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Doug Ford’s New Long-Term-Care Legislation, Tolls for All of Us
Hope to live out your old age in dignity and comfort? Think again, after Ontario Premier Doug Ford’s “new” long-term-care legislation, Bill 37, was rushed through with furtive speed, just … Keep reading »
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Ukrainians Are Far From Unified on NATO: Let Them Decide for Themselves
After weeks of media scare about a purported Russian military invasion of Ukraine, the conflict may get a chance to be solved in a negotiated way. The public conversation on … Keep reading »
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One World or No World. Choose!
The emergence of yet another COVID variant as well as a surge of new infections and restrictions have people wondering if this pandemic will ever end. We’ve known how to … Keep reading »
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Free Transit Movement Making Inroads
Late afternoon on December 9th, volunteers with the advocacy group Free Transit Ottawa stood near the doors of St. Laurent Shopping Centre, thrusting leaflets into the hands of people hurrying … Keep reading »
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Bringing Precarity Home: Digitized Piece Work and the Fiction of Flexibility
The COVID-19 pandemic has accelerated a global transition to digital mediation of work. For some, this has meant work previously done at office desks can now be performed remotely. However … Keep reading »
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Averting Disaster: Declaration of the 5th European Forum of the Left
The crisis caused by the spread of COVID-19 across the planet has revealed all the contradictions, limitations and deficiencies of a neoliberal, predatory and unsupportive model of society. Keep reading »
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Increased US Military Spending Means More Militarism, Imperialism, and War
The US Congress is completely divided, Republicans versus Democrats. Except when it comes to the military. Bills for working people can’t be passed. But there’s always money for the generals … Keep reading »
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Citing Wet’suwet’en Law, Hereditary Chiefs evict Coastal GasLink from their Territory
Supporters of the Wet’suwet’en Hereditary Chiefs announced on December 19 that they have reoccupied a worksite on the Coastal GasLink pipeline route in the nation’s territory, in northern British Columbia. … Keep reading »
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Swords into Ploughshares
Simon Black, lead organizer with Labour Against the Arms Trade, speaks to Sam Gindin, former research director of the Canadian Auto Workers (now Unifor), about the promise of repurposing the … Keep reading »
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The Coronavirus Pandemic has Widened Global Inequalities
Confronted with the coronavirus pandemic that started at the end of 2019-beginning of 2020, the governments of long-standing imperialist powers and private pharmaceutical corporations have widened the gap between the Global North and the Global South. Keep reading »
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Starbucks Workers Victorious in Their Fight for a Union
It is hugely significant that even one café out of thousands in the iconic Starbucks coffee chain has beaten back the company’s union-busting tactics to choose collective power in the workplace. Keep reading »
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Whales versus Militarism: Saving or Destroying the World’s Climate?
The US military is famous for being the single largest consumer of petroleum products in the world and the largest emitter of greenhouse gases. Its carbon emissions exceed those released … Keep reading »