble. Educate! Activism, Canada, Colombia, Exploitation, Human Rights, Mexico, Mining

Over the winter, hundreds of demonstrators in the city of Bucaramanga, Colombia denounced a Canadian gold mine owned by Aris Mining in the eastern Andean wetlands. They were rallied by the Comité Santurbán, a collective of activists protecting the vulnerable Santurbán watershed, known as a páramo, from industrial mining. Opposition has been ongoing for at least 16 years. But this past December, members of the Comité were designated by a group supporting the Canadian mine as “persona non grata.” In October, they were labelled as “enemies of progress in Santander” and accused of being responsible for “the deterioration of the country’s heritage”.

Remembering The Resistance That Helped Stop A Genocidal War

July 27, 2025 Peter G. Prontzos, Canadian Dimension. Organize! Anti-war Movement, Canada, Genocide, History, US Imperialism, Vietnam War

When the United States was carrying out its genocidal campaign against Vietnam in the 1960s and 70s, Canada welcomed tens of thousands of American war resisters to this country. Their actions, along with peace movements in the US and around the world, not only helped to end the war, but they may have even forced President Richard Nixon to abandon a plan to escalate the conflict with the use of tactical nuclear weapons. In light of the serious challenges we face today—including the wars in Gaza and Ukraine, rising poverty and inequality, and the deepening environmental crisis—it is more important than ever to remember, and draw inspiration from, the millions of Americans who resisted the US war in Vietnam, as well as in Cambodia and Laos. Just as importantly, we must remember the meaningful victories won by these peace movements.

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