Analysis
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November 2, 2020 
Long-term care in Ontario has been a free market disaster
Why should we have “for-profit healthcare” in the first place? Why not nationalize LTCs altogether?
coronavirus
Interview
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August 11, 2020
‘We need smaller class sizes’
The Ontario government seems intent on pushing ahead with its plan for a full-blown return to school in September. The government’s plan does not provide…
Feature
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August 6, 2020
Normalizing COVID mortality
There comes a time in every pandemic when those in power feel sufficiently protected from the infection and sufficiently burdened by public health that they…
News
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July 30, 2020
Parents, students & education workers demand a #SafeSeptember
On July 29, a coalition of parents, education workers and students organized a province-wide day of action in Ontario calling for proper government funding to…
Analysis
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June 26, 2020
Defending CERB and Fighting the Right
On June 10, the federal government tabled a new piece of legislation that includes measures tightening the requirements for receiving the new Canada Emergency Response…
Feature
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June 24, 2020
Restore pandemic pay and make it permanent
As an essential grocery store worker, it was heart-wrenching when my company ended pandemic pay while the risk and the pandemic is still going on….
Interview
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June 18, 2020
‘Nurses fought COVID, now we’ll fight the police’
Spring Magazine spoke with Jillian Primiano, a registered nurse from Brooklyn, about her experience as a front-line worker during COVID-19, the link between racism and…
News
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June 12, 2020
Pandemic response needs migrant justice
“We know our boss will use this virus to enforce rules he wanted already. He’s using the pandemic as an excuse to get control over…
News
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June 5, 2020
Prisoners hunger strike for better conditions at OCDC
On June 4, 2020 at 3:30 pm a 31-hour hunger strike ended at the Ottawa-Carleton Detention Centre (OCDC). 14 prisoners successfully negotiated an agreement with…
Feature
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June 4, 2020
COVID-19 and the pandemic of anti-Black racism
Sharon Roberts, Arlene Reid and Leonard Rodriques are all Ontario personal support workers who died as front-line workers during COVID-19. Regis Korchinski-Paquet was killed at…
Op-ed
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June 3, 2020
The virology of capitalism
In response to the COVID-19 pandemic, socialists insist that “Capitalism is the Virus!” Such a phrase is not a casual flip of the script or…
Analysis
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June 2, 2020
Ford rewriting labour laws to line the bosses’ pockets
The outbreak of COVID-19 has seen unemployment rates skyrocket and businesses close across Ontario. In response, the government has gone out of its way to…