Oct 10, 2014
Just Eat It: A Food Waste Story
Redeye
Jen Rustemeyer and Grant Baldwin tackle the issue of food waste in a film about what happened when they stopped buying groceries for six months and survived exclusively on discarded food.
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Aug 13, 2014  How taxes have changed over the last half centuryIglika Ivanova A comprehensive analysis of all taxes that Canadian families actually pay shows clearly the erosion of tax fairness that accompanied the tax cuts of the early 2000s. |
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Jul 22, 2014  Perpetuating hegemony: How the left collaborates in its own defeatMichael Laxer 'Realism' is about as pure, mindless and ultimately cruel an ideological vision as you can get. And it is driven almost entirely by a craven thirst for personal power. |
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Jul 19, 2014 Thousands of Detroit residents face threat of water shutoffRedeye At least 300 demonstrators marched through Detroit streets today, protesting a move by the city’s water department to force thousands of customers to pay their bills or face a cutoff in service. |
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Jun 26, 2014  Ramadan leads to support for food banks, with Give 30Miriam Katawazi While preparing for Ramadan, a Toronto lawyer had an idea. Why not use the month of fasting to collect donations for food banks, and help the hungry? Give 30 was born. |
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Jun 17, 2014  DTES Toronto community groups want more supports and services, less policingJohn Bonnar Between June 16 and September 8, an additional 30 police officers will patrol the area from Wellesley south to Queen and from Church east to Parliament. |
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May 13, 2014  Dan Heap rememberedJohn Bonnar At this month's homeless memorial vigil in Toronto they honoured a man who spoke loudly and openly on behalf of homeless people. |
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May 11, 2014 $1.52 billion Northern Property REIT refuses to rent to Yellowknifers on income assistanceGeorge Lessard Northern Property REIT largest multi-family residential landlord in each of the NWT, Nunavut and the Province of Newfoundland and Labrador. |
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Apr 30, 2014  The fight to raise the minimum wage in OntarioTalking Radical Radio Sonia Singh and Anthony Tambureno talk about the province-wide struggle to increase the minimum wage in Ontario to a living wage of $14/hour. |
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Apr 16, 2014 Activist Communique: Fighting Back Against Cuts to Disability BenefitsKrystalline Kraus Fighting Back Against Cuts to Disability Benefits – from U.K to Ontario Austerity is Global – so is our resistance. |
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Apr 14, 2014  Sweat and tears made Chilean Habitat experience very specialOver the years I had been involved in numerous one-day volunteer projects but I knew that there was something beyond that, especially since my retirement left me the time to get involved. |
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Mar 27, 2014  A budget that builds a Nova Scotia economy for the peopleChristine Saulnier As we approach the release of the Nova Scotia provincial budget on April 3, Nova Scotians deserve to understand the range of choices facing our government. Will it be a budget for the 99%? |
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Mar 24, 2014 Time to end 'War on the Poor' protesters from across Ontario tell Premier at Liberal conventionAfter 11 years in power, the Liberals have not addressed the serious and growing problem of poverty in Ontario |
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Mar 12, 2014  Manitoba's 2014 budget is a leap forward for poverty reductionMolly McCracken Lynne Fernandez In its 2014 budget, Manitoba is taking action to provide marginalized people with the assistance they need to overcome barriers to education and employment. |
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Mar 10, 2014  IWD 2014: Women reduce inequality, but Canada can't coast on that much longerArmine Yalnizyan Every year when International Women's Day rolls by, I can't help but reflect on power, how it's shared, and how women use the power they have. |
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Mar 8, 2014 On International Women's Day we must remember that poverty and the minimum wage are gendered issuesMichael Laxer The minimum wage and social assistance rates are a basic and fundamental part of the struggle for women's equality. |
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Feb 20, 2014  Activist Community: Stop the War on the Poor rally in Toronto SaturdayKrystalline Kraus “Our pots and pans are empty, bring yours to bang!!!!!” |
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Feb 13, 2014  Evidence shows: Unions and collective bargaining reduce povertyDifferences in collective bargaining coverage explain about one-third of the differences in relative poverty across most of the industrialized world. |
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Feb 4, 2014  A living minimumOntario's new $11 an hour minimum wage leaves a full-time minimum wage worker about 20 per cent below the poverty line. Is doing almost nothing to be considered progress? |
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Jan 31, 2014 Minimum wage increase falls shortThe minimum wage increase announced by Ontario Premier Kathleen Wynne this morning is too small and locks in the poverty-level wages of the province’s lowest-paid workers, Unifor says. |
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Jan 24, 2014  Housing crunch continues in ManitobaPolicy Fix Across Canada, housing prices slowed down in 2013, but in Manitoba, there are no signs of the housing crunch abating. Last month, the average house price in Winnipeg surpassed $300,000. |
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Jan 23, 2014  Anti-poverty movement, meet the culture of medicineVanessa Brcic Many voices are calling for attention to poverty reduction and a living wage. But what happens when you add doctors into this conversation? Progress and challenges both. |
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Jan 22, 2014  The problem with Hudak's million jobs promiseTrish Hennessy Kayle Hatt Ontario Progressive Conservative Leader Tim Hudak has a new jobs plan to create a million new jobs over the next eight years. |
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Jan 17, 2014  Are higher minimum wages un-Canadian?Michal Rozworski Although Canada has not seen the kind of energized and far-reaching calls and protest movements for raising the minimum wage as the U.S., the working poor in this country face similar difficulties. |
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