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April 22, 2025 
Stop the cuts at Saint Mary’s University
I have been teaching at Saint Mary’s University as a part-time instructor for nearly a year and a half now. Despite this part-time status, my…
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April 17, 2025
Will Trump’s tariffs be good for auto workers?
This article was first published by Labor Notes. It is reprinted with permission. During the 2019 General Motors strike, while my fellow workers and I…
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April 14, 2025
Library workers for supervised consumption sites
In December of 2024, the Ford government announced amendments to The Community Care and Recovery Act that would close supervised consumption sites (SCS) within 200…
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April 3, 2025
Human rights lawyer turned Attorney General Gary Anandasangaree must take action against Israel’s genocide
Recently appointed as Canada’s Attorney General and Minister of Justice by Prime Minister Mark Carney on March 14, 2025 (a position he is likely to…
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March 31, 2025
UAW leadership should reverse its pro-Trump statement
The UAW leadership should reverse its declaration of support for Trump on tariffs and protectionism, and should stand on international labor solidarity in organizing for…
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March 27, 2025
Diversity of Tactics: Leafleting for a free Palestine
Every Saturday at Toronto’s Dufferin Mall, I join a group of people in my neighbourhood to hand out leaflets with a call to action “Boycott…
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March 26, 2025
Toronto’s proposed bylaw polices dissent
The freedom to protest is the bedrock of a functioning democracy. Toronto’s new bylaw proposal may parade itself as an act of compassion and protection,…
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March 25, 2025
If Tories support free speech, they’d dump ‘Doberman’ Oberman
Neil Oberman personifies the Conservative party’s hypocrisy on freedom of expression. In service of a genocidal foreign state, Pierre Poilievre’s candidate for the Mount Royal…
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March 20, 2025
Singh embarrassingly trails Carney on questioning F-35 deal
The NDP’s belated call to scrap the F-35 contract is a damning comment on Jagmeet Singh’s leadership. This cautious response to a rapidly shifting political…
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March 13, 2025
After the election, where next for Ontario education?
The Ontario elections are over. The government spent $189 million in taxpayer money to lose two seats and we are back to basically where we…
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February 26, 2025
Flimsy charges against pro-Palestine author show state’s true colours
Last week, author and critic of the Israeli genocide against Palestinians, Yves Engler, was arrested in Montréal on charges of harassment and “indecent communication.” Engler…
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February 20, 2025
Surviving the Nakba: A legacy of displacement
As a Palestinian woman from Gaza, I come from a family that survived the Nakba of 1948, a catastrophic event that forced over 700,000 Palestinians…