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“We don’t have to watch things get worse, or wait for politicians to save us. Yes, we need champions in labour, and we must push…
“We don’t have to watch things get worse, or wait for politicians to save us. Yes, we need champions in labour, and we must push…
Ontario’s recent changes to OSAP are a major setback for students across Ontario. Under the new rules, only 25 percent of funding will come as…
On February 13, the United Educators of San Francisco (UESF) bargaining team announced major victories on key contract demands. The strike by 6,000 public schoolteachers…
Ontario’s post-secondary education has been in a prolonged crisis due to chronic underfunding from the government and mismanagement by college and university administrators It is…
In advance of a January 30 meeting in Ottawa between Canada’s federal, provincial, and territorial ministers responsible for early learning and child care, Child Care…
Support workers with OPSEU Local 249 are in their twelfth week of a strike. They are fighting for better wages and have not seen a raise since 2020.
Two shutdowns against ICE organized by Minnesota labour unions and student groups shook the United States in January. Spring sat down with two organizers involved in the strikes, Aminah Sheikh and Dan Troccoli, to talk about ICE, the political climate in Minnesota, and the potential for a general strike.
At Davos, during the ongoing elite annual gala known as the World Economic Forum (WEF), Canada’s Prime Minister Mark Carney delivered a speech, receiving much…
There is a convergence manifesting in Minnesota. Hundreds of thousands of people are revolting against the federal government and the murders of Renee Good on…
The Ford government announced on January 28 that it was moving to put two more Ontario school boards under its direct control. The Peel District…
Zohran Mamdani’s lightning-in-a-bottle campaign took just nine short months to rally New York City’s largest voter turnout in over half a century—collectively defeating Democratic powerhouse…
London’s apartment vacancy rate has hit a 15-year high. According to Canada Mortgage and Housing Corporation’s (CMHC) report from December 2025, London’s vacancy rate now…

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