Summer 2019
Features
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NEVER BACK DOWN
“We are living an historic feminism,” says Josephine Kenchenten of the relentless fight by rural and suburban mail carriers for pay equity.
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STAND UP, SPEAK OUT!
Comedian, union activist and award-winning digital media strategist Shelina Merani breaks down stereotypes and builds bridges with her singular brand of stand-up.
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ELDER UNION WOMEN SHARE THEIR WISDOM
“How a national pharmacare plan is developed has to consider that one pocket does not fit all people,” says Janice Gairey
Departments
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notes
OPSEU’s Coalition of Racialized Workers • Singing Our Stories
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11 climate/justice
Power to the People
Climate justice is a way to address the worst inequalities and put power back into the hands of working people.
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Our Times Tally
Factor by which homicides against Indigenous women in Canada outpace the national female average: 7 to 1
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14 WebWork
ALGORITHMS AND THE ART OF ORGANIZING
When to bargain, to organize or to do just about anything unionish? There’s an app for that.
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16 poetry
Dream
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17 poetry
EXTINCTION
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37 have Your Say
Why was I a Bystander?
I am a strong woman, and what I had seen of Brother X’s actions made me feel uncomfortable. Why hadn’t I spoken up?
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38 Union Exchange
Green is Not White
How to get more people involved in environmental justice work? Change the face of it, says activist Sarah Jama. A new workshop shows us how.
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41 Union Exchange
THE HALIFAX WORKERS’ ACTION CENTRE
Educate, agitate, organize. Nova Scotian activists found a new centre, with a little help from their friends.
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43 Review
ALL OUR RELATIONS: FINDING THE PATH FORWARD
Education in Canada is the problem, writes Tanya Talaga, and the solution.
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46 Review
TRUTH AND RECONCILIATION IN CANADIAN SCHOOLS
Pamela Toulouse shows us that changing how and what we teach our students allows us to be truly accountable to them.
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48 Commentary
NOT YOUR GRANDMOTHER’S WORK
The model of “Nightingale nurses” was designed to change the public perception of nursing as sexually compromising work.
