The Public Order Emergency Commission has begun public hearings into the declaration of emergency powers last winter. Subsequent events and revelations have strengthened the argument raised by the Communist Party of Canada at the time: that the dangerous growth of fascist forces called for immediate action to protect and strengthen democratic and civil rights, using…
Le Parti communiste du Canada se joint à l’appel lancé au gouvernement fédéral pour qu’il accorde immédiatement le statut de résident permanent à tous les travailleurs-euses sans statut et à ceux qui ont un statut temporaire au Canada. Le 18 septembre, des manifestations à travers le Canada demanderont au gouvernement Trudeau d’inclure tous les sans-papiers…
The Communist Party of Canada joins the call on the federal government to immediately extend permanent resident status to all non-status and temporary status workers in Canada. On September 18th, demonstrations across Canada will call on the Trudeau government to include all undocumented migrants in their previously announced, although undefined, immigration regularization program. Only through providing status to all can basic workers’ rights truly apply to all workers, raising the floor on wages and living and working conditions for all.
Five decades after the October Crisis, the WMA has been replaced with the Emergencies Act, and the RCMP Security Service by CSIS and the CSE, giving governments the same, and even greater powers to impose martial law than they had in 1970.
Le mouvement contre la police raciste a déjà rassemblé des centaines de milliers de travailleurs et travailleuses issus de différentes communautés sur le continent.
The scurrilous and racist attack by Conservative MP Derek Sloan on Dr. Theresa Tam is hate speech that should be followed up with charges under Canada’s hate speech laws.
The dangerous upsurge in Sinophobia since the start of the coronavirus crisis is a present day reflection of the anti-China xenophobia which has always been deliberately fanned by reactionary forces, starting from the earliest days of European colonisation on the west coast. The Communist Party of Canada calls upon the labour and people’s movements, and…
Images of the Prime Minister in blackface have exposed what most racialized, Indigenous and progressive people have long suspected: Trudeau and the ruling class have created a racist society in Canada.
Defenders of Steve Bannon and his campaign of hate argue that he has the right to speak under Canada’s Charter of Rights and Freedoms. They say free speech means everything should be on the table and a good debate will determine which ideas are right and which are wrong. That’s the argument in today’s Toronto…
The legal and political battle around the Ontario government’s Bill 5, the Better Local Government Act, once again proves the need for democratic constitutional reform in Canada.