Led by healthcare workers and advocates in Alberta, tens of thousands of people across Canada are rallying on September 1. They are opposing the Alberta government’s new healthcare legislation which introduces two-tiered care and widespread privatization, and calling on Ottawa to enforce the Canada Health Act which prohibits such threats to Medicare across Canada. Danielle…
Special Resolution of the 41st Convention of the Communist Party of Canada The opioid crisis continues to deepen in Canada, with the government reporting 53,821 deaths from 2016 to March 2025. Research has long shown that drug use dependency is a health issue, not an individual moral failing, but this understanding is not reflected in…
Ontario’s Tory government has just announced it will create a two-tier healthcare system in the province: one, a private-for profit system which is expected to thrive off the funding and staffing diverted from the public system; and the other, the chronically under-funded and under-staffed universal public system of Medicare which will be further impoverished and in…
The Central Committee of the Communist Party of Canada condemns recent attacks on public healthcare and calls its members and friends to join public healthcare coalitions to defend and expand healthcare so it is fully public and universal. Canada’s collapsing public healthcare repeatedly made cross-Canada news media during the summer of 2022 as emergency rooms…
Governments have prioritized profits over people and consistently opened up sections of the economy before it was safe and, in process, have cost lives and facilitated the spread of the pandemic.
If variants proliferate unchecked, there will be many more deaths over a period of years, not months.
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.
Non au renflouement des compagnies!
With so little to carry millions of Canadians for so short a time, this is a bailout that will strip working people of their jobs, their homes and their savings in a very short time.
La pandémie du COVID-19 menace la santé et le bien-être de tous les peoples du monde, les plus vulnérables étant les travailleurs-euses, les peuples autochtones, les chômeurs-euses, les pauvres et les aîné-e-s. Ça prend une action immédiate de la part du gouvernement canadien et la coopération de la communauté internationale pour sauver des dizaines de…