People's Voice (French: Voix du peuple) is a Canadian newspaper published fortnightly by New Labour Press Ltd.
The paper's editorial line reflects the viewpoints of the Communist Party of Canada, although it also runs articles by other leftist voices.
Produced in Toronto and printed at a union press in Hamilton, People's Voice contains news and editorial content related to Canadian and international political issues of government, social movements, and class struggle.
Progressive, socialist and trade union newspapers have a long history in Canada, going back to the 19th century.
But there was no all-Canada, English-speaking left-wing press until the Communist Party of Canada was founded in 1921, and its leaders decided to publish a newspaper.
This was several months before the Communist Party was banned in June 1940, when the Canadian government issued an Order in Council.
[7] Shortly after being shut down by the Dominion government, the paper began printing (at first) underground under the name Canadian Tribune.
The Canadian edition was briefly a daily before returning to the previous weekly schedule and was later converted to tabloid format.
The present incarnation of the paper began, first, with the amalgamation of the Canadian Tribune and its second Pacific edition in the early 1990s, during the internal crisis in the Communist Party.
With the split in the Communist Party and the establishment of the Cecil-Ross Society, two publications resulted: The New Times or "TNT" for short, was the direct continuation of The Tribune.
The remaining staff still in the party began to publish People's Voice in March 1993 as a tabloid; it continues to the present.
The paper has been sharply critical of the policies of Stephen Harper's Conservative government of Canada and what it describes as attacks on democratic rights, social programmes, aboriginal peoples, women, students, the environment, and Canadian sovereignty.