By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Oct 18, 2017 The European aircraft manufacturing conglomerate Airbus has gained majority ownership of the ‘C Series’ passenger jet program of Montreal-based Bombardier Inc. The price to Airbus? Not a dime. How could …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Oct 12, 2017 (updated on Oct 13) Trade unions in Canada have campaigned for years, sort of, in favour of a rise in the minimum wage. But in most provinces, the campaigning been …
Compiled by A Socialist In Canada, Sept 23, 2017 Introduction by Roger Annis: The following commentary by Toronto Star columnist Rick Salutin is the most perceptive commentary yet written on the current leadership contest of Canada’s New Democratic Party. Four …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Sept 20, 2017 A commentary published in the Toronto Star on September 19 (full text below) reports that the awareness by Canadians of global warming and associated climate change is growing fast. The …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Sept 8, 2017 Statues, monuments, naming of public spaces and other public commemorations of the slavery Confederacy in the United States are under intense scrutiny and condemnation in the aftermath of the riot …
A Socialist In Canada, Aug 29, 2017. Letter by Roger Annis to the editor of the online The Tyee, published in British Columbia, Canada. The letter has been edited from its original, adding more background information. Vancouver BC August 25, …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Aug 23, 2017 Something terribly significant happened in Charlottesville, Virginia on August 11 and 12, 2017. It’s been reverberating around the world ever since. A movement of civil rights advocates and activists came …
Introduction by Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, Aug 12, 2017 The Liberal Party made two vital promises in its campaign during the October 2015 federal election in Canada. The promises were two big reasons why it won the election …
By Roger Annis, New Cold War.org, July 26, 2017 An arts columnist in Canada’s Globe and Mail national daily has penned a column calling for readers to protest the appearance in Toronto this coming November 10 of the Mariinsky Orchestra …
By Roger Annis, A Socialist In Canada, July 3, 2017 Something remarkable took place this year in Canada as the country officially marked 150 years since its constitutional founding on July 1, 1867. The official celebrations went rather awry. They …