October 26, 2022

4 Minutes

Canada Women and Gender

Dorise Nielsen: groundbreaking communist MP in Canada, people’s hero in China

PV October 26, 2022

By Mike Wu Norman Bethune is a well-known figure in the history of Canada–China relations. But there is another legendary figure: Dorise Nielsen, the first Member of Parliament from the Communist Party of Canada,...

3 Minutes

Canada

Code Blue… Act to defend public healthcare!

PV October 26, 2022

PV Staff Throughout the summer, news headlines routinely warned that Canada’s public healthcare system was collapsing as emergency rooms closed and exhausted healthcare workers cautioned that people and institutions were stretched to the limit. ...

3 Minutes

Canada

Smith’s election shines a light on broader political challenges in Alberta

PV October 26, 2022

By Naomi Rankin The recent election of Danielle Smith as premier is an indicator of how divorced the formal political process is from the real exercise of power in Alberta. The real power is...