Bruce Wilson understands the anxiety many workers face when thinking about exiting the oil industry.
Before a recent move to the hydrogen business, he spent over 30 years working as an engineer in the high-carbon industry, including a long stint at Shell. This first career saw him travelling to different countries, which he recalled as a “wonderful period” that allowed him to experience a variety of cultures. But it also raised questions for him.
The Government of Northwest Territories has been charged $10,000 for destroying the nests of at-risk bank swallows, a regional wildlife enforcement director with Environment and Climate Change Canada told The Narwhal.
Unions representing British Columbia’s long-term care home workers are scratching their heads as to why they never received an invitation to participate in a review of the province’s response to COVID-19 in the long-term care sector.
Twenty-six days on a tiny ship with a lecherous old man: if that had been in the job description, Kim would probably have found another job.
But she wanted to be a professional marine biologist, and working on a miserable rust bucket as a fisheries observer was a means to an end, something she could do to protect the environment while gaining valuable experience.
Two MLAs from Premier Jason Kenney's government caucus have joined a national coalition of elected and former politicians dedicated to the proposition that restrictions on social and commercial activities intended to slow the spread of COVID-19 must end.
Last Thursday, a 20-year-old man on a skateboard ran a red light in downtown Barrie, Ontario. Sirens wailed, lights flashed and he was pulled over. Like many who have committed a road safety violation he received a ticket from a police officer. Then he got back on his skateboard and rode away.
Canadian business leaders are calling for the Trudeau government to announce a fiscal anchor in its next budget, expected in March or April.
Supported by deficit-fighting economists and former senior government officials who have been promoting austerity for decades, Goldy Hyder and his Business Council chief executives want to "anchor" government spending to the level of government debt.
The only fiscal anchor worthy of support is full employment.
In January 2021, a nine-year-old child was pepper sprayed in Rochester, New York, and the police union came out saying that "the child suffered no real harm." Almost every time there is a case of abuse or murder of visible minorities at the hands of police, police unions and associations have been seen opposing and watering down efforts to address racism and unfairness in policing. In June 2020, labour reporter Chelsea Nash wrote about the issue of police unions and racism for rabble.ca. As we work to fight against police violence and racism, and the Canadian Labour Congress joins the fight to defund the police, what will we in the labour movement do about carceral-sector unions and associations (covering police, correctional officers, security guards, etc.)?
When senators resume sitting later today, they will begin final debate on the government’s controversial proposal to change the rules for accessing medical assistance in dying (MAiD), Bill C-7.
To date, more than 100 million doses of COVID-19 vaccines have been administered, spanning 67 countries across the world.
In Canada, a total of about 1.07 million doses have been administered as of Sunday night. Despite multiple delays, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau reiterated last week that every Canadian seeking inoculation would be vaccinated by September.