The major issues currently facing the approximately 50,000 postal workers across the country include real wage cuts, increased workloads and speed-up, multi-tier pay scales, and aggressive bullying from management.
Canada’s new indigenous governor general and the crisis of bourgeois rule
On the recommendation of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, Canada’s monarch Queen Elizabeth II has named Mary Simon the country’s 30th Governor General. The political establishment and corporate media have rushed to hail the appointment of Simon, a long-standing state functionary, as “historic,” because she is Inuit and the first indigenous person to ever serve as “the Queen’s representative,” that is Canada’s acting head of state.
Justin Trudeau and Governor General designate Mary Simon at an announcement of Canada’s next Governor General [Source: Wikimedia Commons]