Jul 23
![]() The astronomical cost of J-school and the endless class- and race-privileged opportunities that follow serve as a near-impenetrable barrier to keep marginalized young people out of the media industry. |
Jul 22
![]() The pandemic has exposed and intensified severe hardships, but it is also showing us a path towards healthier ways to produce food. |
Jul 20
![]() Premier Kenney says he's making "a very strong recommendation" that Albertans wear masks, but there's no way he's going to order them to do it. |
Jul 16
![]() The government will try to tough it out, and hope a couple of apologies do the trick, even as more revelations about the deep involvement of the prime minister and his family with WE emerge. |
Jul 15
![]() The persistence of the "big society" concept helps explain Justin Trudeau's preposterous claim the WE Charity was the only organization in Canada capable of running a nationwide program. |
Jul 14
![]() Organic vegetable farmer Brent Preston talks about the work of a new national coalition called Farmers for Climate Solutions. |
Jul 9
![]() Bill 32 has nothing to do with restoring balance in Alberta's workplaces. It's a wholesale effort to hamstring unions. |
Jul 8
![]() Reforms to Canada's employment insurance system are necessary, say workers' advocates. |
Jul 7
![]() Canada is decades behind in collecting race-based data in the public sector. Advocates have long fought for easier access to disaggregated data from the criminal justice system. |
Jul 3
![]() Police officers carry the name, but don't monopolize the practice. Policing is structurally integral to all of our institutions, and is carried out both "benevolently" and violently. |
Jun 30
![]() As calls to defund the police mount, police unions are already starting to put up a fight. |
Jun 25
![]() Why defunding the police is a crucial and necessary step to dismantling the carceral system. |
Jun 24
![]() AUPE president Guy Smith vowed to fight the UCP's Bill 1 all the way to the Supreme Court if necessary, and to "defend any and all AUPE members or staff who are caught in the bill's cross-hairs." |
Jun 22
![]() Manufactured mortality among Black and Indigenous people is a fundamental mechanism by which the world operates. Addressing this inequity requires action on a global scale. |
Jun 15
![]() As we reflect on George Floyd, it would be a mistake to think that the murder revealed something new to the Black community about the injustice that led to his death. |
Jun 12
![]() Is the federal government's delay in delivering its response to the MMIWG report due to plans to infuse it into its pandemic recovery strategy? Recent government actions leave room for doubt. |
Jun 10
![]() New tools and policies will not resolve the problem that emerges from arming a small group of mostly white men in an unequal, racist society, and giving them the power to defend the status quo. |
Jun 9
![]() Cities across Canada are moving to install more CCTV cameras for policing, but communities in Toronto are fighting back. |
Jun 3
![]() Tools for allies of the ongoing protests against police brutality. |
Jun 1
![]() This tragedy is yet another reminder of how police continue to fail our community, and that we can't trust an institution that inherently views Black people as a threat. |
May 28
![]() Unions across the country intend to leverage current broad public support for grocery store workers to lobby for permanent wage increases. |
May 28
![]() Canadian grocery store workers and their unions are concerned about the looming prospect of their temporary wage increase coming to an end. |
May 26
![]() Seems like a great victory, until you remember that Canada is a federal country, and, except for a few federally regulated sectors, most Canadian workers are governed by provincial labour laws. |
May 22
![]() The crisis has created a "shadow pandemic" -- violence against women and children. Increased isolation, and the stress it has created, has resulted in more severe violence than ever before. |
May 21
![]() In his new book, James Wilt makes a convincing case for why public transit options better serve the most marginalized members of our society at a lower cost. |
May 20
![]() At this precarious and uncertain stage in the pandemic, it is workers in often insecure and low-paid jobs whom employers and governments want back on the job. |
May 19
![]() 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. |
May 15
![]() University of Calgary Professor Jack Mintz, appointed in March to lead Jason Kenney's "emergency economic panel," has joined other right-wing commentators in calling for public-sector rollbacks. |
May 13
![]() One of the many unprecedented aspects of our current crisis is the way the federal party in power has been ready to quickly accept constructive suggestions from opposition parties. |
May 12
![]() We cannot afford to return to a business-as-usual economic model that kills many, impoverishes millions and fuels global warming. |