Toronto’s shelter system is intentionally broken, compartmentalized, and individualized. It doesn’t work for those in need and was never meant to.
Layered policing takes many forms. Hallmarks of these programs are partnerships with community, groups, non-profits, and charities. These can soften or downplay the impacts of policing while providing police with some public relations cover.
Trade unionists and revolutionary activists in Sudan and Britain exchanged messages of solidarity, pledging support for each others’ struggles at a conference organized by a…
While Railroad Workers United (RWU) finds it despicable—but not surprising—that both political parties opted to side with Big Business over working people yesterday and vote…
Workers and families at St. Lawrence Co-operative Day Care (SLCDC), a non-profit childcare centre in downtown Toronto, are facing a lockout imposed by the SLCDC Board of Directors.
During the first week of November, the Vancouver Police Department (VPD) once again bumbled clumsily into the world of politics with a social safety net…
Over 700 service workers at the University of Toronto–members of CUPE 3261 – will be in a legal strike position on Monday, November 21, the…
The members of the MacPap battalion did not fight for king or country, they fought fascism in Spain and demonstrated international working class solidarity.
Ford’s stunning reversal on Bill 28 shows when the working class unites and fights back it has the power to take on the Conservatives and win.
On Friday, 55,000 Ontario education workers with CUPE walked off the job in an “illegal” strike. They were joined by OPSEU education workers, who also…
Our rights in the workplace, our rights to organize and have access to basic protections and benefits as workers, are the product of working people taking action – oftentimes in the face of repressive laws and physical violence from the state and employers.
In February 1981, the then president of the Canadian Union of Postal Workers (CUPW), Jean-Claude Parrot, penned an article in the CUPW publication entitled “The…
