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Even after a press conference yesterday in Ottawa, we still do not know the details as to exactly what EI changes the government will bring about.

Toronto rallies in solidarity with Quebec students and against Bill 78, as part of a day of action marking 100 days of the student strike.

It's been an important week for Quebec student protesters, and we had lots of coverage in our blogs section!

Most British Columbians would agree that everyone should pay their fair share of taxes.

In solidarity with striking Quebec students, activists in Toronto are calling for a Casserole action tonight so bring your pots and pans.

These marches are totally illegal, openly flaunting the repressive bill 78, making a mockery of Premier Charest attempt to crush the student and peoples' movement.

The Conservative Party of Canada’s lawyers yesterday filed a second motion to dismiss the legal challenges of individual citizens seeking to overturn federal election results in seven ridings

draconian anti-protest and racist anti-immigrant laws in canada, new tactics and weapons for the US's NATO, Canada's hidden wars, anti-mining/bling is dead, + harper's fascist gov't

The Alberta Legislature could have done worse than choose someone like Gene Zwozdesky to wear the Speaker’s three-cornered hat.

From the Quebec student strike to Occupy Wall Street, the potential for a new global resistance is emerging.

Do Quebec student protests stem from an entitlement mentality? Hardly. They represent a refusal to ride the inequality escalator. Faced with maxed out greed, Quebecois students propose an alternative.

The Charest government has turned to repression to try to break the largest and longest student strike in Quebec history.

Changes to the EI rules announced by the federal Conservative government today are not rooted in any lengthy policy rationale.

Draconian legislation is facing the quebec social movement, as police continue a repressive crackdown. We also look to resistance to austerity -in ontario, chile, + antifa action in europe

The first session of Alberta's 28th Legislature opens later today with one bill, still a secret, and not much work for the province's 87 MLAs to do.

A long-time Nova Scotia NDP activist argues that there were better alternatives to the government's tax cuts and austerity measures.

On the 100th day of the protest in the Quebec students' strike, hundreds of thousands took to the streets in Montreal, with solidarity rallies happening in cities across Canada, in the US and Europe.

A new poll shows support for Jean Charest's hard line with student strikers collapsing, as his unconstitutional "special law" raises the ire of Quebeckers.

If you, your union, or your organization is able to give any amount of financial help, it would make an undeniable difference in our struggle.

All movements for greater social justice sometimes need a spark from the young, from the generations that are not weighed down by past defeats and disappointments.

Our correspondent, who was on the front lines during Toronto's G20 protests, argues the McNeilly report comes up short.

They promised us the Mother of All Battles and the best they can come up with is to call the NDP leader un-Canadian? Pathetic!

Busy fighting off Harper's wave of attacks, we are in danger of losing our imagination regarding what is truly possible in this country.

Rally on Tuesday at the Vancouver Art Gallery in solidarity with the Quebec student strike.

It is typical of the tactics of the Harper Conservatives to use wedge issues to intentionally divide Canadians along regional lines and then to disingenuously attribute the same strategy to their oppo