Podcast
Marc Belanger, Derek Blackadder, C. Marie Ainsborough
| RadioLabour's Canada Report: Teachers in Ontario are for students and against cuts to education -- an interview with ETFO president Sam Hammond. |
Podcast
Marc Belanger, C. Marie Ainsborough, Derek Blackadder
| Labour promotes North America's first paid leave for domestic violence. Ontario making university more expensive. Global unions campaign for free, quality education. |
Columnists
Matthew Behrens
| For a self-proclaimed feminist prime minister, Justin Trudeau has utterly failed in his government's efforts to protect the national security of women. |
Blog
Penney Kome
| With the recent Toronto van attack and the Parkland shootings, the perpetrators seemed to be aiming at women. Femicide has become public. |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| There are several commonly known warning signs for intimate partner violence, and Pejcinovski's killer fit at least three of them. |
Columnists
Amy Goodman, Denis Moynihan
| The mass murder in Sutherland Springs, Texas, was a horrific crime. It was also horrifically predictable, and emblematic of the systemic problem we have with guns and violence in the United States. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| The Wynne government wants to offer up to 17 weeks leave, but since it is all unpaid it will not help those who need it most |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| Bill 26, the Domestic and Sexual Violence Act unanimously passed second reading but has been in limbo since October 20, 2016. |
Blog
Doreen Nicoll
| The Wynne government's Bill 148 only allows for two days of paid "personal emergency leave," which can be accessed for domestic and sexual violence. This is not good enough. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| A 2014 study found that a third of respondents had experienced domestic violence. Of those, more than half said they'd experienced it at or near their workplaces. |
News
Meagan Gillmore
| Saskatchewan has become the latest province to guarantee leave to employees suffering domestic violence. Organized labour has been leading the battle. |
Columnists
Matthew Behrens
| Despite the daily barrage of patriarchal terrorism in our own neighbourhoods, the self-styled feminist government of Justin Trudeau acts in a manner inconsistent with the extent of the crisis. |