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…
Last week Ontario’s NDP came out in support of a $20 minimum wage. This is an important opportunity for the entire labour movement and the left to intervene in next year’s election. But with the business backlash already beginning we can’t wait until the June election, we need to organize now.
While NFTs are new, they represent something that is not. This commodification of our digital life is more than just a fad: it is a speculative frenzy that has its roots in capitalism’s contradictory economic recovery.
There is no excuse for a big bustling city like Toronto to not have a thriving public transit system. The TTC should be an affordable…
There is a long tradition of socialists hosting reading groups. There is almost just as old a joke about socialists thinking they can change the…
Paid sick days have been a central issue during the pandemic, with labour advocates and health experts calling for at least 10 paid sick days…
In 2019, Sudan’s mass democratic uprising toppled the country’s dictator, Omar al-Bashir, and secured a power-sharing agreement between civilian leaders and the military with the…
“We cannot simply build isolated utopias while the rest of the world burns, nor can we wait for the slow process of reformist reform to…
“Well, what’s wrong?”/ “So, the thing is…”/ “How about you use your body to pay?”/ “What?”/ SLAP! It’s probably one of the more innocuous (although…
Hundreds gathered outside the former Halifax Memorial Library building on Spring Garden Road in Kjipuktuk/Halifax on Thursday, October 14 to commemorate and celebrate the life…
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