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Vancouver Rape Relief & Women's Shelter
January 21
A B.C. Human Rights Tribunal ruling contests the right to women-only space. That's the view of the rape crisis centre on the losing end of last Friday's decision. Vancouver Rape Relief must pay Kimbe |
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B.C. Teachers' Federation
January 18
The B.C. Teachers' Federation is "appalled" by massive cuts announced yesterday by Premier Gordon Campbell. The cuts will have devastating impacts on communities, seniors, children and families. "It' |
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Canadian Union of Public Employees
January 18
It's an old political game: Prepare people to expect the worst ... then deliver something a little better than the worst — and people are relieved. Well, an old politician (Don Mazankowski) and |
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Council of Canadians
January 17
Three Canadian groups are in court today to appeal their exclusion from a seminal trade dispute. A NAFTA tribunal has denounced a Canadian ban on PCB waste exports — ordering up to US$20-millio |
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Amnesty International
January 17
Canada is ignoring a request from the U.N. Human Rights Committee for more time to assess the risk of torture for a man about to be deported to Iran. Mansour Ahani may be deported as early as today, |
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in cahoots
January 17
Big Tobacco is breathing easy. Health advocates are fuming. The B.C. Liberals announced new regulations today governing workplace smoking. The regulations veto new rules developed last year by B.C.'s |
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working TV
January 16
Thousands of teachers and supporters rallied in Vancouver on Saturday to demand a negotiated settlement in their contract dispute. Months into bargaining, talks remain stalled across the board — |
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Sierra Club of Canada
January 15
The environmental community is mourning the loss of a tireless campaigner and a friend. Irene Kock, 41, died in an auto accident on New Year's Eve. Irene recently joined the Sierra Club of Canada aft |
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Childcare Resource & Research Unit
January 15
Child care advocates were feeling upbeat in 1986. The federal Task Force on Child Care had just released a report calling for universal child care by 2001. It was all about ensuring healthy child dev |
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Canadian Union of Postal Workers
January 14
By the time Canadians turfed them in 1993, the federal Tories had closed down 1,500 rural post offices. The Liberals stopped that project, but can't seem to contain a new threat. United Parcel Servic |
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CAW
January 12
"Today, I am angry and frustrated." Canadian Auto Workers president Buzz Hargrove reacted today to Ford Motor Company's plans to close a truck plant in Oakville, Ontario. Pointing to the plant's prof |
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Amnesty International
January 11
Canada's Supreme Court today tightened the conditions under which suspected "terrorists" can be deported to countries where they may face torture. The ruling compels Canada to reconsider its decision |
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International Fund for Animal Welfare
January 10
You're no pansy. Your confident hands grip that rifle firmly. The thick bush helps you forget you're in a fenced space the size of a ball diamond. Whoa. Something rustles fifteen metres ahead. An Afr |
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Council of Canadians
January 9
A commissioned report directs Alberta to allow more health services to be provided privately and to consider withdrawing public coverage for others. The report comes from a panel led by Don Mazankows |
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Canadian Union of Public Employees
January 9
Alberta Premier Ralph Klein says medicare is breaking in his province. So his government commissioned the "Mazankowski Report," released yesterday, whose recommendations include new gestures toward p |
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
January 8
Provincial law defines a floor below which the harshest employer cannot sink. In BC, the government wants to punch holes in that floor by excluding some workers from labour laws governing issues like |
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Pro-Choice Action Network
January 8
Heard about the link between abortion and breast cancer? It even has a popular name: The ABC Link. Anti-abortion groups continue to promote it as though it were established fact. But it's not. In a n |
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January 7
Eight more Canadian groups have become <i>in cahoots</i> partners since early November. Their contributions help sustain this rabble-rousing online magazine. We'd like you to meet them. |
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Amnesty International
December 22
We've been bludgeoned this year by news of rights abuses — across the globe and in our own backyard. But 2001 also brought some remarkable achievements. Lurking behind many of them is the tirele |
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December 21
Ontarians received more proof this Monday that the Tory government aims to privatize public education, says Earl Manners, president of the Ontario Secondary School Teachers' Federation (OSSTF). "Led |
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Democracy Watch
December 20
The federal Liberals have commanded this land through three majority governments. They got there by taking just 41, 38, and 41 per cent of votes cast in their three crowning elections. Meanwhile, de |
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B.C. Teachers' Federation
December 18
You're a teacher in BC. You've been without a contract since June. Fifty days into bargaining, the employer is still laughing at your wage proposals — still threatening to kill class size limits |
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working TV
December 18
Citizens calling themselves the Teddy Bear Brigade moved into Liberal MP Stephen Owen's Vancouver-Quadra constituency office last Wednesday. Owen is one key architect of Bill-C-36 — the "anti-te |
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Amnesty International
December 17
Twelve-year-old Agnes Lamin is abducted into life as a "guerrilla girl" in Sierra Leone. A death row inmate trudges through a dark world of coerced confession and withheld evidence. An Alabama segreg |
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International Fund for Animal Welfare
December 15
Canadian guns, clubs and hakapiks could kill 275,000 harp seals in 2002. That matches this year's total allowable catch. But even as the Fisheries Minister made that announcement, Herb Dhaliwal relea |
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Council of Canadians
December 14
Activists are warning Loblaws shoppers about President's Choice products this Christmas, following the company's admission that their products may contain genetically engineered (GE) ingredients. Lob |
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Sierra Club of Canada
December 13
Six environmental groups say they could solve the softwood lumber dispute that continues to strangle Canada's foresty industry. They say their proposals would satisfy U.S. complaints about Canadian p |
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Amnesty International
December 12
Political killings felled more than 4,000 Colombians last year. That probably exceeds the horrific death toll of September 11. In Colombia's labyrinthine 30-year civil war, the work of human rights d |
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Canadian Union of Public Employees
December 11
Canada's flight attendants got something they needed in yesterday's federal budget: better airport and airline security. But their union is dismayed that Paul Martin did little for our economic and s |
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Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
December 11
No Canadian has died from anthrax poisoning. Few have died from terrorist attacks. Yet thousands die from poverty, hunger and pollution. Yesterday's federal "anti-terrorist" budget does little to add |
