2024-05-08 18:51
Read Time:6 Minute Since the beginning of March 2024, Haiti's capital, Port-au-Prince, has been engulfed in an escalating war between armed gangs and police, leaving civilians caught in the… Read More
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The North Star is a new media led by a team of committed volunteers who believe in freedom of expression and the importance of a media that defends the interests of working people, their families and those who make this country what it is. There’s no pretentious language or snobbish chatter here, just raw, real information for real people.
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2024-05-07 16:49
Read Time:4 Minute This summer, 31 hotel unions affiliated with the Confédération des syndicats nationaux (CSN) will be negotiating their new collective agreement in a coordina… Read More
2024-05-05 20:57
Read Time:4 Minute Adopted on the first of April 2021 by the Montreal City Council, the BDM (By-law for a Diverse Metropolis) was presented as a mechanism to allow the city to force private… Read More
2024-05-04 17:11
Read Time:3 Minute On April 28, conflicting views on workplace safety took centre stage at a National Day of Mourning event at Jack Poole Plaza in Vancouver. The National Day of Mourning, al… Read More
2024-05-03 00:46
Read Time:3 Minute April 28 marked one year into the Thorncliffe Park rent strike, a collective tenant protest against above guideline rent increases (AGIs) proposed by their landlord… Read More
2024-05-01 14:38
L’article A (tiny) pay rise to celebrate International Workers’ Day? est apparu en premier sur The North Star.
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2024-04-30 15:38
Read Time:3 Minute This year's International Workers' Day comes after a busy year. From the Common Front in the public sector in Quebec, to the historic formation of a union in an Amazon war… Read More
2024-04-28 14:25
Read Time:2 Minute Over 40 years ago, Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) passed a resolution to begin honouring April 28th as a memorial day for injured or killed workers. A couple of… Read More
2024-04-27 20:31
Read Time:5 Minute Two years ago, hundreds of Amazon workers at the BHX4 warehouse in Coventry, England spontaneously walked off the job in protest of an insulting wage increase. Now, follow… Read More
2024-04-26 19:19
Read Time:2 Minute On April 24 and 25, employees of the Société des alcools du Québec (SAQ) went on strike in several regions across Quebec. The strikers wanted to denou… Read More
2024-03-11 23:58
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On February 14, 2024, transportation and delivery workers in the “gig economy” coordinated a… Read More
2024-03-08 20:54
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2024-03-07 06:35
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It has been a month since the unions affiliated to the Fédération autonome de l'enseignemen… Read More
2024-03-05 19:57
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In late December 2023, a single mother living in an East Scarborough apartment building for the past 15 y… Read More
2024-03-04 20:37
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2024-03-02 00:02
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On Sunday February 25, rallies and marches in the Philippines and around the world marked the 38th annive… Read More
2024-02-29 14:20
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Last summer, strikes by Manitoba public insurance workers and Liquor and Lotteries Manitoba brought the i… Read More
2024-02-26 15:39
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On Tuesday last week, a coalition of organizations occupied the Ottawa office of Canadian Associatio… Read More
2024-02-25 01:47
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On January 11, Toronto police charged Maged Sameh Hilal Al Khalaf with Public Incitement of Hatred for al… Read More
2024-02-23 23:47
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With the voting assemblies on the agreement in principle reached by the United Front now over, it's time… Read More
2024-02-22 04:30
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Bill 31 was announced last summer by Quebec housing minister France-Élaine Duranceau. Despite nume… Read More
2024-02-19 20:58
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In January, East Elgin Concrete Forming and iSpan Systems LP were both fined by the Ontario Ministry of L… Read More
2024-02-18 14:00
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Ten thousand Sault Ste. Marie patients will be without a family doctor and same-day clinic services come… Read More
2024-02-15 01:39
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Monday afternoon marked a win for workers as Ontario's top court upheld a ruling that Bill 124 is unconst… Read More
2024-02-14 19:40
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Canada has joined the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, and several European countries… Read More
2024-02-13 11:38
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At the beginning of June 2023, Quebec housing minister France-Élaine Duranceau announced Bill 31… Read More
2024-02-10 12:27
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Since the end of January, coffee shop workers in Halifax are taking action against union busting efforts… Read More
2024-02-08 23:05
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After an adoption under gag order described as "undemocratic" by many unions in early December, Bill 15 i… Read More
2024-02-07 15:52
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In recent months, the CAQ government has undertaken aggressive reforms of Quebec's public sector, in the… Read More
2024-02-05 18:30
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This January, international students at Algoma University's Brampton campus organized to protest the fail… Read More
2024-02-02 13:33
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On January 26, Langara College in Vancouver terminated pro-Palestinian instructor Natalie Knight for alle… Read More
2024-01-27 21:54
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On January 2, workers at Loblaws Great Food and Superstore celebrated the ratification of their new colle… Read More
2024-01-26 16:38
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On January 26, 2024, the International Court of Justice (ICJ) handed down a long-awaited decision on the… Read More
2024-01-26 13:52
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Just as workers entered their seventh week on strike in a labour dispute which saw information pickets at… Read More
2024-01-22 02:46
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Canadian Union of Public Employees (CUPE) local 4500, the union representing more than 180 Coast Mountain… Read More
2024-01-16 19:21
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The Canadian mining monopolist Ivanhoe Mines faces allegations of violating human rights in the Democrati… Read More
2024-01-15 21:58
Over the past fifty years, Quebec has been the battle ground of five different united fronts, and this past year the province was shaken by a sixth wave of public sector strikes that reached… Read More
2024-01-13 20:03
In his New Year's statement, Premier Doug Ford told Ontarians that he's "proud of what Team Ontario accomplished this past year" and that he "can’t wait to see what’s to come in… Read More
2024-01-12 01:33
The Lalji family, billionaire real-estate oligarchs, were 2023's recipient of the Women's Health Champion award from the BC Women's Health Foundation, which is awarded annually to an "indivi… Read More
2024-01-10 15:36
As many were scrambling to get their gifts together before the holidays, the staff of the sole Chapters Indigo store in Scarborough, Ontario were scrambling to figure out how they were going… Read More
2023-12-23 13:00
Workers at the Sheraton Vancouver Airport hotel have been on strike since June 14 in a standoff against the billionaire real-estate oligarch Lalji family. The striking Sheraton workers… Read More
2023-12-22 04:06
As workers at Sobeys-owned Pete's Frootique in Halifax near their second month of strike, information pickets were held across Canada by Service Employee International Union (SEIU) Local 2… Read More
2023-12-17 15:03
In Canada, millions of workers have unknowingly and unwittingly contributed to the ongoing crisis in Palestine over the course of their careers. While some participate in the manufactu… Read More
2023-12-14 16:34
Exasperated by the Quebec government's contempt for the public sector strike, over 5,000 Common Front workers gathered on December 12 at Montmorency College in Laval to express their frustra… Read More
2023-12-13 23:13
Negotiations between Rogers sugar plant workers and Lantic Inc. have broken down, says Adrian Soldera, the president of Public and Private Workers of Canada Local 8. Employees of the sugar r… Read More
2023-12-13 16:09
Last week, the Centre des services scolaires de Montréal (CSSDM), Quebec's largest school services center, obtained a Superior Court injunction against the union representing its teac… Read More
2023-12-06 21:38
Despite the cold weather and snow, mobilization and solidarity on the picket lines are growing, as the 66,000 teachers of the Fédération autonome de l'enseignement (FAE) have b… Read More
2023-12-06 16:55
Just over three weeks ago, workers at 26 Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) branches, members of CUPE-5454, ended one of the longest strikes in Canadian public… Read More
2023-12-06 16:55
Just over three weeks ago, workers at 26 Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC) branches, members of CUPE-5454, ended one of the longest strikes in Canadian public… Read More
2023-12-03 22:33
More than a month of mass protests, blockades, and strikes have forced the Panamanian Government to begin shutting down the Cobre Panamá mine. The copper mine—by far the largest… Read More
2023-12-03 00:20
Close to 100 workers at Sobeys-owned Pete’s Frootique in Halifax have launched a strike on November 18th asking for fairer wages. Workers are currently paid $15 an hour, the provincial… Read More
2023-12-02 13:30
And that's it. For all the CAQ's efforts to pretend it was a conciliatory, attentive government during the COVID-19 crisis, it's over. We're back to the good old rhetoric of elites who don't… Read More
2023-11-29 12:25
Following a demonstration for the liberation of Palestine in downtown Vancouver on October 28, Natalie Knight, a teacher at Langara College and member of the organization United in Struggle… Read More
2023-11-24 21:07
After 18 months of tension, workers at 26 branches of the Société québécoise du cannabis (SQDC), members of the Canadian Union of Public Employees local 5454 (CUP… Read More
2023-11-23 23:34
November 23, 2023 will go down in the history of Quebec and Canada, with 566,000 workers walking off the job. This marks the biggest strike since the AT&T strike in North America in 1983… Read More
2023-11-22 01:23
Two weeks into Israel’s bombardment and invasion of Gaza that an increasing number of people are not hesitating to call a genocide, significant numbers of high school students i… Read More
2023-11-21 01:56
Anger rumbles amongst Quebec’s bus drivers, hard hit by the general rise in the cost of living. Since October 16th, sixteen school bus unions, representing 182 members, have sent strik… Read More
2023-11-18 20:28
The Autonomous Federation of Education (FAE), a federation of nine education unions representing 66,500 members, has announced that it will use its unlimited general strike mandate on Novemb… Read More
2023-11-17 01:02
In the arsenal of weapons that the economic elites use to maintain their monopolies, an insidious, albeit lesser-known method of hoarding wealth is facing increased scrutiny. Stock buyback… Read More
2023-11-14 21:57
2023-11-14 00:31
Quebec's housing starts have fallen to a record low this year. In the Greater Montreal area, housing starts fell by 58%, the biggest drop in a quarter-century. For Quebec as a whole, the dec… Read More
2023-11-10 17:45
A united front of four Belgian unions announced on October 31 that they would refuse to handle military equipment destined for war zones in Palestine. The unions - CNE, UBT, Setca and Transc… Read More
2023-11-09 12:00
On Monday November 6, 420,000 public sector workers in Quebec, represented by a United Front of unions, took part in a half-day strike. Despite massive support for an unlimited general strik… Read More
2023-11-06 15:34
Even before the current upsurge in Palestinian resistance and Israeli reprisal, there were more than 5000 Palestinians being held in Israeli jails, including 170 children and 33 women prison… Read More
2023-11-03 19:58
On October 30, the United Auto Workers union (UAW) in the U.S. reached a tentative deal with General Motors (GM), ending an unprecedented six week-long strike against the Detroit "Big Three"… Read More
2023-10-31 18:56
2023-10-30 22:47
The situation is looking grim for the 214 workers at Vidéotron – Gatineau, trapped in a protracted dispute. The company prevented its workers from coming to work this morning in… Read More
2023-10-26 21:20
With Canada poised to sign a new ‘enhanced defense cooperation’ agreement with the Philippines, human rights attorney and former Filipino congressman Neri Colmenares completed hi… Read More
2023-10-25 01:09
This Saturday, October 21, around 100 demonstrators gathered outside the constituency office of Canada’s Immigration Minister, Marc Miller, to call for the immediate regularization of… Read More
2023-10-20 21:08
On October 14th, members of the Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 107 and members of the Hamilton local community gave speeches and showed their support to keep management of the future… Read More
2023-10-19 23:48
Over a month after the start of the historic United Auto Workers (UAW) strike against Detroit’s big three auto companies (Ford Motor Company, General Motors Company and Stellantis), au… Read More
2023-10-17 17:48
On October 5th Ontario’s three big hospital unions announced the signing of a “ten-point solidarity pact” at Queens park. The unions resolved to combat further austerity an… Read More
2023-10-15 21:09
Thousands have come out across Canada to attend various rallies following the unprecedented attacks on Israel from Hamas and other militant organizations in the Palestinian Gaza Strip. In ne… Read More
2023-10-14 20:29
On October 7, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict erupted in a new cycle of devastating violence that captured the world’s attention. More than 2,000 civilians, including 500 children and… Read More
2023-10-13 18:18
Last September, Tomoya Obokata, the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Slavery, visited Canada. Following his visit, the rapporteur published a report in which he warned against… Read More
2023-10-10 20:51
Manitoba Public Insurance (MPI) workers have been on strike since August 28. Similar to the Liquor Mart workers and other public servants, MPI workers were affected by Bill-28 which all… Read More
2023-10-09 21:17
At a press conference on Thursday, October 5, François-Philippe Champagne, Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, proclaimed that his recent meeting with the monopolistic giant… Read More
2023-10-08 01:18
On September 27th, five First Nations from Northern Ontario marched together demanding that Doug Ford stop the unwanted mining in their territories. The alliance of Asubpeeschoseewagong (Gra… Read More
2023-10-06 19:35
On the morning of September 28th, heavy equipment was deployed to clear the remnants of a homeless encampment in Cambridge, which had been a temporary home for around 50 individuals. This to… Read More
2023-10-06 01:22
Québec is boiling over at the start of October, in the face of one of the largest union mobilizations in decades. Since September 18, the 420,000 Quebec public sector employees repres… Read More
2023-10-04 20:11
Every Sunday morning last summer, seniors and family members have been protesting Global Kingdom Ministries (GKM), a Scarborough mega-church. In 2016, GKM advertised and started taking depos… Read More
2023-10-03 21:39
In early September, hundreds of North Bay international students, mostly from India, spent their first week of school scrambling to find a place to live. Neither the federal government… Read More
2023-10-01 21:30
The popular Winnipeg dinner theatre, Celebrations, opted to close down operations on September 8th after 3 days of strike action instead of bargaining with its workers. The workers h… Read More
2023-09-29 19:54
Three thousand workers at Safeway stores in the Lower Mainland have voted 98% in favour of a strike madate for their union local, currently in negotiations with Safeway’s parent compan… Read More
2023-09-26 23:43
In a recent twist in Canadian politics, the Speaker of the House of Commons, Anthony Rota, bid farewell to his post. A gesture which, it seems, will not be enough to make us forget the play… Read More
2023-09-25 22:05
On Saturday September 23, 100,000 Quebec public sector workers converged on the streets of Montreal to express their anger with government offers in the current round of union negotiations… Read More
2023-09-25 02:50
Only days into the United Auto Workers historic strike against the Big Three, the auto monopolies have retaliated by laying off workers at several factories. GM halted production at its plan… Read More
2023-09-23 21:43
Just seven months after workers at Starbucks’ Dunbar location successfully unionized their workplace, becoming the first Starbucks in Vancouver to form a union, Starbucks Canada is set… Read More
2023-09-22 01:17
The residents of a homeless camp in Cobourg, Ontario, have been forced to move three times since their initial settlement on a rocky beach in early August. Eviction notices, backed by the ri… Read More
2023-09-20 23:30
Metro Ontario workers recently went on strike in the Greater Toronto Area. Some 3,700 members of Unifor Local 414 walked off the job at 27 branches in the region. They were demanding fair wa… Read More
2023-09-19 23:55
Scotiabank has recently found itself in the spotlight for its role as the largest foreign investor in Elbit Systems, an Israeli arms manufacturing company that produces 85% of the drones use… Read More
2023-09-17 15:47
2023-09-16 21:32
On September 15, the United Auto Workers union (UAW) in the U.S. launched a major strike against the “Big Three” — Ford Motor Company, General Motors Compan… Read More
2023-09-14 00:06
Tenants at 71, 75, and 79 Thornecliffe Park Drive in Toronto have entered the fourth month of their rent strike against an Above Guideline Increase (AGI) by Starlight Investments and th… Read More
2023-09-12 19:17
On August 25th, hundreds of Montreal residents took to the street to denounce Bill 31, a bill which was proposed in the Quebec parliament back in June by France-Élaine Duranceau of th… Read More
2023-09-10 17:09
The RCMP has begun a possible criminal investigation into the handling of the Greenbelt by the Ford government. The move comes in the wake of allegations of corruption in how the Ford govern… Read More
2023-09-06 15:32
In late July, over 4000 people came out to Angrignon Park in Montreal for the city’s first ever Palestinian festival. Organized by the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), a grassroots yo… Read More
2023-09-03 15:19
Last Spring the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) launched a crackdown on so-called “violent shoplifting” called Operation Barcode. The operation, in which the VPD partnered with… Read More
2023-08-28 13:51
As the new school year approaches, marked as it is by a historic teacher shortage in Quebec and the threat of a strike in the province’s public sector, a more insidious crisis is takin… Read More
2023-08-25 17:32
In Québec, the teacher shortage denounced for years by education unions has just reached a new peak. Just a few days before the start of the school year, Bernard Drainville, Minister… Read More
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