[Canada is alive with resistance]
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GLOBAL LEFT MIDWEEK – FOCUS ON CANADA  
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July 19, 2023
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_ Canada is alive with resistance _

Hundreds of Toronto tenants turn out for rent strike rally Saturday.
Credit, CityNews Toronto

 

* The Left Lacks Leadership
* Breakthrough in Toronto
* Tide Turning for Worker Action?
* Wildfires and Indigenous Land Protectors
* Québec’s Climate Victory
* Tenants Confront Housing Crisis
* ILWU on Strike
* Vancouver Hotel Workers
* Turmoil in the Assembly of First Nations
* The Legacy of the Organized Working Women

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THE LEFT LACKS LEADERSHIP
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_Kathleen O'Hara_ / rabble.ca (Toronto)

Something is wrong with how we choose leaders and allow them to act!
We need to redefine our democracy at every level from groups to
parties to governments. Excite people about the importance of their
voices and participation! In fact, at the base of all my comments is
the need for thoughtful, profound culture change. 

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BREAKTHROUGH IN TORONTO
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_David Rider and Alyshah Hasham_ / Toronto Star

Progress Toronto grew up in opposition, with petitions and protests,
banging on the doors of city hall. Now, to the surprise of many,
including some in the political advocacy group, those city hall doors
have swung wide open. Former NDP MP Olivia Chow is mayor. Former
Progress Toronto executive director Michal Hay is her chief of staff.

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TIDE TURNING FOR WORKER ACTION?
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_Adam D.K. King_ / The Maple (Calgary)

If recent strike activity and union wage settlement data are any
indication, Canadian union members seem to be on the march in a way
they haven’t been since at least the onset of the pandemic. Labour
is losing out on a chance to both learn by example and inspire further
efforts by workers to fight for what they deserve.

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WILDFIRES AND INDIGENOUS LAND PROTECTERS
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_Brian Osgood_ / Al Jazeera (Doha)

With Canada in the throes of a record-breaking early wildfire season,
the country’s Indigenous communities, which include First Nations,
Metis, and Inuit peoples, say it is time for them to be given a more
prominent role in shaping the country’s approach to fire and forest
management.

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QU
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CLIMATE VICTORY
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_Louis Ramirez_ / The Breach (Montréal)

A movement bringing together environmentalists, farmers, hunters,
labour activists, Indigenous nations, and progressive politicians,
managed to force a conservative provincial government to agree to keep
all oil and gas in the ground—the first state in the world to do
it. Quebec’s ban on hydrocarbon exploration represents a massive
social movement victory, but the story of it has never been fully
told.

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NEXT STEPS FOR TENANT ORGANIZING
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_Vanessa Balintec_ / CBC News (Ottawa)

Striking tenants who are refusing to pay big rent increases in several
buildings in Toronto's west end say they've been flooded with support
from across the country. York South-Weston Tenant Union organizer
Bruno Dobrusin said support for their rent strike has been
"overwhelming." Not only are people paying attention, but he
said they're interested in learning how to organize themselves.

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ILWU STILL ON STRIKE
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_Amy Judd_ / Global News (Toronto)

British Columbia’s port workers are back on the picket lines. The
International Longshore and Warehouse Union Canada and the B.C.
Maritime Employers Association first announced a tentative agreement
was reached last week, but the employer said the union —
representing thousands of port workers — has backed out.

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VANCOUVER HOTEL WORKERS
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_Emma Arkell_ / Jacobin (New York)

The owners of a Vancouver hotel cashed in millions from government
programs and then fired over 140 workers. The workers fought back, and
now their labor dispute has surpassed the two-year mark, marking it as
Canada’s longest ongoing strike.

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TURMOIL IN THE ASSEMBLY OF FIRST NATIONS
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_Christine Sy and Joyce Green_ / Canadian Dimension (Winnipeg)

The Assembly of First Nations (AFN) is a political organization that
advocates on behalf of First Nations with the federal
government. RoseAnne Archibald was the first female national chief,
elected in 2021. Prompted by her ousting on June 28—at a virtual
special chiefs assembly—we are compelled to speak out again of the
events of the last few weeks and days.

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THE LEGACY OF THE ORGANIZED WORKING WOMEN
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_Kaitlin Peters_ / Spring (Toronto)

The 1975 women’s conference “Women in the Workforce, It’s About
Time,” co-sponsored by the Labour Council of Metropolitan Toronto
and Humber College Women’s Centre, established Organized Working
Women. The OWW sought to reach any woman who was a member of a bona
fide collective bargaining unit to “convince the organized labour
movement to take up the cause of working women.”

* Canada
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* Canadian Left
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* Toronto
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* Olivia Chow
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* Progress Toronto
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* Canadian Labor
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* wildfires
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* First Nations
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* QUebec
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* Climate
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* tenants' organizations
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* rent strike
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* ILWU
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* strike
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* Vancouver
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* Hotel workers
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* Assembly of First Nations
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* Organized Women Workers
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* RoseAnne Archibald
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