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Climate Mobilization in View of the COP26
1. Disasters, of which extreme weather events linked to climate change are the main cause, have doubled in 20 years, killing more than 1.2 million people worldwide since 2000. Record … Keep reading »
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Transit Justice Struggles in Toronto: Statement on the TTC Fare Review
The Toronto Transit Commission (TTC) is developing a 5-year fare policy review and plan, along with a 10-year “collection” outlook, both to be included in a policy framework by the … Keep reading »
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End of the Road for the AKP?
In Istanbul, 2021 began with hundreds of students initiating a series of protests on the campus of Boǧaziçi University. They were demonstrating against President Recep Tayyip Erdoǧan’s January 1 appointment … Keep reading »
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Activists Block General Dynamics Armoured Vehicles Bound for Saudi Arabia: Demand Canada Stop Fueling War in Yemen
On March 26, Members of anti-war organizations World BEYOND War, Labour Against the Arms Trade, and People for Peace London blocked railway tracks near General Dynamics Land Systems-Canada, a London-area … Keep reading »
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Capitalizing on the COVID Crisis: the Ford Government’s Move to Privatize Public Education for EdTech
In The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein demonstrated how neoliberalism was not always advanced in society through democracy, but was instead pushed on society by powerful elites behind the public’s back … Keep reading »
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Hardships and Authoritarianism: Understanding Politics in the Philippines
On Sunday March 7, nine human rights activists were killed and six others arrested in coordinated police and military actions in the Philippines. This was an escalation of the state … Keep reading »
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Reform of Quebec’s Workplace Health-and-Safety Regime: “Social Partnership” or Class Struggle?
Last January, the Institut national de santé publique du Québec (INSPQ – National Institute of Public Health) published a report on non-traumatic musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). These are pains and other … Keep reading »
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Biden Continues the US Conflict With China Through the Quad
On March 12, the heads of government of four countries, Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison, Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi, Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga, and the United States President … Keep reading »
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The Struggle for Water Justice is a Struggle for Gender and Racial Justice
The essay is published in honour of World Water Day, which has been held every year on March 22 since 1993. The goal of this day is to celebrate water … Keep reading »
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Is Inflation a Threat?
Many conservative economists and policy-makers, not least the C. D. Howe Institute and its corporate allies, are sounding the alarm about potential inflation in the opinion pages of the Globe … Keep reading »
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Ethiopia: Between Famine and Military Stalemate
During the liberation war from the mid-seventies to the early 1990s, Paulos Tesfagiorgis was head of the Eritrean Relief Agency (ERA), the central organism that organized the provision of goods … Keep reading »
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Closing the Enforcement Gap: The Pandemic and Precarious Employment
As of March 15th, Ontario will have spent a full year in some form of lockdown. More than 22,000 Ontarians have died from COVID-19, hundreds of thousands of jobs have … Keep reading »