Apr 19 2013
Canada's anemic economic growth is a result, in large part, of self-inflicted wounds.
Apr 19 2013
We believe that the phase-out of the labour fund tax credit is an attack by the Conservative government on the workers of Québec.
Apr 17 2013
The plan does not include any distinct actions to remedy persistent low water levels on Lakes Michigan and Huron, including Georgian Bay, which are significantly lower than the other Great Lakes.
Apr 17 2013
Medicare will not survive the withdrawal of the guardian of national standards and universal access to care for all Canadians regardless of where they live.
Apr 15 2013
By the end of September 2010, student debt exceeded nearly $15 billion and growing - higher than the debt of some provinces.
Apr 15 2013
Since the beginning of the year, six special Working Groups have been holding multiple meetings to develop a plan of action for the formation of the new union.
Apr 12 2013
For over five years now the Coalition has been pushing an agenda of mining reforms in Quebec and things are shifting dramatically putting industry on the defensive.
Apr 12 2013
The United Steelworkers (USW) is legally challenging the federal government's approval for RBC and/or iGate to hire temporary foreign workers to replace existing employees.
Apr 12 2013
The Neighbourhood Immigrant Settlement Worker (NISW) is one of the programs established by the Province of Manitoba to help newcomers adjust to life in Canada.
Apr 10 2013
The Conference Board is missing an amazing opportunity to involve civil society organizations, new Canadians, entrepreneurs and young farmers in their food strategy development.
Apr 10 2013
A report released today by our BC office shows how an understaffed public sector (the smallest in Canada) has left British Columbians vulnerable.
Apr 10 2013
The RBC case is just the latest example of a shameless system without controls, where corporations only do what is right for them.
Apr 8 2013
After four austerity budgets and lots of hide and seek, there are finally some answers about what services federal departments are going to cut.
Apr 8 2013
We are adamantly opposed to a policy that seeks to undermine our Canadian standard of living while continuing to expose new arrivals to our shores with a new form of exploitation.
Apr 5 2013
We now have clear evidence there were no excessive delays and absolutely no need to gut Canada's environmental protection laws, which took us 35 years to build.
Apr 5 2013
The CAW will be forming a new union with the Communications, Energy and Paperworkers Union, with a founding convention set for Labour Day weekend in Toronto.
Apr 3 2013
We think a worthwhile National Food Policy needs to address hunger, fisheries, Indigenous and labour rights, children, local food, Northern issues and more. Don't you?
Apr 3 2013
In this year's speakers series Ahnan and Jennifer Moore discuss how they are advocating for just and sustainable development in their communities.
Apr 3 2013
A case being heard today by the National Energy Board will determine whether Canadian oil will continue to flow to the U.S. when a Canadian refinery is being starved for supply.
Apr 1 2013
On the horizon is a legislative attack on union security, which will seek to introduce regressive U.S.-style anti-labour legislation in Canada for the first time.
Mar 29 2013
Unions are about fairness: workplace fairness; economic fairness; opportunity fairness; political fairness; and democratic fairness. Unions promote fairness for all Canadians.
Mar 29 2013
Our newest study, co-published with the Wilderness Committee, shows how "zero waste" policies would protect BC's environment and climate and create jobs.
Mar 29 2013
The New Brunswick government is the latest provincial government to reverse the corporate tax cuts that the federal Conservative government had pressed provinces to make.
Mar 27 2013
Nine years ago, the people across Canada started welcoming a new generation of U.S. soldiers of conscience from another illegal and immoral U.S. war.
Mar 27 2013
This is an important day as the start-up of this wind turbine marks an environmental milestone for our union - this is the first union owned and operated wind turbine in Canada
Mar 27 2013
The announcement doesn't address the well-being of the more than 80,000 agriculture workers who are currently denied the same workplace rights, protections that most Ontario workers take for granted.
Mar 25 2013
Montreal should see it in its best interests to pass the resolution against uranium mining that has been sent to municipalities by Mayor Gaëtan Ruest of Amqui, who is trained as an engineer.
Mar 25 2013
Angered and frustrated by the LCBO proposed four-year wage freeze and a host of other claw backs from their current contract, 7,000 unionized liquor board employees will take an April strike vote.
Mar 25 2013
Adjusted for inflation, new infrastructure funding through the municipal GST rebate, Gas Tax Fund, P3 Canada Fund and Building Canada Fund will be $5 billion less over the next four years.
Mar 22 2013
Despite government claims to the contrary, today's federal budget actually reduces infrastructure spending, says the Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives.
