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What happened to Canada's drug production capacity? It was dismantled for profit and greed. John Bell weighs in: "Essentially Canada lost its independent productive capacity with the election of Brian Mulroney’s Tory government, and their agenda of privatization and globalized trade deals like NAFTA. So when trade rules were changed to favour globalized production, Canadian labs got bought out by big multinationals."

Dozens of tents set up outside Hamilton City Hall in protest of the massive police budget and the City's social cleansing policies against homeless encampments.... In the midst of the second CoVID wave the City politicians and the Police Services are choosing to spend money on harassing the poor and starving social services of need funds while the police run surpluses and spend it military hardware. Latest news is bylaw officers are threatening to tear down tents. If you're in Hamilton stop to show support #nojusticenopeace #Defundthepolice @DefundHPS See more

During the past month, the Secwepemc nation had set up a camp at Mission Flats, Kamloops, along the proposed route of the Trans-Mountain pipeline expansion. The watch house at Burnaby Mountain is starting up again, the tiny house warriors at Blue River are still holding their territory, and the Holmes Creek camp is being improved to survive the coming winter. These are some updates on just a few direct action camps across BC.

On Monday November 23, tenants and allies gathered in Dentonia Park in Toronto’s east end in solidarity with families facing eviction this month. Organized by People’s Defence and local tenant unions, the community rally laid out how the Landlord and Tenant Board (LTB) has become an eviction machine during the pandemic. While Toronto mayor John Tory, Ontario premier Doug Ford and public health officials urge people to stay home during the second wave of COVID-19, tenants ar...e being forced out of their homes by ruthless landlords, the LTB, sheriffs and Toronto police. They are being punished for loss of work and income due to the Covid crisis and this is happening as winter arrives. Over the next week, 75 eviction hearings will decide on the fate of many local residents. Organizers vow to return to Dentonia Park on Friday, November 27 at 5:30pm to demand No Covid Evictions, and Covid rent relief now! For more info: on Facebook @PeoplesDefenceTO See more

http://www.socialist.ca/node/4216 Ford is using COVID emergency powers to scrap environmental regulation and hand the protected Greenbelt over to his real estate buddies. The latest Left JAB breaks down the Tory lies and betrayals.

Activists gather outside City Hall in Hamilton to demand the police services face a 50% budget reduction and it's current surplus be allocated to housing and social services. Activists intend to set up and encampment to protest the lack of funding for housing, and the Cities attacks on the homeless while continually increasing the police budget. #nojusticenopeace #noracistpolice

Join the picket line! Support Tropicana strikers. "It’s been over a year that we’ve been trying to negotiate a fair deal with management. Some of us have had 15 years of wages freezes and they want us to accept another 3 or 4 years. I can’t hold on for that long.

ONE LAST URGENT PUSH TO TRY TO STOP BILL 218 THAT INDEMNIFIES FOR-PROFIT LTC FROM LIABILITY FOR NEGLIGENCE IN COVID-19

Joint statement by revolutionary socialists in Turkey and Russia on the situation in Karabakh