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Ubisoft Halifax Workers Win Certification Vote, Officially Join CWA Canada!

2025-12-18 // 0 Comments

HALIFAX (Dec. 18, 2025) – Six months to the day after filing for union certification, video game workers at Ubisoft Halifax have been certified to join CWA Canada. The Nova [Read more...]

CWA Canada Urges Competition Bureau to Scrutinize $55-billion Electronic Arts Buyout

2025-12-12 // 0 Comments

OTTAWA (Dec. 12) – Following Electronic Arts’ (EA) October announcement of a proposed $55-billion buyout, CWA Canada President Carmel Smyth and CWA President Claude [Read more...]

Women are always the first target of extremism, warns IFJ

2025-11-24 // 0 Comments

On the eve of International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women, the International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) warns that the global rise of extremism poses [Read more...]

Celebrating 15 Years of The Story Board, Canada’s Longest-Running Blog for Freelancers

2025-11-20 // 0 Comments

The Canadian Freelance Guild (CFG), the country’s largest organization representing media freelancers, and a CWA Canada affiliate, is marking a major milestone: the 15th [Read more...]

Battling misinformation in the community: The Media Literacy Project

2025-10-08 // 0 Comments

By Hayley Juhl The catalysts for the Media Literacy Project were three conversations, two of which were with my teenager. “Beyoncé was behind Aaliyah’s death,” she [Read more...]

Celebrating CWA Canada’s historic autonomy agreement

2025-10-08 // 0 Comments

In the new year, CWA Canada will celebrate 20 years of a unique and historic autonomy agreement within the North American labour movement. In 2006, we signed a memorandum of [Read more...]

Open Letter on Postmedia’s Abuse of Canadian Taxpayers’ Money

2025-09-29 // 0 Comments

Postmedia Network Inc. [“PNI”] is Canada’s largest newspaper chain. The company receives millions of dollars in government funding through the Canada Periodical [Read more...]

Bargaining bootcamp for CWA Canada leaders

2025-09-14 // 0 Comments

Stagnant wages, heavy workloads, and lack of job security were among the topics as two dozen CWA Canada leaders and activists from locals across the country met in Ottawa on [Read more...]

Notes from the CWA Convention – Pittsburgh 2025

2025-08-14 // 0 Comments

Due to concerns about the dignity and safety of Canadian delegates crossing the U.S. border, a smaller than usual group of CWA Canada members attended the biennial convention [Read more...]

PEI Newspaper Workers Win Unionization with CWA Canada

2025-07-30 // 0 Comments

CHARLOTTETOWN (July 30, 2025) – After fighting and waiting nearly two years to belong to a union, newspaper workers in Prince Edward Island are celebrating today. [Read more...]