Samuel Helguero - The Post Millennial

'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.

Politics & Policy

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.

Politics & Policy

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.

Politics & Policy

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.

International News

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.

Canadian News

'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.

News

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.

Culture

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.

Canadian News

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.

Canadian News

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.

Opinion

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.

Opinion

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.

Business & Finance

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.”

Canadian News

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.

Canadian News

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.

Canadian News

Nationwide manhunt pursues two Canadian teens, one prone to violent comments and praising Hitler

His personal history includes threats to classmates, hints at his desire to commit suicide, and posts featuring Nazi parphenelia.

Canadian News

High-profile Amazon meeting targets Canadian unions

In October 2017, Amazon quietly held a meeting with its Toronto-based delivery companies. The members of the meeting signed a non-disclosure agreement and were told to keep all talk in the gathering on the hush-hush.

Canadian News

Avoiding Uncle Sam: Tax Haven leaks implicate Canadian companies like SNC-Lavalin

Mauritius, an African island east of Madagascar and smaller than Ottawa, may seem like a little fish in a big sea. However, for the international business community, including companies as notorious as SNC-Lavalin, it is anything but insignificant.

Opinion

Will radical climate policy kill the economy?

I was very proud of my home city, Montreal, last March. After determined organizing efforts, 150,000 people, roughly 8.5% of…

Ontario hospitals at risk for drastic underfunding

A report released earlier this month finds Ontario’s hospital sector to be at risk of dramatic underfunding.

Business & Finance

Canada Post paid $21 million in legal fees to fight union

Six years after an initial access to information request, the Star has revealed Canada Post spent an exorbitant sum of $21 million in legal fees to fight a pay equity case that stretched over decades.