What is going on with inflation?
Anyone who has gone to the grocery store this year has noticed the prices of basic food items are going up. For many people in…
Anyone who has gone to the grocery store this year has noticed the prices of basic food items are going up. For many people in…
On December 19, people across Sudan took to the streets to mark the anniversary of the revolution that toppled longtime President Omar al-Bashir in 2019…
As we approach the end of 2021, and look forward to some holiday reading, Spring socialists share their favourite reads of the past year. Beautiful…
The housing crisis is clear: people are living in their relatives’ garages, or in the subway, or outdoors in parks, or on sidewalks. The solution needs to address how ruthless landlords and real estate companies, backed by unfair government housing policies, pushed them there and denied their humanity. This requires taking on the myths that fuel the housing crisis.
Gabriel Boric, the left wing candidate in Chile’s runoff presidential election, has decisively won the vote and will become the youngest Chilean president and the…
Casual workers at the University of Toronto, represented by United Steelworkers local 1998, recently won two paid sick days. Spring Magazine spoke with Colleen Burke…
The rapid spread of the Omicron variant was predictable and preventable, and the fact that it is happening rests squarely on the business lobby and our governments and media, which have put profits before people.
Over the last 24 months of the pandemic, I have watched my family and friends, Black and racialized people, forced onto the front lines of…
The Mi’kmaw Native Friendship Centre (MNFC) homeless shelter in Halifax will be closing its doors at the end of December according to Pam Glode Desrochers,…
4,000 people have died in Ontario’s long-term care homes during the pandemic so far, often in conditions so deplorable that the Canadian Armed Forces suggested…
From border control to lockdowns, and from staying home sick to getting vaccinated and tested for COVID—Ford’s entire pandemic plan ignores inequities that preceded the pandemic. The result has been to fuel COVID inequities—scapegoating migrants, policing essential workers, sending sick workers to work, and keeping vaccines and tests out of the hands of those who need them most.
Policing is a powerful tool of capitalism. For more than a century, the ruling class has used it as a way to protect property and…