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Unions across the country intend to leverage current broad public support for grocery store workers to lobby for permanent wage increases.

Canadian grocery store workers and their unions are concerned about the looming prospect of their temporary wage increase coming to an end.

The Foodora workers' union drive set a precedent for app-based gig workers in Ontario, but the path to its labour board victory offers a lesson in organizing disconnected workforces.

Colleagues and friends pay tribute to the late Mel Watkins, a towering figure.

Most Canadian workers do not have paid sick leave, and those who benefit from such leave are disproportionately in the upper income category.

Marchers urged resistance to government's cuts in public education, health care, and social welfare in Ontario.

Patty Coates, the president of the Ontario Federation of Labour, speaks to rabble ahead of its rally against Conservative cuts.

"Don't cry on the shoulder of the man that stole their land," says one activist. Land defenders gather at minister's office after police extend the exclusion zone around the Unist'ot'en checkpoint.

Low government health-care spending and privatized services are neglecting the needs of an aging population and profoundly impacting an overburdened and precarious workforce.