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The Crisis at Canada Post
With its recent announcement to ‘modernize’ Canada Post, the Mark Carney government has, for all intents and purposes, dusted off the Harper-era “Five Point Action Plan” aimed at gutting the … Keep reading »
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No Fair Play Under Occupation: FIFA’s Neutrality Amidst Israel’s Genocide in Palestine
As the 2026 FIFA World Cup approaches, the world’s largest sporting event is set to unfold against the backdrop of Israel’s ongoing mass atrocities in Gaza and a growing global … Keep reading »
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Allan Gardens, Toronto: Protest and Public Space
For centuries, various Annishinaabe First Nations – among them the Mississauga, Ojibwe, and others – inhabited territories on the northern shores of Lake Ontario, one of the Great Lakes that … Keep reading »
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Palestinian Civil Society Reacts to the Trump-Netanyahu Genocidal Plan
In response to the illegal, colonial Israeli-US “Trump plan,” Palestinian civil society insists on full Palestinian rights and calls for escalating BDS pressure to end all state, corporate and institutional complicity with Israel’s regime of settler-colonialism, military occupation, apartheid, and genocide. Keep reading »
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Trump’s America: Echoes of a Fascist Past
“Historically, the most terrible things war, genocide, and slavery have resulted not from disobedience, but from obedience.” — Howard Zinn The irony is unbearable. US President Donald Trump has saturated … Keep reading »
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Mobility as a Project for a Dignified Life
“What best defines public transport today is exhaustion.” This is the opening quote of the documentary short film Tarifa Zero: cidade em disputa (Fare-Free Public Transport: An Urban Battle), summing … Keep reading »
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AI and Education: The Kids are in Danger
Big tech, ever on the hunt for new markets for their generative artificial intelligence (AI) systems, are pushing hard to get them into public schools as well as colleges and … Keep reading »
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How to Reduce the Hidden Environmental Costs of Supply Chains
Global supply chains account for 70% of world trade. They are the arteries of global capitalism, moving goods and services across borders multiple times before reaching consumers. Since the early … Keep reading »
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Climate Destruction – The Irresponsibility of Capitalist Societies
Within a historically short period, capitalist society has generated enormous wealth but also caused profound ecological degradation and threats to survival. Yet the capitalist market economy is incapable of resolving … Keep reading »
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France’s ‘Block Everything’ Anti-Austerity Movement Could Point the Way for Europe
Before it ends up being repressed, the wind of revolt sweeping through the squares of France must be transformed into a comprehensive, alternative economic policy project. Keep reading »
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Labour Leaders Must Advance BDS, or Step Aside
In his Prison Notebooks, Antonio Gramsci invokes the “Fable of the Beaver” to critique the political failings of party leaders who compromise their obligation to represent the classes that raised … Keep reading »
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The Intertwined Food and Climate Emergency: Heeding Science
This is an astonishing world. Blame for current disasters cannot be offloaded to ‘human nature’. All who take care of children know that children can learn to live within limits … Keep reading »