Oct 21, 2020
Ontario long-term care home lays off 60 unionized workers
Chelsea Nash
Sixty union jobs have been lost in Bowmanville, Ontario, amid a pandemic crisis in long-term care homes.
COVID-19
News and analysis about the COVID-19 pandemic.
Oct 21, 2020
Judge rules City of Toronto breached its agreement to ensure physical distancing in homeless shelters
Cathy Crowe
A legal coalition returns to court to advocate for physical distancing in shelters to protect homeless people from COVID-19.
Oct 21, 2020
Jason Kenney's Alberta government launches ambitious legislative session with no time for COVID-19
David J. Climenhaga
The Alberta government is cramming up to 20 bills into the six-week legislative sitting.
Oct 20, 2020
Alberta Premier Jason Kenney emphasizes 'personal responsibility' as COVID second wave hits province
David J. Climenhaga
Alberta has now passed a significant milestone -- more COVID-19 cases than at the peak of the first wave of the pandemic in the spring.
Oct 15, 2020
The infection election: from pallbearers to poll watchers
Donald Trump's pandemic response has cast a pall of death and economic calamity over the United States.
Oct 14, 2020
COVID-19 spared Indigenous communities at first but is now attacking them
Karl Nerenberg
First Nations communities will be safer when federal and provincial governments adopt a fulsome recognition of First Nations' right to run their own affairs.
Oct 9, 2020
Why healing activist burnout is essential to dismantling capitalism
Emma Lui
Healing and addressing burnout is the missing piece that will enable our movements to continue to work for the liberation of all in a regenerative way.
Oct 9, 2020
21,000 health-care workers infected with COVID-19
RadioLabour
RadioLabour's Canada Report: Nurses' union says governments have mismanaged the pandemic. And the Ontario Labour Relations Board rules against education unions.
Oct 7, 2020
Current school cohorting practices are ineffective and leave itinerant teachers at increased risk, say experts
Chelsea Nash
At a press conference hosted by four Ontario teacher unions, epidemiologists warned that autumn will bring higher rates of COVID-19 infection if changes are not implemented.
Oct 7, 2020
Canada and U.S. responses to COVID-19 hard times are poles apart
Karl Nerenberg
American lawmakers refer to emergency COVID measures as economic stimulus. In Canada, as in Europe, they are more likely to consider such measures to be simply social programs.
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