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Online-onlyCommunity without accountability at CCGSD
Former staff are raising allegations against the former executive director at one of Canada’s biggest LGBTQ nonprofits, saying he made the workplace unpredictable and unhealthy. It raises the question: where does a community end, and a workplace begin?
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MagazineWhat do we do when humanitarians are the disaster?
AidToo is exposing abuses of power at aid organizations. Two stories from Canadian NGOs show what it takes to blow the whistle, and how the industry responds to accusations.
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Online-onlyCollective action is essential
From socially-distanced protests to virtual union drives, five vital signs of worker organizing during COVID-19
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MagazineWhen memory outlives
Today, Tamil people are Toronto’s working class as well as, increasingly, its elite – but behind the Canadian Tamil community’s historic struggles and resistance lies the fact that most of us arrived in Toronto fleeing a genocide
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Is Saskatchewan doing enough for workers during COVID-19?
Saskatchewan’s freezing evictions and Trudeau’s promising $2,000 to laid-off workers. But activists are calling for cancelling rent and more protections for workers.
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MagazineCanada and the crisis of capitalism
150 years ago, Karl Marx observed that crisis is encoded in capitalism’s DNA. Today, Canadian capitalism has entered another period of serious volatility – one that may culminate in a crisis even deeper than that of 2008.
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Online-onlyOshawa could be the engine of a Green New Deal in Canada
Workers want to nationalize the General Motors plant and build electric vehicles for Canada Post
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Sask Dispatch BriefsFreshCo contracts “a complete downgrade” for workers
As four Sask. Safeway stores convert to FreshCos, workers are looking at lower wages, fewer entitlements, and fewer benefits
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MagazineA just transition requires a planned economy. But whose plan?
Corporate, for-profit planning, aided and violently enforced by the settler colonial state of Canada, will not bring about a just transition.
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MagazineResisting Uber’s rhetoric
If we accept the premise that “algorithms” (not capitalists) are asserting control over the future of work, it will be difficult to hold anyone to account for the human costs of unchecked automation. Finn LeMaitre reviews Uberland by Alex Rosenblat.
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MagazineWe Won’t Back Down
The Fight for $15 in Ontario reminds us that when employers go on the attack or cry wolf about economic crises, workers need not back down.
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MagazineAfter Brazil’s Worst Mining Disaster
How workers and activists are rebuilding their local economy in the aftermath of one of the world’s most devastating mining tragedies.
