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Where is Social Media Going?
Facebook is giving serious consideration to brazenly asking us to pay to ensure that it doesn’t sell our data to third parties. Like, compensation for its loss of the “right” to sell our shopping, eating, pooping and political preferences to someone or something like, oh, say Cambridge Analytica. Keep reading…
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Success From Grassroots Organizing
This encouraging book about grassroots organizing in a working-class city in the San Francisco Bay Area stands out as an account, relevant to all of us, of efforts to turn the tide. Keep reading…
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The Wisdom Of Working People
The wisdom of working people will soon be given more sway at Vancouver’s Simon Fraser University when the school launches a Bachelor of Arts in Labour Studies this coming September. Keep reading…
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Rally For Decent Work
A heat wave didn’t stop over 1,500 labour and community activists from joining the Rally for Decent Work, in downtown Toronto. The Fight for $15 and Fairness continues. Keep reading…
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Commemorating Ginger Goodwin 100 Years On
Labour martyr Ginger Goodwin has never been forgotten, and on the upcoming 100th anniversary of his death, Cumberland, BC will be honouring his memory in a big way on Miners Memorial Weekend. Keep reading…
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Go Vote, For Ontario’s Sake!
We can debate among ourselves about how to hold any NDP government to account. We can make plans to keep up the public pressure on government to do what’s right for the many. But that’s on June 8th. From now to June 7th, we need to do whatever it takes to make sure that the NDP wins. Because if they do not form government, Doug Ford will. Keep reading…
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Fighting For $15 And Fairness
Through the Eyes of Women Activists
Advocacy worker Nadira Begum is one of the activists behind the unstoppable Fight for $15 and Fairness movement. The campaign is resonating with workers all across the country who know the impossible struggle of life on minimum wage. Keep reading…
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We Strike!
Ni Una Menos and the Women’s Strike in Argentina
Women have had enough. A work stoppage, a walkout, a strike in domestic work; all these proved to be effective tools for challenging patriarchy and economic inequality in Argentina. What can we learn? Keep reading…
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Trudeau Trips Through India
There is a long and complicated history to India that no amount of yoga poses can teach you. Meanwhile, so you know, Trudeau and Modi have this in common: they both believe in privatizing public assets built up over decades of public investment. Keep reading…
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Parenting | Work | Activism
“You Can’t Have it All” and Other Truths I Like to Tell Myself
As a mother of four children ranging from three to 15 years of age, as a career-driven woman who loves her work, and as a community activist, I can’t have it all. I like to remind myself of this when I drive to work in my house slippers. Keep reading…
