New Democrats and Liberals both had their conventions this past weekend. Liberal delegates were more focused on winning the next election and less on policy debates than their NDP counterparts.

Five unions in Ontario are demanding that teachers and other education workers be vaccinated immediately.

The pandemic has only increased the clout of the powerful drug industry, which largely controls access to COVID vaccines desperately needed by Canadians and others.

To prevent pandemics, we must recognize our interconnectedness with nature and protect natural systems that make the planet habitable for humans. Doing so will also help with the climate emergency.

The pandemic escalated widespread recognition of an undeniable fact about a country with an aging population: the caring economy holds up the essential economy.

Long-term care for the elderly is the weak sibling of Canada's health system. If we did not know that previously, the COVID-19 pandemic has proven it conclusively.

Although this decision was about carbon pricing, it signals that the federal government has the authority to enact national climate and clean energy regulations that reduce harmful emissions.

Staying informed about the latest issues concerning the COVID-19 pandemic is important. Unfortunately, it's not so easy.

We all deserve better than the nihilistic politics on offer from Justin Trudeau's Liberals. It is really that simple.

Vancouver's Downtown Eastside faces severe issues, among them, poverty, homelessness and drug overdose. Three people who have made contributions to the neighbourhood speak about their experiences.

Craig and Marc Kielburger, the two brothers who founded WE Charity, have decided to play aggressive offence as they push back against the members of Parliament investigating them.

What do public pension funds have to do with Canadian agriculture? The answer to that question begins with the Prairie Wheat Pools that farmers formed back in the 1920s.

The term social murder has been aptly used to describe what happened in long-term care in this pandemic. Today's third wave exposes public health neglect for homeless people.

Jeremy Corbyn spoke with hundreds of Canadians this past weekend, in an online event organized to raise funds for Progressive International.

Women working in Bolivian mines are subject to violence and sexual harassment while being paid almost nothing. Canada's United Steelworkers are helping.

The two Michaels are pawns in a great game played by two haughty imperial powers that care little about Canada or Canadians.

Uber has invested hundreds of millions into avoiding the reclassification of its workers as "employees" worldwide.

A new report looking at the inequitable worldwide distribution of vaccines points its finger at Canada as typical of "unseemly and unfair vaccine grabs" by wealthy countries.

Uber Canada is promoting its Flexible Work+ proposal as a social justice campaign. But most of the changes that Uber says are needed to make gig work fairer could be implemented by Uber tomorrow.

Nina Newington and fellow protesters are heading to court for protesting clear-cutting in sensitive moose habitat in southwest Nova Scotia.

Governments are generally secretive about giving handouts to business, but the Trudeau government has come up with a particularly sneaky way to offer corporate welfare.

Isn't it time we cut the apron strings with the British Empire, once and for all?

Why are people in Canada still waiting for vaccines, when countries all over the world are far ahead of us in putting shots in arms?

This year, during a pandemic, let's make International Women's Day 2021 really matter.

The current Liberal minority has arguably been working quite well, especially since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic.

A conversation with the organizers behind one of the most impactful climate-change plans in the country.

It would be a tragedy if, in the rush to return to normal, we cast aside what we've learned, and postpone the work necessary to change our systems to build the resilience we need to thrive.

"COVID Chronicles" is preserving workers' experiences for future historians.