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Railway workers’ right to strike compromised by corporate regulatory capture

On August 24, the Canada Industrial Relations Board (CIRB) ordered railway corporations and workers to be back to work by the following Monday morning while it forces them into a binding arbitration process. The move put an end to the disruption—both strikes and lockouts.

10 years later: Lessons from the Lac-Mégantic rail disaster have not been heeded

It's been 10 years since an oil train killed 47 people in Lac-Mégantic. Decision-makers haven't learned the lessons of the disaster.

How to kill a zombie or the strange persistence of neoliberalism

Since the pandemic, many observers have proclaimed the death of neoliberalism—but is it really dead?

The pretense that Canada’s immigration system isn’t racist persists

Canada's immigration system is fundamentally based on exploitation of racialized workers.

Neoliberalism is like a zombie that won’t die

Neoliberalism is about power, but it’s also about the stories we tell