Samuel Helguero
'All means necessary': Big employer groups fight longshoremen’s strike for better working conditions
The involved employer associations have long been in touch with the federal government. Their demands have included corporate tax cuts, spending cuts, deregulation, and recently, calls to reopen schools.
EXCLUSIVE: The military ambitions of the 2020 Conservative leadership race
A critical look behind front runner platforms and a policy of military intervention that has cost billions, left thousands dead, and helped sew global instability.
Alberta reforms could mean fewer and weaker unions in UCP bid to 'silence' opposition
The bill coincides with plans by the United Conservative Party to remove limits on third party election spending.
EXCLUSIVE: Into the party line of 2020’s Conservative leadership race
A critical look behind front runner platforms and the economic doctrine that may have cost billions, Canadian lives, jobs, and an energy sector spiraling out of control.
Worker deaths, government crackdown on dissidents, and criminal investigation surround Canadian mines in Latin America
In Putaendo, a city of Chile, hundreds of police and military personnel, reportedly “armed to the teeth,” flooded its streets to supervise extractive activity. Unlike other regions, Putaendo has no large-scale mines. It has, however, been eyed by a Canadian junior for preliminary exploration.
'Getting at the wound itself': Canadian cities confront surging police funding
The COVID-19 epidemic threw Vancouver into a deficit that demanded cuts to social services. “Everybody else was taking hits” so just before George Floyd was killed, its Councillors supported a one percent cut to the police.
RCMP officers 'add another level of fear' for workers in their six-month battle to protect their pensions and jobs
Dead rabbits on their doorsteps. Spouses being stalked; their pictures taken in their yards and communities. Bomb threats that police kept secret. Now workers have been getting regular visits from the RCMP.
There’s been decades of class warfare—Now, the chickens are home to roost
Problems of democracy cannot easily, by their nature, be solved democratically. Instead, times come, as they have in Hong Kong and America, when the tree of liberty must be refreshed with the blood of patriots and tyrants.
The 'revolving door' between Ontario's PCs and the for-profit seniors care industry worst hit by coronavirus
Conservative politicians and insiders routinely turn from the party and government payroll to cashing in on for-profit long-term care. Likewise, the for-profit lobby has given at least $340,477 in political donations to the Ontario PCs since 2007.
EXCLUSIVE: Children traumatized in Canadian detention centres
For an eight year-old girl with a violent background, 48 hours of detention in Canada was enough to prompt their development of selective mutism.
Burning the Wiphala Flag: How Canada and the U.S. fueled chaos in Bolivia
The ease with which the narrative of a fraudulent election was propagated, and the swift rise of right-wing forces in Bolivia, owes much to U.S. and Canadian foreign policy.
SNC-Lavalin affair recalls Harper’s bombing of Libya and a history of corporate power
If we are concerned for democracy, then that concern should manifest itself in a definable worry over corporate power that writes laws and engages in wars. They, more so than the leaders, are the constant problem.
A&W “watch list” technique to stop unions was leaked from anti-union conference
In exclusive recordings an outlet has documented a talk by A&W executives on how they keep their workplace “union-free.”
Ford cuts $130 million of funding to Ontario legal clinics sparking mass protest
The 30% cuts have meant lay-offs, lower case loads, and may cost the public much more in the end.
Ford government cancels changes to autism program after wide-spread protests and lay-offs
The flat rate of $5,000 a year would have been for everyone.
