Luke Savage

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The Air Canada strike wasn’t just a win for workers. It was also a wrench in Mark Carney’s plans

The Air Canada strike wasn’t just a win for workers. It was also a wrench in Mark Carney’s plans

On Saturday morning, some 10,000 Air Canada flight attendants chose to exercise their constitutionally-enshrined right to strike and walked off the job. Only a few hours later, the federal government intervened to declare the action illegal and send the matter to binding arbitration. Both the Carney government and management at Air Canada, it seemed, assumed things would simply end there...

Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision

Mark Carney won on a promise of strong but fair Canada. This is how he is betraying that vision

Throughout last spring’s federal election campaign, Mark Carney made liberal use of two very potent slogans from Canada’s political past. The first — about the need for Canadians to become “Masters in our own home” — hailed from Quebec’s Quiet Revolution. The second — a pledge to transform the Canadian economy by “taking control of its economic destiny” — was...