Summer 2020
Features
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Dear White Sisters and Brothers
You are receiving this letter because I believe you care, and you want to act.
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TRANSFORMING LONG-TERM CARE IN CANADA
Reclaiming the original vision of medicare can help us move beyond a broken long-term-care model.
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A SUSTAINABLE PENSION PLAN FOR ONTARIO’S UNIVERSITY WORKERS
Over a decade of work by countless dedicated activists led to the groundbreaking University Pension Plan Ontario.
Departments
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7 UPFRONT
THE TIME HAS COME
Two things have hit Canadian society with a vengeance, and both have laid bare the anti-Black racism that exists here. There is much work to do.
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OUR TIMES TALLY
Percentage decline in employment for high-wage workers in Canada from February to April 2020: 1 Percentage decline for workers making less than $16 per hour in Canada during the same period: 51
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13 CLIMATE/JUSTICE
CARE WORK IS CLIMATE WORK
Care work is exactly the type of employment we need to invest in as a cornerstone of a Green New Deal.
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14 WEBWORK
ZOOMING IN POST-PANDEMIC TIMES
What about making meetings via videoconference the standard rather than just a COVID-related exception?
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24 PASSING THE TORCH
A TRAILBLAZING LIFE THAT LIT UP THE ROOM: MEGAN WHITFIELD (1968-2020)
“Megan Whitfield was a leader who touched and changed so many lives. She commanded a presence.”
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41 UNION EXCHANGE
MIGRANT WORKERS TRAINING IN AFRICA
A new project aims to equip Kenyan workers coming to Canada with the information they need to stay safe.
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43 POETRY
GUILTY UNTIL PROVEN INNOCENT
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44 BEST OF THE UNION PRESS
BC TEACHERS SPEAK OUT ABOUT COVID-19 AND THE ANTI-ASIAN PANDEMIC
“With any teaching around equity and inclusion, we need to re-examine our own experience first,” says teacher Joe Tong.
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46 REVIEW
BLACK WOMAN IN GREEN
For Gloria Brown, “visiting the forest was like going into a dark room and having the light come on slowly to reveal a new world.”
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48 COMMENTARY
THROUGH TEAR GAS AND TIME
Will we learn how to move past policing as the brutal and blunt tool it now is?
