Feb 10
 Don’t say that Canada or Saskatchewan failed Indigenous people -- Canada just failed. It wasn’t a mob of racists that released a killer onto the streets -- it was 12 regular Canadians. |
Feb 9
 The Urban Worker Project is an extension of the work on precarious pay by former MP Andrew Cash |
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Feb 9
Bill 148 and precarious workers - will it make a difference?
The Urban Worker Project is an extension of the work on precarious pay by former MP Andrew Cash |
Feb 8
 As the Seoul Winter Olympics opens, a peace conference calls for suspension of military exercises after the Games, and lifting of sanctions and talks with North Korea. |
Feb 7
 Who benefits from government policies? Usually just the rich and powerful. |
Feb 6
 A new book by pollster Michael Adams explores data to find out if Canada could succumb to xenophobic populism on a mass scale. |
Feb 5
 In 1968, a U.S president was forced from office, a west African country was enflamed in civil war, and a new prime minister engendered high expectations Canada. |
Feb 2
 The magnitude of this massive avoidance (if not evasion) of taxes in Canada is not yet known by most Canadians. It comes to at least $10 billion per year lost in tax revenue. |
Feb 1
 A look at the egalitarian and ecofeminist Rojava revolution in the Kurdish north of Syria. |
Jan 31
 There were assassinations, massacres, protests and a near-revolution in France -- 1968 was a year of drama and crisis. We still live with the consequences. |
Jan 30
 The president of the Toronto & York Region Labour Council wants union leaders to work for a solution to avoid damage to the movement |
Jan 29
 #RememberJan29 was created as a forum to support people in building a web of common experience, connecting the public to the moment of the attack and to each other. |
Jan 26
 If the national income were more equitably allocated –- as it is in truly progressive countries –- much of the prevailing social distress in Canada could be alleviated. |
Jan 25
 Pierre Trudeau had been in power for 10 years. Nigeria moved toward a (brief) return to democracy. And René Lévesque prepared the ground for 1980’s referendum on Quebec independence. |
Jan 24
 The Quebec town’s citizens were not protected from unsafe transportation practices which remain in place today. They deserve justice. |
Jan 23
 If civil rights movements wait for the politicians, nothing will change. |
Jan 22
 A perfect storm created the conditions for the chronic shortage of shelter beds in Toronto, which can no longer be ignored. |
Jan 19
 Old age need not be dreaded if it is the culmination of a well-spent life |
Jan 18
 Brian Mulroney is remembered for his unctuous manner and the whiff of corruption that surrounded him. In fact, his was a consequential government. Part 2 of 2. |
Jan 17
 Brian Mulroney is remembered for his unctuous manner and the whiff of corruption that surrounded him. In fact, his was a consequential government. Part 1 of 2. |
Jan 16
 A statement to the progressive community in Canada that we weren’t able to read out at a Vancouver rally after being attacked |
Jan 15
 A coalition has formed to organize poor people in the United States into what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. called 'a new and unsettling force' to fight poverty. |
Jan 12
 When more help is on the way, time to get engaged! |
Jan 11
 George Lessard and Victoria Fenner talk about how residents of northern Canada survive on minimum wage (spoiler: Tim Hortons pays more than minimum wage in Yellowknife). |
Jan 10
 You can probably count on the nattering nabobs of neoliberal negativity at the UCP to come up with a new reason that is clearly the NDP's fault to explain why the sky is falling. |
Jan 9
 Kathleen Wynne has been defending workers' rights during the recent backlash against minimum wage increases. By contrast, Andrea Horwath's NDP have only meekly supported the issue. |
Jan 8
 Ten years ago we had a federal election, the great recession and a prorogation crisis. As well, Justin Trudeau won his first election. |
Jan 5
 Filmmaker and activist Bonnie Sherr Klein addressing fellow Order of Canada recipients from British Columbia about the need for a National Disability Act in Canada. |
Jan 4
 Creating an anthology of famous and not-so-famous poems on justice for humanity is thought provoking and inspiring |
Jan 3
 A look at the system that employs thousands of adults with intellectual disabilities and what comes next for them. |