Regions / North America / Canada
Articles about Canada, ordered by date. 
A personal welcome
In Canada, private sponsors are paying refugees’ resettlement costs. But should such a scheme be replicated elsewhere? Sian Griffiths reports.
Canadian teachers’ union victorious
The determination of thousands of teachers in Canada has finally paid off, writes Janet Nicol.
Trudeau Trumped
Richard Swift considers the Trump effect on Canada's prime minister.
CETA in the house
Campaigners hope to stop CETA before it goes through the European Parliament, Amy Hall writes.
How the Dutch could derail CETA
As thousands discuss free trade at the World Social Forum in Montreal, Canada’s experience with NAFTA may offer lessons for the Netherlands, writes Niels Jongerius.
Introducing... Justin Trudeau
Richard Swift on Canada's new prime minister.
Mine shafted
Jess Worth on indigenous Canadians' fight against a mine.
Sticky business
Canada has put all its eggs into one big basket full of tar sands. That’s a major mistake, argues Andrew Nikiforuk – for the country and the planet.
Obama’s ‘free trade’ voyages are another big mistake
New agreements that enhance corporate power are bad news, writes Mark Engler.
Québec’s Maple Spring
Richard Swift says Canada's wave of pots-and-pans protests signal the first major rupture with the austerity agenda.
Tears are good medicine
Young First Nations people in Manitoba tackle their number one problem – suicide among their peers. Janet Nicol reports.
The credit union boom
Fed up with being fleeced, North Americans are flocking to co-operative savings societies. Wayne Ellwood reports.
Canada quits Afghanistan, almost
Canadian troops are withdrawing from Afghanistan this month. In theory, at least, reports Wayne Ellwood.
Fracking the world
Hydraulic fracturing, or ‘fracking’ – Big Oil’s newest way to extract natural gas from an exhausted planet – comes with a terrible environmental price tag. Joyce Nelson digs deeper.
Stop the tar sands trade talks
A protest against opening the EU's doors to Canada's polluting tar sands
Cook feels the heat
Canadian ambassador to Guatemala guilty of slander
Taking on Tarmageddon
The international campaign to shut down the tar sands is shaping up to be an iconic battle, reports Jess Worth.
Bloody oil
Canadian First Nations internationalize their struggle against the most destructive project on earth
No room for bigots
Canadian multiculturalism is in rude health and has licked the kinds of problems that crop up in other countries. Haroon Siddiqui explains how.
