Articles
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The Price of Sugar
Chronic Kidney Disease Stalks Sugarcane Workers
Chronic Kidney Disease has taken the lives of more than 20,000 sugarcane workers in Central America. A call from former sugarcane worker Roberto Valdivia for international solidarity with the workers and the undeniable need for safer working conditions. Keep reading…
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Testing Trudeau’s Climate Rhetoric
A national climate strategy holds incredible potential for the labour movement. That’s why the Canadian Labour Congress teamed up with a number of environmental organizations and First Nations to deliver a proposal called “One Million Climate Jobs” to the prime minister. Keep reading…
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Quidi Vidi & Virtual Organizing
In which I speak of muck, walking tours, the changing structure of work, and working-class insurgency — all from Port Union, Newfoundland, the only union-built town in the country. Keep reading…
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Powering Up Our Post Office
When I heard that the grassroots organization Friends of Public Services was going to host an event in my hometown all about delivering community power by tapping into Canada Post’s full potential, I was intrigued. This is what I learned. Keep reading…
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Healthy Planet, Healthy Workers
A national climate strategy holds incredible potential for the labour movement. That’s why the Canadian Labour Congress teamed up with a number of environmental organizations and First Nations to deliver a proposal called “One Million Climate Jobs” to the prime minister. Keep reading…
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Open Letter to PRIDE Toronto
Dear Pride Toronto: I am writing to you as a long-time resident of the Church and Wellesley neighbourhood, a long-time Queer and Trans activist, and one of Canada’s few openly gay union leaders. Please honour the commitments you made to Black Lives Matter. Keep reading…
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Healing Power
They spend every working day taking care of us during our medical emergencies, but what happens to EMS workers when they need help? Teresa Coulter, an Emergency Medical Technician (EMT), and an artist, describes what happened to her when she hit her crisis point. Keep reading…
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Goodwin’s Way
Labour organizer and martyr Ginger Goodwin was a persuasive speaker who practised by talking to tree stumps in the woods. In Neil Vokey’s film Goodwin’s Way, Goodwin’s legacy lives on in the streets of Cumberland, BC. Keep reading…
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Crossing A Digital Picket Line
The Chronicle Herald Strike
While they remain on the picket line outside the Chronicle Herald building, experienced Herald journalists and editors like Frank Campbell are still practising their craft, but they’re contributing their work to the online news site, Local Xpress, instead. Keep reading…
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Tweets and Twobbies
Some of you, way too many of you, are still clustering your tweets. You know who you are. Keep reading…
