John Clarke, recently retired co-founder of Ontario Coalition Against Poverty, traveled to Alberta to help strategize against the UCP agenda. Listen to a talk he gave on March 27, 2019.
RadioLabour’s Canada report April 5-12, 2019 — health care in Nova Scotia is in a crisis, corporate lobbyists are fighting pharmacare, and more.
RadioLabour’s March 29 to April 5 report: USW’s Ken Neumann on Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, unions helping refugees in Lebanon, and more.
On RadioLabour for March 22-29 – Karen Campbell of the ETFO talks about the UN’s Commission on the Status of Women conference, and a call by a young activist with autism for action on climate change.
Bill S-238 is before Parliament to end shark finning. An interview with Brian Stewart and Sandra Campbell about their late son’s films and his commitment to end the exploitation of sharks.
Also on RadioLabour this week: domestic workers from the Philippines struggle for respect and fair pay, the LabourStart report and singing. Who does the work? We do!
CLC Secretary Treasurer Marie Clarke Walker says “Join a union!” — an epic attempt at global equal pay for work of equal value; and the LabourStart report about union events.
Canadian activist, journalist and lawyer Dimitri Lascaris was in Venezuela in February, talking to people with varying opinions about the causes of the current crisis. He talks about what he heard.
The BCGEU wants a public inquiry into organized crime and drug overdosing; OFL to fight health-care privatization; African labour leader arrested in Zimbabwe.
David Mivasair, a rabbi living in Hamilton, talks about why he believes the Jewish National Fund Canada should not have charitable tax status.
On this week’s program: USW fights to stop killings, cutting overtime during a nursing shortage and the global struggle to win social justice.
A conversation with NCRA executive director Barry Rooke about the potential impact of a new funding formula in Ontario being proposed by the Ford government.
