https://znetwork.org/category/place/north-america/canada/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:50:44 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/category/place/north-america/canada/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/o-canada-how-long-can-your-facade-stand-while-wielding-a-genocidal-hand/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/o-canada-how-long-can-your-facade-stand-while-wielding-a-genocidal-hand/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:29:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293182 For decades, Canada has carefully cultivated a global reputation for principle, human rights, and moral clarity. However, that image is now cracking, and cracking fast. For too long, Canada has cloaked its inaction and complicity, rather spectacularly, behind political correctness. But as the global crises grow more brutal — and more visible — it has [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/o-canada-how-long-can-your-facade-stand-while-wielding-a-genocidal-hand/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ndps-last-chance-cooperatives-or-extinction/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ndps-last-chance-cooperatives-or-extinction/#respond Wed, 07 Jan 2026 22:10:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293187 As Canada enters 2026, the New Democratic Party stands on the edge of irrelevance. In the April 2025 federal election, the NDP suffered its worst defeat in history: reduced to just seven seats and a mere 6-7% of the popular vote, losing official party status and watching its support collapse across the country. Union households [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ndps-last-chance-cooperatives-or-extinction/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fossil-fuel-propaganda-is-stalling-climate-action-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fossil-fuel-propaganda-is-stalling-climate-action-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it/#respond Sat, 03 Jan 2026 16:18:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1293060 2025 has been a year of setbacks for Canada’s climate policy. In November, the federal and Alberta governments signed a memorandum of understanding to remove strict climate policies in the province and to support the construction of a new pipeline from Alberta to northern British Columbia. The government also cancelled the federal carbon tax this year, while [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/fossil-fuel-propaganda-is-stalling-climate-action-heres-what-we-can-do-about-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alberta-is-privatizing-healthcare-threatening-public-healthcare-across-canada/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alberta-is-privatizing-healthcare-threatening-public-healthcare-across-canada/#respond Thu, 25 Dec 2025 17:02:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292772 The Canada Health Act requires provinces to provide all medically necessary hospital and physician services under public health insurance. It is like a bill of rights for patients. Canadians have the right to medically necessary hospital and physician care on equal terms and conditions, without financial barriers. Extra-billing patients and charging user fees for medically necessary hospital and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/alberta-is-privatizing-healthcare-threatening-public-healthcare-across-canada/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-housing-crisis-is-solvable/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-housing-crisis-is-solvable/#respond Mon, 22 Dec 2025 16:07:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292625 The magnitude of the housing shortage is huge and the problems chronic, but the housing crisis is solvable. Throughout British Columbia (BC) and Canada, the housing crisis is marked by high rents and prices, a scarcity of homes, displacement, homelessness, and the quiet exclusion of people from entire neighborhoods. While a boon to some, high [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-housing-crisis-is-solvable/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/save-our-forests-one-roll-at-a-time/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/save-our-forests-one-roll-at-a-time/#respond Wed, 17 Dec 2025 18:42:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292454 North America’s boreal forests are crucial for wildlife and the climate, but we’re literally trashing them to make pulp for toilet paper and other disposable paper products. Companies are clear-cutting a million acres a year, according to a new report from the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC). The northern boreal forests are Earth’s largest terrestrial [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/save-our-forests-one-roll-at-a-time/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadas-liberals-fear-closing-arms-export-loophole-to-israel-would-anger-u-s/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadas-liberals-fear-closing-arms-export-loophole-to-israel-would-anger-u-s/#respond Wed, 10 Dec 2025 18:24:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1292222 A leaked Liberal caucus briefing document obtained by The Maple warned that regulating the flow of Canadian-made military goods to the United States might upset the Americans, resulting in economic blows to Canada and damaging geopolitical alliances. The briefing was prepared in response to Bill C-233, a private members’ bill sponsored by NDP MP Jenny [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadas-liberals-fear-closing-arms-export-loophole-to-israel-would-anger-u-s/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-cbc-needs-a-co-op-revolution/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-cbc-needs-a-co-op-revolution/#respond Wed, 03 Dec 2025 19:09:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291915 Let’s be honest: CBC’s current model is a relic. Seventy percent government-funded, it’s a political football—kicked between Liberal lifelines and Conservative defunding threats. The 2025 budget debates, projected from the national anxiety over global trade and tariff threats, show the perennial problem: funding discussions are about Ottawa’s political priorities, not the needs of the network [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/why-cbc-needs-a-co-op-revolution/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-change-and-labour-precarity-a-worker-centred-agenda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-change-and-labour-precarity-a-worker-centred-agenda/#respond Sat, 29 Nov 2025 16:00:32 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291777 Just as the COP30 meeting in Belen, Brazil, has ended, the last week of November is Canada Climate Week Xchange. We could hope this is good news, but instead of the week’s activities being sponsored by traditional climate organizations or climate innovators, it is organized by the Toronto Stock Exchange. Canada Climate Week stands out from other [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/climate-change-and-labour-precarity-a-worker-centred-agenda/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-should-take-stronger-actions-in-sudan/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-should-take-stronger-actions-in-sudan/#respond Thu, 27 Nov 2025 16:50:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291694 Days ago, the RSF militia carried out a brutal massacre in Elfashir; thousands were killed based on their ethnic background in a single day, including patients at a hospital, women, and children who were lined up and shot. Satellite images reveal that the militia put the victims in a mass burial to hide its crime. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-should-take-stronger-actions-in-sudan/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadian-auto-isnt-in-crisis-its-in-danger-of-extinction/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadian-auto-isnt-in-crisis-its-in-danger-of-extinction/#respond Sat, 15 Nov 2025 13:59:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291287 Canadian autoworkers have faced many crises over the years, but the present threat is distinct. Lana Payne, President of Unifor, has warned that “If we don’t push back hard against him [US President Donald Trump] and against these companies, we’re going to lose it all.” So far, the debate over what to do has started and stopped [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadian-auto-isnt-in-crisis-its-in-danger-of-extinction/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-canadian-dream-is-dead-but-co-ops-can-revive-it/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-canadian-dream-is-dead-but-co-ops-can-revive-it/#respond Wed, 12 Nov 2025 17:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1291143 Picture 1952 Toronto: An Italian baker, still called “enemy alien,” scrapes $500 and opens a shop on College Street. Milk: 24¢ a quart. Eggs: 55¢ a dozen. Average pay: $1,672 a year. He hires his cousin, buys flour on co-op credit, and by Christmas he’s feeding half the block. Prejudice? Real. But the economy had [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-canadian-dream-is-dead-but-co-ops-can-revive-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cooperative-media-building-democratic-voices-in-a-contracting-economy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cooperative-media-building-democratic-voices-in-a-contracting-economy/#respond Fri, 17 Oct 2025 18:18:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1290091 In an era of economic contraction—marked by rising inequality, precarious gig work, and the hollowing out of local communities—traditional media often amplifies despair rather than igniting strategy. Headlines scream crisis, but where are the blueprints for what comes next? As we grapple with a world where billion-dollar conglomerates control narratives and algorithms bury dissent, cooperative [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/cooperative-media-building-democratic-voices-in-a-contracting-economy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-posts-strike-is-a-salvo-against-the-gig-economy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-posts-strike-is-a-salvo-against-the-gig-economy/#respond Wed, 08 Oct 2025 18:04:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289672 For the second time in a year, Canadian postal workers are on a nationwide strike, fighting back against what could be the final nail in the coffin for the publicly owned postal system. Following a September 25 announcement from the federal government instructing Canada Post to begin shuttering rural post offices and axing what’s left [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-posts-strike-is-a-salvo-against-the-gig-economy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ndp-2026-a-blueprint-for-a-generation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ndp-2026-a-blueprint-for-a-generation/#respond Tue, 07 Oct 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289610 Canada’s NDP needs to rekindle the anti-capitalist thinking and activist energy that spurred its creation. That logic has shaped my campaign’s recently released platform. In July 1933 the Co-operative Commonwealth Federation (CCF) met in Regina for its first national convention. About 130 delegates approved what became known as the Regina Manifesto. It said, “genuine international [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/ndp-2026-a-blueprint-for-a-generation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/on-the-hypocrisy-of-starmers-macrons-carneys-and-albaneses-recognition-of-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/on-the-hypocrisy-of-starmers-macrons-carneys-and-albaneses-recognition-of-palestine/#comments Sun, 28 Sep 2025 15:16:58 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289203 As the UK, France, Canada and Australia recognised (belatedly and hypocritically) the State of Palestine, it is important to cast an eye on the ethnic cleansing (and, now, genocide) of Palestinians through the prism of International Law and the Australian High Court’s landmark decision on land rights.]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/on-the-hypocrisy-of-starmers-macrons-carneys-and-albaneses-recognition-of-palestine/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedagogies-of-repression-ford-trump-and-the-war-on-education/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedagogies-of-repression-ford-trump-and-the-war-on-education/#respond Sun, 14 Sep 2025 15:03:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288559 Analyses of fascism too often fixate on its most spectacular expressions: staggering inequality, systemic racism, the militarization of daily life, unbridled corruption, monopolistic control of the media, and the concentration of power in financial and political elites. Fascism thrives on a culture of fear and racial cleansing and the normalization of cruelty, lies, and state [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/pedagogies-of-repression-ford-trump-and-the-war-on-education/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-shifting-sands-of-quebec-politics/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-shifting-sands-of-quebec-politics/#respond Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287775 The Quebec political landscape is undergoing a major political recomposition. The illusion of CAQ [1] hegemony is collapsing under the weight of economic failures, the social degradation of public services and the sterility of its nationalist rhetoric. The Parti Québécois [2], reinvigorated by an assertive independence discourse, is benefiting from the electorate, but already carries its own contradictions. [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-shifting-sands-of-quebec-politics/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defying-back-to-work-order-air-canada-flight-attendants-secure-tentative-agreement/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defying-back-to-work-order-air-canada-flight-attendants-secure-tentative-agreement/#respond Tue, 26 Aug 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287783 Flight attendants with Air Canada and subsidiary Air Canada Rouge walked out early August 17. As expected, the Liberal government ordered them back to work 12 hours later, declaring their strike unlawful. In a bold move with wide implications, the 10,000 striking flight attendants defied the order. They’d voted 99.7 percent to strike earlier this month. Their [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/defying-back-to-work-order-air-canada-flight-attendants-secure-tentative-agreement/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/class-struggle-unionism-auto-workers-reds-and-the-1930s/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/class-struggle-unionism-auto-workers-reds-and-the-1930s/#respond Mon, 25 Aug 2025 15:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287733 The current moment is an ominous one for the workers’ movement in North America. In response to Trump’s tariffs and trade wars, there has been a noticeable lack of class struggle perspectives or even basic solidarity coming from labour leaders on both sides of the border. The top leadership of some of the largest unions [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/class-struggle-unionism-auto-workers-reds-and-the-1930s/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadas-wildfires-fuel-the-climate-crisis/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadas-wildfires-fuel-the-climate-crisis/#respond Fri, 08 Aug 2025 16:50:54 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1287086 Even in the early stages of Canada’s wildfire season, it was already clear that this year would be the second worst wildfire in Canadian history, surpassed only by the horrific and unprecedented fires of 2023. On 12 June, the CBC reported that wildfires had already consumed 3.7 million hectares, while the ten-year average figure for early June is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canadas-wildfires-fuel-the-climate-crisis/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-a-basic-right-or-playground-for-global-capital/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-a-basic-right-or-playground-for-global-capital/#respond Mon, 21 Jul 2025 17:56:38 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286433 Across Canada and the United States, housing is not treated as a basic human need. It has been reimagined as an investment vehicle, a speculative asset class, and a profit machine for institutional investors. This transformation, what housing experts call the financialization of housing, sits at the heart of the affordability crisis gripping cities across [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/housing-a-basic-right-or-playground-for-global-capital/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-in-four-need-work-if-we-calculate-a-true-unemployment-rate/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-in-four-need-work-if-we-calculate-a-true-unemployment-rate/#respond Wed, 16 Jul 2025 18:54:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1286238 How many people are out of work? What is the real unemployment rate? We don’t know. What we do know is that the true number is far higher than the unemployment rate at any given time. There are some measures that purport to give a better answer than the standard unemployment rate, such as the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/one-in-four-need-work-if-we-calculate-a-true-unemployment-rate/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/citizen-mercenaries-and-the-gaza-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/citizen-mercenaries-and-the-gaza-genocide/#respond Sat, 07 Jun 2025 10:39:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284692 It is, of course, nice to see Canada, the UK and France finally developing a conscience over what multiple international institutions and prominent scholarly experts have concluded. That is, the Zionist colonial regime of Israel is committing the crime of genocide against Palestinians in Gaza. After all, the evidence of murderous carnage perpetrated upon Gaza and its peoples is robust. Scientists [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/citizen-mercenaries-and-the-gaza-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/international-mobilization-for-peace-action-and-community-transformation/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/international-mobilization-for-peace-action-and-community-transformation/#respond Fri, 30 May 2025 16:27:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284383 Open Letter to G7 and the Canadian Government: Reject Militarization, End Neoliberal Austerity and Address Climate Change: People Come Before Profits. ATTN: Prime Minister Mark Carney Finance Minister Francois-Philippe Champagne Windsor West MP Harb Gill Windsor Tecumseh Lakeshore MP Kathy Borrelli Essex MP Chris Lewis Chatham-Kent-Leamington MP Dave Epp This message is from IMPACT G7, a coalition [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/international-mobilization-for-peace-action-and-community-transformation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-towards-the-renewal-of-the-status-quo-ante-or-the-desperate-search-for-an-agreement-with-trumpism/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-towards-the-renewal-of-the-status-quo-ante-or-the-desperate-search-for-an-agreement-with-trumpism/#respond Mon, 26 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284228 While various polls for 2024 predicted a landslide victory for the Conservative Party of Canada, the last federal election gave the Liberal Party of Canada a fourth term. The election campaign was dominated by widespread public apprehension over the trade war and Donald Trump’s threats of annexation of Canada. These fears weighed heavily on voting [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/canada-towards-the-renewal-of-the-status-quo-ante-or-the-desperate-search-for-an-agreement-with-trumpism/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democratic-employee-ownership-for-a-resilient-canadian-economy/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democratic-employee-ownership-for-a-resilient-canadian-economy/#respond Tue, 13 May 2025 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283683 The US government’s escalating trade war has forced us to quickly rethink and prepare to reorient Canada’s economy. Discussions have thus far focused on developing new export markets and reducing barriers to interprovincial trade. These are important initiatives, but we can do more and better.  At this time of crisis, when our economy, sovereignty and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/democratic-employee-ownership-for-a-resilient-canadian-economy/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/youre-literally-brainwashed-jewish-school-students-speak-out/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/youre-literally-brainwashed-jewish-school-students-speak-out/#respond Sat, 10 May 2025 14:51:22 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283563 In February, I released Find IDF Soldiers, a database containing profiles of Canadians that have joined the Israeli military. Many of the soldiers attended Jewish schools in Canada, and sometimes attributed their decision to join the Israeli military in part to their time at these institutions. A subsequent review of the schools in question — including curricula, mission [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/youre-literally-brainwashed-jewish-school-students-speak-out/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-canadas-costed-platforms-could-shift-spending-from-military-to-human-services/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-canadas-costed-platforms-could-shift-spending-from-military-to-human-services/#respond Tue, 29 Apr 2025 16:01:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283092 Canada just held its federal election this week. I watch it closely because I have dual US and Canadian citizenship. I’ve always been intrigued by the way that all political parties in Canada literally have to “bring the receipts” for any proposals that they suggest on the campaign trail. They call them “costed platforms.” The [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-canadas-costed-platforms-could-shift-spending-from-military-to-human-services/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-pro-climate-society-of-care-and-connection-against-trumps-blackmail/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-pro-climate-society-of-care-and-connection-against-trumps-blackmail/#respond Mon, 28 Apr 2025 16:03:03 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1283070 As noted in my previous article, Canada and Quebec’s commercial entanglement in the US economy is profound following thirty years of “free trade,” with neoliberal capitalism as its legacy. Suddenly, Trump has thrown this aside for an attempt to neo-fascistize the US and the world. The result is an abrupt return to the old annexationist imperialism [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/a-pro-climate-society-of-care-and-connection-against-trumps-blackmail/feed/ 0