The Bank of Canada hiked interest rates to 4.5% in January – the 8th hike in 11 months – even though previous hikes have shown that while the impact on inflation is minimal, the impact on the working class, the young and the poor is devastating. Real wages and living standards are falling dramatically, as…
The recent October 3 election in Quebec is a reminder of the importance of reforming the current voting system. In recent years, rarely has the distortion between the popular vote and the seats obtained, induced by the first-past-the-post system, been so obvious. With 41% of the vote, the CAQ won 72% of the seats, while…
The Communist Party of Canada unequivocally condemns the Zionist aggression against the people of Gaza. A three day Israeli bombing campaign on Gaza has left at least 49 Palestinians dead, including 17 children. Israel alleges their criminal attack was ‘pre-emptive’, a claim that has nothing to do with reality. The Israeli war machine dropped bombs…
Le premier mai 2022 marque une année de “reprise corporative“ de la crise économique concomitante à la COVID. Une crise qui a fait souffrir beaucoup de travailleur-euses, au Canada comme ailleurs. Une année également marquée par une escalade militaire qui mène directement à la guerre en Ukraine et menace de d’embraser toute l’Europe. 2022 est…
The 2022 federal budget is a product of the Liberal-NDP pact that promised to deliver pharmacare, denticare, affordable housing, and action on climate change, but in fact has delivered very little of these urgent policy commitments -urgent that is to working people across Canada. But this budget certainly delivers for Big Business and the military,…
The Liberal-NDP Pact announced this week contains a lot of promises that working people have been waiting for, for a long time. The Romanow Commission proposed more than 20 years ago and to wide acclaim, to expand universal Medicare to include pharmacare, dental care, vision, and long-term care. The Liberal’s own Dr. Eric Hoskins proposed…
International Women’s Day, 2022 The continuing struggle for women’s and gender equality, peace and socialism March 8, 2022 marks two years of a pandemic and economic crisis that has seen women losing ground in the struggle for social equality. Women in Canada have lost jobs at a higher rate than men, have lost hours of…
Pour le rapatriement des soldats, contre la vente d’armes et d’équipements militaires du Canada et de l’OTAN vers l’Ukraine Pour une résolution politique et pacifique L’intervention militaire des forces russes en Ukraine a sérieusement augmenté les tensions dans la région, a travers l’Europe, et à l’international Elle a également accru le danger d’une confrontation entre…
Repatriate Canadian and NATO Troops, Arms, and Military Equipment Negotiate a Peaceful Political Solution The military incursion of Russian forces into Ukraine has seriously ratcheted up tensions in the region, across Europe and internationally, and increased the danger of ‘great power’ confrontation and even nuclear war. This military action must end as quickly as possible,…
The Communist Party stands with anti-fascist, anti-racist forces who are the real public defenders today, and calls on the labour, democratic and civil rights movements to speak up now against the invocation of the Emergencies Act, in defence of civil liberties and for government action to protect the public from the occupation using existing legislation and anti-hate laws.