My heart celebrated when I read that the Minneapolis city council had committed to fully defunding their police and, more recently, the city of Hamilton…
The global economic recession triggered by the pandemic has been the worst economic downturn since the Great Depression. And it is far from over. Some…
Late May and early June saw the biggest wave of mass rebellion in the United States since the 1960s. Protests erupted in every major city…
Filipino youth and supporters gathered in front of the Philippine Consulate General in Toronto to protest against President Rodrigo Duterte Anti-Terrorism Act, signed into law…
Sometime in March, almost overnight, grocery workers became ‘essential’. As key components in getting Canada’s food supply to the country’s dinner tables grocery store workers…
Canadian provinces have enforced unprecedented economic shutdowns in order to reduce the spread of COVID-19. The pandemic has left many Canadians in financial trouble: an…
Hundreds of tenants across Toronto gathered in Queen’s Park for a rally to protest Bill 184, the Protecting Tenants and Strengthening Community Housing Act. The…
Pressure on the ruling class is mounting to address a number of huge crises: the COVID-19 pandemic, the climate crisis and and the economic crisis,…
The Romance of American Communism by Vivian Gornick (Verso, 2020). Nearly a million Americans were members of the Communist Party. From it’s heady origins in…
What would a world free from systemic racism and colonization look like? This is the question that Erica Violet Lee asked as Idle No More…
Last month, the people of Barrie – a city of about 150,000 people located on the shores of Lake Simcoe, north of Toronto – witnessed…
There are few white-supremacy countries that surpass Canada’s shameful record in political discrimination.
