The art and politics of “United for Status”
“Soon you’ll be able to weave anything you want. Anything you can see and anything your heart can imagine. Your very own world.” – from…
“Soon you’ll be able to weave anything you want. Anything you can see and anything your heart can imagine. Your very own world.” – from…
The WGA is pushing against an ugly production model and fighting to ensure those in the arts can earn a living making the shows and movies we all love to see.
You don’t have to look too deep to find evidence of Nova Scotia’s housing crisis. Every day there are stories from tenants, housing organizations, shelters,…
Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front Lines of the Class War by Jon Melrod (PM Press, 2022). Jon Melrod’s Fighting Times: Organizing on the Front…
Long before garnering international attention as a “pandemic-era folk hero,” carpenter Khaleel Seivwright built a tiny insulated shelter in a Toronto park with a painted…
Navigating the private rental market is hellish right now. Demand is outstripping supply, with costs continuing to skyrocket. So there’s really no debate whether there is a need to reinstate rent control during and between tenancies. All levels of government need robust investments for public and non-market housing options as well. While the current situation appears to be a hopeless one, tenant organizing as in the case of LHPTA can leverage renters’ collective power to demand important and necessary changes to their homes.
‘Let’s Rent a Train!’ is newly released historical film documenting the rise and fall of a revolutionary political group, the League for Socialist Action (LSA),…
A little over one week ago, on 15 April, a conflict between Sudanese military chief Abdel Fattah al-Burhan and his deputy Mohammed Hamdan “Hemedti” Dagalo,…
Last month was the 112th anniversary of the first ever International Working Women’s Day, but it feels as though the “working” part of the global…
Wages that don’t keep up with inflation. Creeping privatization that threatens job security. And managers who force workers back to the office, despite their having…
Like a stopped watch that tells the correct time twice a day, Pierre Poilievre is right about Canada’s ‘public’ broadcaster. CBC is a government-funded media outlet…
On a hot August afternoon in 2015, an unknown number of Vancouver police officers killed Myles Gray. The violence they inflicted on him was so…