🎧 Podcast: What you need to know about Air Canada’s flight attendants’ strike. PressProgress’ Labour Reporter Emma Arkell breaks down and explains everything you need to know about one of the most charged labour disputes in recent Canadian history.

Nurses in BC are weighing a strike vote over looming cuts to their health benefits. Across the province's whole health sector, staff shortages are running up against a government in austerity mode.

Nearly all federal funds for gender equality could disappear in the next two years. If the funding isn't renewed, Canada's Department for Women and Gender Equality could see its budget shrink by more than 80%. via @PivotQc.

The government's "eyebrow-raising" penchant for breaking up strikes finally met its match in the woman-dominated workforce of CUPE's Air Canada unit. Why the flight attendants' strike was "a perfect storm" for labour:.

The government used a controversial section of the Labour Code to order Air Canada employees back to work so as to “secure industrial peace." . How's *that* working out?.

Meet Brishti Basu, PressProgress’ new health reporter:. The promise of universal public healthcare has always been central to the ‘Canadian Dream’. Our new health reporter Brishti wants to help keep the dream alive.

Workers at Amazon and Uber, two companies notoriously difficult to organize, just formed unions in British Columbia. What makes BC's labour environment so special?.

Doug Ford plans to dismantle Ontario’s most popular provincial park. More than half the shoreline of Wasaga Beach could be opened to development.

Caught in the middle of a political battle, @BlackRock reaffirmed its focus is helping millions of Americans save for retirement. They warned that injecting politics from either side risks undermining financial performance.

There's a group of Albertans who are counting on America's help to break apart Canada. Fed up with finding a constitutional path to separation, the leaders of the Alberta Prosperity Project are looking for other means….

In what may be a Canadian first, a human rights tribunal has affirmed the right of an immunocompromised person to seek workplace accommodations. Disability advocates are praising the decision, saying it broadens the concept of accessible workplaces.

RT @pressprogress: Alberta Premier Danielle Smith floats idea of tax discounts to motivate women to produce more babies. Smith tells Sherwo….

Alberta Premier Danielle Smith floats idea of tax discounts to motivate women to produce more babies. Smith tells Sherwood Park town hall that Hungarian far-right leader Viktor Orbán has an “interesting” idea to boost birth rates and reduce immigration.

In the wake of Danielle Smith's reforms, Alberta health-care staffing is in turmoil, a new report by the @ParklandInst concludes. Researchers found that *a third* of allied health-care workers frequently think about quitting their jobs.

RT @pressprogress: NEW: Freedom Convoy founding organizer says he is seeking political asylum in the United States. To avoid his upcoming c….

NEW: Freedom Convoy founding organizer says he is seeking political asylum in the United States. To avoid his upcoming criminal trial in Canada, James Bauder says he is ‘living in exile’ and enlisting support from Trump allies.

When Metrolinx hooked up with European rail experts, the result was a "slow-motion train wreck.". The Trillium's @jackhauen breaks down why we (well, Ontario) can't have nice things.

I had so much fun recording this Disney classic—can you name the song? Follow for more fun covers and timeless favorites brought to life in a fresh way.

It was supposed to be the big coming-out bash for Canada's newest group of separatists. But the Republican Party of Alberta did not have the night it wanted.

Doug Ford has been busy!. In the past ~2 months, his government has proposed or passed a flurry of laws with the potential to reshape Ontario. There's no way you've been able to keep up with it all. So we spoke to @jackhauen, who has.

RT @pressprogress: June is a significant month to meet financial targets, and we need 50 new members before the end of the month to ensure….

Activists spent a decade getting cops out of Ontario’s schools. Now, Doug Ford’s government is about to put them all back.