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• Order #8215 –Order #8215
• Regina’s 92-million-dollar problem –A crisis of underfunded social programs leads to an increased crime rate, which is used to justify ballooning police budgets. Activists are making the case for defunding the police.
• Does Saskatchewan need a citizen watchdog for the police? –A fatal police-involved shooting has prompted calls for Saskatchewan to create an independent citizen oversight body. But what if most civilian committees aren’t made up solely of civilians at all?
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• Striking for the common good –Teachers bargaining for the common good contains the seed of radical change – and I mean “radical” in the same way that Angela Davis uses it, meaning “grasping at the root.”
• The literal – and literary – futures we build –_Briarpatch_ editor Saima Desai talks to two judges of our Writing in the Margins contest about Idle No More and MMIWG, ethical kinship, writing queer sex, and their forthcoming work.
• “At least hookers get wages” –If sex were factored out of the equation, sugaring would look a lot like the precarious gig economy jobs of Uber drivers or bike couriers. And – like in other web-based jobs – sugar babies in Montreal are struggling to develop collective strength with their fellow workers.
• November/December 2019 –Our annual Labour Issue has stories about the risky business of sex work in the gig economy; airport workers organizing in Canada’s biggest workplace; how a Canadian garment company is fleecing women maquila workers in Honduras; the reinstatement of Canada’s prison farms; a planned economy for a just transition; Alberta’s…
• The cost of a T-shirt –In Honduras, women maquila workers are fighting back against the multinational garment companies that they say are endangering their health and safety.
• Milking prison labour –Canada’s prison farms are being reopened. But when prisoners will be paid pennies a day, and the fruits of their labour will likely be exported for profit, there’s little to celebrate.
• Planes, trains, and workers’ gains –Toronto Pearson Airport is Canada’s largest workplace. There, workers are building up an organization that aims to match the airport’s power.
• Taking sex workers seriously –How have restrictive new laws like America’s FOSTA/SESTA and Canada’s PCEPA impacted sex workers’ labour conditions? Lindsay Blewett reviews _Red Light Labour: Sex Work Regulation, Agency, and Resistance_
• Bringing back the beat –In mainstream media, labour journalism has been replaced by financial reporting and business sections. But journalism students are raising the labour beat from the grave.
• Order #8209 –Order #8209
• Khaleeli, Bee –Bee Khaleeli is a Montreal-based student and writer with extensive experience in sexual violence prevention and support work, particularly in university settings. They are pursuing a bachelor’s degree in history and gender studies at McGill.
• Ponting, Samantha –Samantha Ponting is an organizer, writer, and editor living in Vancouver, B.C., on the unceded lands of the Tsleil-Waututh, Squamish, and Musqueam First Nations. She currently works in communications for a public-sector labour union.
• Weber, Barret –Barret Weber is a member of Friends of Medicare and is a union member in CUPE 3911 with Athabasca University.
• Loeppky, John –John Loeppky is a disabled freelance writer currently living in Regina, Saskatchewan. He has published work with Passage, the Media Co-op, CBC, and FiveThirtyEight.