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May 19, 2020 
Let’s be comrades
Comrades: An Essay on Political Belonging by Jodi Dean (Verso, 2019). I’ll admit it: after ten years as an organized socialist, I’ve only recently warmed…
Articles
Arts & culture Interview
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May 18, 2020
Keeping Things DIY With Days N Daze
Days N Daze formed as a duo in 2008. Band founders Whitney Flynn and Jesse (Je-C) Sendejas performed their first set of original music (and…
Interview
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May 15, 2020
Tenant organizing and anti-racism in Vancouver’s Chinatown
The COVID crisis has highlighted the urgent need for social housing, and the threat of anti-Asian racism. Spring Magazine spoke with Nat Lowe, a labour…
News
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May 14, 2020
Prison is a death sentence
As COVID-19 wreaks havoc inside prisons across Canada, prison justice activists across the country launched two city-wide solidarity actions in Toronto and Ottawa, denouncing the tragic…
Analysis Arts & culture
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May 14, 2020
CFL bailouts: A trick play
The Canadian Football League is in danger and, therefore, so is Canada. At least, that’s what league commissioner Randy Ambrosie would like to have you…
Analysis
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May 13, 2020
COVID-19 and the right to refuse unsafe work
Throughout the course of the pandemic, the Ontario government has been keen to remove worker control over job sites. We saw it with the override…
Analysis
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May 12, 2020
Now is the moment to expand public services
The events of the past two months have shone a spotlight on the underlying weaknesses of Canada’s crumbling welfare state. Many people in Canada are…
Analysis
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May 12, 2020
Imperialism and COVID-19
We are not in this together. The divisions that run through our society going into the COVID-19 crisis have only been heightened. Racialized workers are…
Interview
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May 11, 2020
Interview: Working in care homes
Spring Magazine recently sat down with two support workers in Vancouver. In part 1 of this interview we discussed the inadequate degree of workplace safety….
Op-ed
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May 10, 2020
Band-Aids and Kisses: A Public Health & Climate Crisis
When I was thirteen and alive, I wanted to travel the world to combat illness and disease. I wanted to make wounds better with lots…
Interview
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May 8, 2020
Interview: Coronavirus and care homes
The coronavirus pandemic continues to rage, and frontline workers everywhere are bearing the brunt of the risk, often with little help. Support workers in care…
Analysis
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May 7, 2020
COVID or capitalism: What’s causing the food crisis?
“The people come with nets to fish for potatoes in the river, and the guards hold them back; they come in rattling cars to get…