Winter 2019-2020
Features
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SAVE THIS HOUSE
Is political will and timing on the side of a Green New Deal for Canada? There is a strong demand for change, but people often don’t know where to start, says Patricia Chong.
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PRECARIOUS WORK & THE POLITICS OF TIME
Workers in precarious jobs frequently face impossible choices: continue being exploited or speak up and risk job loss.
Departments
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Upfront
Overcoming Fear: A Workers’ Toolkit • Sawmill Explosions Review • Labour Films Awarded • LGBTQ2S+ Workers & Inclusion • BC Implements Indigenous Rights Bill • Serving Migrant Workers
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13 CLIMATE/JUSTICE
2020: THE YEAR FOR (FREE) TRANSIT
The complete electrification of all buses in the next 10 to 20 years would quickly shrink the second-largest source of emissions in Canada.
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Tally
Chance that a child who entered primary school in 2019 will work in a job that doesn’t exist yet: 2 in 3
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15 WebWork
A WEBHEAD WINTER WHATSITS
The commercial email service we used until recently went belly-up. It would have cost a small fortune to “recover” our data.
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18 WORKING FOR A LIVING
THE FLAGGING LIFE
I’ve seen people actually hold their heads in their hands when I flag them to stop.
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31 Poetry
shooed out
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40 WORKING FOR A LIVING
THE ANGEL OF OMAHA
All the things you don’t want. Deceit. Blood. Injuries. Addiction. Ground zero in the North American Opiate Crisis.
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42 Excerpt
TAKING OUR PLACE: STORIES FROM LEADERS OF CANADA’S NURSES UNION MOVEMENT
The high times carry the low, I’ve always felt that if people have the facts, there can be a positive outcome.
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44 Reviews
HUSTLING VERSE
A brilliantly diverse, stunningly smart, brutally honest, and deliciously dirty poetry collection.
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MADE IN BANGLADESH
Filmmaker Rubaiyat Hossain delves into the complex lives of women whose skilled labour is integral to the world of fast fashion.
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48 Commentary
A Time of Monsters
The old right-left paradigm does not hold under the anxieties currently driving people.
