Spring 2020
Features
-
16
LEVEL UP
Unprecedented attention is now focused on unionizing the video game industry, and women are integral to the movement.
-
24
BREAKING BREAD
“Folks think that labour is all about strikes,” activist Gogi Bhandal says. They need to know how much labour does in the community.
Departments
-
6
Upfront
Foodora Workers’ Historic Win • Affordable Housing for All • Paid Domestic Violence Leave • Jesse Wente • Our Times Online • Kickstarter Workers Unionize • COVID-19
-
11
OUR TIMES TALLY
Rank of the military as the profession that women believe is the most difficult for them to advance in: 1. Rank of politics: 2
-
13 CLIMATE JUSTICE
HOW NOT TO BUILD PUBLIC TRANSIT
Shrouded in corporate secrecy, Ottawa’s Light Rail Transit expansions have quickly become the city’s most expensive mistake.
-
14 WEBWORK
MAX YOUR SECURITY AND BUILD A WEBSITE
A website will anchor your campaign, and save it if your social media presence is compromised.
-
29 UNION EXCHANGE
A PEOPLE’S COALITION FOR JUTSICE AND SURVIVAL
“Why is it only the environmentally destructive practices that we’re allowed to participate in?” asks Sherry Pictou, former chief of the L’sitkuk Nation.
-
33 EXCERPT
A KNAPSACK FULL OF DREAMS: MEMOIRS OF A STREET NURSE
Many of the men and women living in Toronto’s Tent City were labourers; drywallers, roofers, and steelworkers.
-
36 HAVE YOUR SAY
ACTIVISTS WITH TO-DO LISTS
How to make a difference without burning out is not something we often discuss in activist spaces. But we need to.
-
38 HAVE YOUR SAY
GIG WORKERS AND TAX CHEATS
Darlene and Connie belong to a growing number of senior women forced to take on gig work to survive.
-
40 POETRY
PLANTING LIGHT
-
42 WORKING FOR A LIVING
HOW MAY I HELP YOU?
I lamented when a woman said, “Look at that tall thing; she can’t even butter a goddamn bagel.”
-
45 REVIEW
1919: A GRAPHIC HISTORY OF THE WINNIPEG GENERAL STRIKE
From the moment you pick up this book you get the impression you’re holding something special.
-
47 COMMENTARY
BORDERLANDS
What price passports and borders in the future?
