Keen to depict anyone not swearing fealty to the oilsands as a traitor, Kenney will paint Canada as a country plunging towards disintegration if Ottawa fails to expand pipelines and end the carbon...

Privatization lies at the heart of the calamity that turned Ontario’s nursing homes into COVID death traps. Ford’s zeal for privatization runs deep.

Prime Minster Trudeau’s desperation to come up with a domestic vaccine producer now that he’s learned, in a crisis, friendly nations don’t have our interests top of mind; they vaccinate their own...

The premier will spend $400 million to build a parking garage for spa users, while scrimping on basic educational materials in Ontario’s schools.

Sure the battle to limit global heating is costly. But so is losing your house to floods, the end of the fishing industry and forests levelled by fire.

The two levels of government will together provide as much as $685-million to fund new technology projects to be carried out

Canada never came close to hitting the so-called “debt wall” in the 1990s and is not in danger from government spending during the pandemic.

Eliminating the secrecy would force governments to develop a backbone in dealing with private companies.

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Formal announcement of the gun ban is expected by the end of the week, but the key measures have already been approved by cabinet

If you’re covered by OHIP, all medically necessary hospital and physician services must be provided without extra user charges.

The rise of extreme inequality has provoked growing calls for an annual wealth tax on the super-rich around the world, and Canada is no exception. Backed by a growing body of economic research,...

Mutations of COVID-19 virus could leave Canada at behest of other nations without its own manufacturing capabilities

Canada never came close to hitting the so-called “debt wall” in the 1990s and is not in danger from government spending during the pandemic.

“We need to speed things up and we need to get the vaccines in as soon as possible,” said Dr. Anna Banerji, an infectious disease specialist at the Dalla Lana School of Public Health at the Univers...

In the trucker protests, it’s meritocrats versus populists and the virtual against the physical.

The arguments being trotted out against a wealth tax are facile. Such a measure enjoys wide public support, and would be the simplest and fairest way to collect billions of extra dollars of revenue a...

The health care system is struggling because the Ford government is starving it of funds — and the way to fix it is for Ford to inject those funds.

Conservative Leader Pierre Poilievre is hoping working people won’t notice that he’s not, in fact, offering them a return to economic security.

Whether or not Prime Minister Justin Trudeau shuffles her to a new cabinet post on Wednesday, Chrystia Freeland's imprint on Canada's foreign policy will remain visible for some time to come,

Alberta’s management of its economy should be seen as nothing short of a disaster — something to keep in mind as Jason Kenney and his followers push for maintaining the pro-corporate model in the...

Past union victories dramatically improved the ability of workers to afford a good life — but you won’t catch Poilievre talking about that.

Amid bread shortages, Cuba gets one step closer to a scientific milestone: the mass production of a coronavirus vaccine invented on the island.

The premier seeks a made-in-Ontario vaccine for COVID-19. The province’s former public lab, Connaught Labs, played a vital role in the creation of the polio vaccine.

University governors voted to pull investments from fossil fuel companies to support a ‘sustainable future’

Prime Minister Brian Mulroney privatized Connaught Labs in the 1980s, stripping Canada of its ability to produce its own vaccines.

Suddenly the Bank of Canada is creating vast amounts of money, which the federal government is distributing to Canadians across the country. Nobody told us we could do that! In fact, it’s just what’s...

If Canadians really want a biotech company we can rely on and that doesn’t hold a gun to our head, we should spend our money creating an enterprise that we actually own and control.

Why is the Trudeau government not supporting sensible policy to help vaccinate millions of people living in the poorest continent in the Global South? This is likely because Ottawa is in thrall to...

The situation should alert us more broadly to the foolishness of our rush to privatize services that would be better left to the public sector — not just nursing homes but health care, education and...

Her new book, The Sport and Prey of Capitalists: How the Rich are Stealing Canada’s Public Wealth, looks back nostalgically at past government forays into business, but she leaves out a lot and...

A coalition of health activists held demonstrations in support of the patent waiver on Thursday at the offices of pharmaceutical companies in the United States, South Africa and other countries

Most people can imagine that these animals experience some unpleasantness the last day or two of their lives but few people realize there are effectively no laws protecting their welfare during the...

The widely reported propane shortage in Ontario and Québec appears to be largely manufactured by Canadian National Railway (CN).

CLC President Hassan Yussuff said the fact that the vast majority of Canadians who have died from COVID-19 lived or worked in long-term care facilities should be a wake-up call for governments

If Canadians really want a biotech company we can rely on and that doesn’t hold a gun to our head, we should spend our money creating an enterprise that we actually own and control.

The province struck a deal with a broker – a U.S. company called LDR Investment – for 100 million N95 masks. They never arrived, and LDR told The Globe its third-party supplier didn’t follow through

It feels like we’re up against human stupidity when we’re really up against a highly organized group of cunning and ruthless corporate barons with the biggest war-chest of all time and legions of...

Christine Elliott’s recent reference to “private hospitals” was brief but, for veterans of health care battles, it stood out like a bleeding appendage

In this week’s federal election, the party platform that came closest to addressing today’s grotesque inequality was the NDP’s proposal for an annual net wealth tax — a modest version of the wealth...

Having secured Ottawa’s finest parking spots, the foreign-funded truckers behaved like they’d been handed keys to the city, which in a way they had.

Pierre Poilievre’s treason allegation is bereft of evidence yet he’s still hoping to ride this runaway horse to victory in the next election.

Canada is meddling in Venezuela’s internal affairs while defending the rule-of-law but also supports the U.S., which has open plans to take over the South American country’s oil reserves.

Biggest: Notley and her party chased conservative converts who don’t actually exist.

Andray Domise: The myth of this country's 'peacekeeping' nature lets it get away with destabilizing and taking advantage of less powerful nations