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August 17, 2024 
Mass uprising in Bangladesh overthrew a dictatorship. Now what?
A revolution led by the masses has succeeded in overthrowing the dictatorship. What comes next?
Sarah Nafisa Shahid
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July 24, 2024
Students rise and revolt in Bangladesh
The student-led movement is building popular support across class lines and giving expression to frustration with the current regime.
Arts & culture
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May 17, 2023
Visibilizing labour and visualizing new futures: Interview with 2023 Mayworks Festival poster designer Moe Pramanick
Moe Pramanick is a Sindhi-Bengali visual artist based in Toronto. Spring Magazine caught up with Moe to discuss the role of art in movements, and…
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September 29, 2022
There is an opening to win paid sick days in Ontario
I’ll cut straight to the chase – Ontario still does not have permanent paid sick days. Zero. After a devastating pandemic with thousands of deaths,…
Interview
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May 21, 2022
Scarborough queer artists challenging oppression through art
সাবধান / SHABDHAN (“careful”) is a collaborative artwork by queer Bangladeshi artists L. Akhter and namrata. Part of the Mayworks Festival, the installation and accompanying…
Interview
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May 6, 2022
How housewives organized against inflation
RADICAL HOUSEWIVES is a play about the struggles of Toronto housewives in the 1930s and 1940s for lower food prices, and about the weight of…
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January 26, 2022
Ontario workers need paid sick days, CERB, and status for all
Entering year three of the pandemic, case counts have exploded, admissions to hospitals are rising, ICUs are filling up and our public services are at…
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May 6, 2021
Mayworks Festival: Essential arts addressing issues of essential work
Mayworks Festival of Working People & the Arts is a community-based festival offering free, virtual programming throughout the month of May. Spring Magazine caught up…
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April 12, 2021
Black faculty exposes systemic racism in Canadian higher education
In a press conference on Thursday, April 8, Professor Aimé Avolonto, Associate Professor in the Department of French Studies at Glendon College, York University, put…
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March 17, 2021
Funny Boy, representation and dangers of bourgeois apathy
Deepa Mehta’s latest film, Funny Boy, is a queer coming-of-age story set in the backdrop of the Sri Lankan Civil War. Based on Shyam Selvadurai’s…
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March 11, 2021
Gig workers resist Uber’s push for anti-labour reforms
On the morning of March 10, Uber Canada announced a proposal to Canadian provincial governments to provide worker benefits to couriers while maintaining the “flexibility”…
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December 16, 2020
Solidarity with India’s farmers
As I weathered the downpour on a Saturday afternoon to 365 Bloor St, the building that hosted the Indian consulate in Toronto, numbers of protesters…