The rise in food insecurity is the result of skyrocketing food prices, rising rents and stagnant incomes. But these are just symptoms of a larger issue, a system that thrives on inequality and benefits a small number of profiteering elites at the expense of the working class.
Hundreds rallied outside Toronto city hall to protest John Tory’s proposed $48.3 million police budget increase. This was part of a month of action put together by a broad coalition of abolitionist and anti-racist organizations concerned with police violence and the hollowing out of social services, organized under the umbrella of “Another Toronto is Possible.”
We are in the midst of both an environmental crisis and an affordability crisis, which are linked. The solutions on offer, from raising fares to relying on electric cars, don’t solve either problem. But increasing access to public transit is good for all workers, all riders, and the planet. Taking action for free and accessible public transit can win reforms and set us on track for climate justice.
Prime Minister Trudeau and all his federal ministers are meeting in Hamilton on Monday, January 23 for their winter cabinet retreat. Migrant workers will be…
The left’s response to the OPSEU scandal must counter the big business narrative that unions and union leaders are inevitably corrupt. We have to aim to build the confidence and capacity of rank and file members to not only assert themselves in their unions, but to take on the bosses. The best way to prevent union corruption is to build class struggle unionism from below.
Structural poverty and racism breed gun violence in our neighbourhoods, and the budget process forces us to ask what truly keeps us safe. We can no longer afford to try to police our way out of this crisis.
NFL players have gone from people working multiple jobs and asking for clean clothes to one of the most lucrative jobs in the world, and that occurred primarily through solidarity and union struggle. The doctors that were there for Hamlin were a concession workers fought for, that no billionaire NFL team owner would fork over without absolutely having to.
To be alive in 2023 is to live in a time of crisis. Everywhere we turn it seems as if the institutions we have relied…
The business of war is very profitable for a few weapons makers and generals who end their careers as high paid shills. Wayne Eyre, Canada’s…
Torontonians need more money for social services, public transit, and housing, not further increases to the city’s already bloated police budget
In early December, last year, the Indonesian government legislated a new criminal code to replace the old code that the country inherited from its past…
Ontario, students and education workers are sounding the alarm that schools are unsafe. Increased school violence is capturing media attention. We must see this violence in…
