Fall 2017
Features
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ON PENSION PLANS AND PJS
Fewer than 40 per cent of working people in Canada have workplace pension plans. A lot more needs to be done for everyone to have a secure retirement.
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17 COVER STORY
A FOOD POLICY FOR CANADA
Food is an issue that leaves no one untouched. Who eats, and what they consume, is a highly political subject: why a national food strategy, not stopgap measures, is essential.
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24 PHOTOSTORY
THE POWER IN A PHOTOGRAPH
Taking up a position with a camera means taking up a political position. It means choosing which side you’re on.
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33
THE LOCKOUT OFFENSIVE BY EMPLOYERS
More and more, employers are using lockouts to enforce concessions and weaken unions.
Departments
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NOTES
Yolanda McClean Wins Award * Chinatown and Strathcona * BC Labour History Bronzed
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9 Webwork
MILLENNIALS, PENSIONERS & WORKAMPERS
Amazon’s “Workampers” program takes the exploitation a step further by recruiting American seniors who are destitute in retirement.
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11 CLIMATE/JUSTICE
THREE ISLANDS AND A SACRED OBLIGATION
One only has to look at Ottawa’s Chaudiére Falls to observe how easily Canada disregards its sacred obligations.
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15 Working for a Living
Travelling the Gig Economy
After years of visualizing travel destinations and planning potential routes, the stars had aligned to live out the “digital nomad’s” life.
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43 HAVE YOU SAY
BURKAS AND BILL 62
The test of human rights is actually when we are forced to confront the humanity of people who are most unlike us.
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44
POETRY
A historical retelling that transcends time, this storybook is a must-read, for children and adults alike.
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46 REVIEW
THE STORY OF ALBERT JACKSON
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48 COMMENTARY
FOOD, LAND AND TREATY
Indigenous women’s knowledge and experience must be central to any decolonization process with settler-society.
