The Latest

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  Announcement

  Pitch Briarpatch’s 2022 Labour Issue

  by Saima Desai – 2 min read

  We’re looking for features, investigations, and reviews for our annual labour issue! Pitches are due July 3, 2022.

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  Online-only

  Where there’s smoke, there’s no fire

  by A.J. Withers and Amie Tsang – 8 min read

  New Freedom of Information documents show the City of Toronto’s efforts to control the media narrative around encampment evictions last summer – inflating the number of fires in encampments and using media exclusion zones.

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  Magazine

  Anatomy of an anti-trafficking policy campaign

  by Chanelle Gallant and Elene Lam – 13 min read

  In Newmarket, Asian massage workers have been engaged in a battle with the town council, which is intent on shutting down their businesses by claiming that the workers are both disreputable criminals and sex trafficking victims.

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  Magazine

  The right to return to work

  by Emma Arkell – 9 min read

  At the beginning of the pandemic, the Pacific Gateway and Hilton Metrotown hotels laid off their workers – then refused to hire them back. Hotel workers are fighting for their jobs, and for the future of the hotel industry after the pandemic.