The creation of three separate categories of Employment Insurance claimants is "a backward step" for the EI system in Canada, said FFAW/CAW President Earle McCurdy.

While a record number of forest fires rage across the northern part of the province, the government is closing smaller MNR offices for “efficiency.”

Rio Tinto's behaviour is failing to live up to the Olympic principles of fair play, friendship and solidarity.

Tax havens allow rich individuals, Canadian banks and resource companies to avoid paying billions of dollars in taxes each year.

Seven Conservative MPs who won the elections being contested under the Canada Elections Act filed motions to dismiss those legal challenges even before the court has a chance to consider them.

We cannot stand by while governments continue to violate our basic rights in the name of austerity and funding cuts that only fuel the growing gap between rich and poor.

It is completely unacceptable that the constitutional rights of Canadians were treated with such utter disregard. We can and must do better.

Canadian NGOs and labour unions insist that the WTO should resist efforts by countries like Japan, the EU and Canada to enlist its dispute procedures to defeat or discourage climate measures.

Formidable challenges face Canada’s labour movement. Meeting these requires organized labour to reclaim its historic role as the progressive voice of all working people.

The Commissioner of the Environment and Sustainable Development provides further evidence the federal government is failing to protect the environment and not meeting its climate change commitments.

Despite some good news about job creation in Canada last month, CAW President Ken Lewenza says he remains concerned that younger workers are not benefitting.

It's simply untrue Old Age Security is no longer sustainable.

The bargaining climate has worsened considerably since the federal budget, which slashes the size of the public service.

Thousands of Ontarians die needlessly due to medical errors, hospital-acquired infections and cost-cutting each year. Hospital cost-cutting planned by the Ontario government will make epidemic worse.

CUPW goes to court to oppose the appointment of a second arbitrator, after the first Harper government arbitrator appointed was ruled unqualified by the court.

British Columbians in 2035 will be facing a variety of climate-related challenges to a decent quality of life. BC should not get caught flat-footed, but instead the province needs to be proactive.

First Nation governments want to have an accurate understanding of the environmental impacts of building, operating and reclaiming the Zeus mine.

It is now the time to consider the "deglobalization" of trade and a planned "degrowth" of the economy.

Harper's strategy seems to be to blind us with numbers that just don't add up, then leave the stage without truly debating uncomfortable challenges to his free-trade ideology.

Changes to temporary foreign worker regulations will only increase abuse and worsen conditions for migrant workers.