Between 1918 and 1929, two entities – the Ontario Motion Picture Bureau and the Canadian Government Motion Picture Bureau, the first state-sponsored film organizations in the world – produced over a thousand silent films. These films took on a variety of subjects, among which were showcases of scenic attractions, celebration of industrial technology and educational … Keep reading »

The Struggle for Ontario's Universities and Colleges Ontario's higher education sector faces a perfect storm of austerity, rising precarity, and eroding academic freedom. This has provoked a sustained wave of resistance, marked by near-continuous faculty, staff, and student-worker strikes over recent years--exemplified by the recent OPSEU support staff strike. Learning from these Ontario struggles and … Keep reading »

The Leo Panitch School for Socialist Education is very pleased to present The Time that Remains (2009) as the next film in the FilmSocial series of socialist film screenings. "THE TIME THAT REMAINS is a semi-biographical film, in four episodes, about a family, my family, from 1948 until recent times. The film is inspired by … Keep reading »