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Workers undeterred by growing tensions in fight for Ontario’s social service sector
Thousands of community and social service workers in Ontario, unionized under OPSEU, are currently on strike or locked out of their workplaces as they fight...
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Book Review: “Thin Blue Rage: The Police Countermovement”
Thin Blue Rage: The Police Countermovement, by Andrew Crosby and Jeffrey Monaghan (Fernwood Publishing, May 2026). The years following the George Floyd rebellions have witnessed...
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Colonialism, capitalism and Canada
Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism and the Colonial Imagination by Tyler Shipley (2020, Fernwood Press). Tyler A. Shipley’s book Canada in the World: Settler Capitalism...
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Remembering the International Socialists
From the Free Speech Movement to the Factory Floor: A Collective History of the International Socialists, edited by Andrew Stone Higgins (Haymarket Books, March 2026) ...
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Striking OPSEU social service workers are fighting for their communities
Workers at Sistering in west Toronto (OPSEU 540) took strike action and walked off the job on Monday. Sistering is a 24/7 community drop-in service...
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Ontario’s war on special education
Across Ontario, parents are watching specialized classrooms disappear. As supports shrink and staffing levels decrease, children with disabilities are being left behind. Students with disabilities...
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Tahanan tenants on rent strike against 8% rent increase
On Friday, May 22nd, a crowd of approximately 40 residents and community supporters gathered for a press conference and rally outside of Tahanan Homes, a...
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Ontario classrooms are being stripped down to the bare minimum
For a long time, class sizes (the ratio of students to teachers) have been a key indicator of the state of public education. However, in...
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Worth fighting for: Community Living London workers ready to strike
Community Living London workers are preparing to walk off the job on Monday, joining thousands of workers across Ontario in a growing labour dispute driven...
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Stopping Ford’s hospital privatization train wreck
On Thursday, May 28, thousands of Ontarians will be taking to the rails and converging on Union Station in downtown Toronto. In addition to their...
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A Bug’s Life: Almost thirty years later, Pixar’s forgotten film is more relevant than ever
As Trump took to Twitter to threaten a potential nuclear strike on Iran in April, many users on the platform and other social media cried...
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From bad to worse: Labour’s latest defeat signals an uncertain future for British politics
Polls closed across the UK on Thursday 7 May 2026 for local elections across the UK. In England, around 5,000 local councillors across 136 councils...
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The Canada Strong Fund is a farce
On April 28, 2026, Prime Minister Mark Carney presented the Federal government’s spring economic update. The announcement that garnered the most attention was the “Canada...
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Mama Earth workers fight back against union busting
On Saturday, May 9th, laid-off workers at Toronto-based produce delivery service Mama Earth led a rally to protest union busting in their former workplace. The...
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