The recent Air Canada flight attendants’ strike showcased remarkable defiance against exploitative conditions and government strike-breaking, inspiring workers across Canada. Yet, the imposed settlement exposed serious limits on union democracy and bargaining power. The struggle offers both a powerful example of resistance and a warning for future labour battles.

Canada’s 2025 election exposed deep divisions in the working class, with many union members shifting toward Conservative populism. Fred Wilson argues labour’s modest political impact signals an urgent need for a unified, non-partisan strategy. Without a bold overhaul, unions risk losing influence over Canada’s political direction in a volatile new era.

The intensifying depredations of the changing climate, coupled with their disproportionate effects on poor and working class people, have very major implications when it comes to the shape and directions of the class struggle. Climate change requires that workers and working class communities respond, to a much greater degree than in the past.

Formed in 2019, Juventudes Revolucionarias (JR, or JR-16) is a socialist organization made up of young Panamanian revolutionaries. They have organized against undemocratic constitutional reforms, Canadian mining companies, and US imperialism. Now, they are engaged in resistance against the US-backed government of José Raúl Mulino.

Prime Minister Mark Carney is presenting himself as a politician who has a vision of a new, more prosperous and sovereign Canada. Yet, whatever he and his government have in mind, writes Harry Glasbeek, they certainly do not want the working class to make too many gains or to have much of a say in what kind of a society we might become.

In an unprecedented move in the history of collective bargaining at the federal level in Canada, Minister of Jobs and Families, Patty Hajdu, agreed to a request from Canada Post that she use her power under the Canada Labour Code to order a vote on the final offers that Canada Post submitted to the Canadian Union of Postal Workers on May 28, 2025.

How can the Canadian Jewish left urge faith leaders and institutions to publicly stand against Israel’s genocide? As more and more Jews are realizing that Israel’s unrelenting war on Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank is not being waged to keep Jews safe, either in Israel or around the world, they are supporting the growing calls for aid and a ceasefire.

Toronto’s new bubble zone anti-protest bylaw is both more and less dangerous than it may appear at first glance. Less because the bylaw’s enforceability and constitutionality are shaky, more because this provision needs to be understood as an example of the lawfare being wielded against pro-Palestinian solidarity and other left movements.

Whether Ben Carr likes it or not, the Communist Party of Canada will remain in this struggle for more popular democracy, as we have unflaggingly for generations. No aspersions can revise that record, and no bubble can keep us from wielding these freedoms we are proud to defend.

Despite Poilievre’s flagging popularity and disagreements within the Canadian right over his divisive style, the Conservative leader refuses to pivot from Trumpian politics. In fact, he is reinforcing his Trump-like image in the final days of the election, including by threatening crackdowns on Canadian universities to suppress criticism of Israel’s genocide in Gaza.