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Michael Laxer
Aug 17, 20204 min read
Proposed shelter in South Etobicoke faces NIMBY campaign
Against the backdrop of looming mass evictions and attempts to shut a shelter in Midtown Toronto, some in New Toronto want to block a...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 12, 20201 min read
Metro, which slashed $2 hourly wage hike for workers, shows huge profits
The third quarter numbers show soaring profits while wages for frontline workers were cut in June. Just a couple of weeks after Loblaw...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20204 min read
14 reforms urgently needed to combat exploitation of migrant farm workers in Canada: report
UFCW Canada calls "for 14 legislative and regulatory reforms to a system that currently leaves migrant agricultural workers more...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 10, 20203 min read
Petition calling for better back-to-school plan in Saskatchewan gets over 16,200 signatures
The petition has gained remarkable support in just a few days. Public school in Saskatoon. A petition launched by Kirsten J. Fisher and...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 7, 20203 min read
Momentum for a Nobel Peace Prize award to Cuban medical brigades grows
From the famous such as Alice Walker and Noam Chomsky, to 27,000 in Greece and the over 30,000 who signed the Cuba Nobel Prize Campaign's...
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Michael Laxer
Aug 4, 20202 min read
Bolivians mobilize to demand elections
Social movements, trade unions, Indigenous and peasant organizations and other groups have mobilized en masse across Bolivia to protest...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 29, 20203 min read
Report details disturbing increase of food insecurity in Toronto
Among the findings of the Daily Bread Food Bank's report are a 200% increase in new clients and that 28% of clients received the CERB but...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 27, 20204 min read
Cancel the Debt
We hope that this statement will be widely circulated; that it will be taken up by people’s movements to put pressure on governments not...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 24, 20202 min read
NFLD Dominion workers vote to strike as Loblaw tries to downplay profit numbers
Dominion workers vote 94% for a strike mandate. Meanwhile Loblaw tries to claim quarterly profits of $162 million and soaring sales are...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 23, 20203 min read
The "Ontario Line" will never be built: Update
A Toronto City Councillor and MPP are calling for Ford to "come clean" on timelines and costs for his fabled subway. It will almost...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 23, 20202 min read
"The failed experiment of for-profit long-term care must come to an end"
Unions launch "Care not Profits" campaign demanding an end to profit in long-term care in Ontario with petition and powerful new video...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 20, 20203 min read
BLM-TO protesters "held for hours without access to legal counsel"
That they were denied access to legal council by Toronto police is backed up by multiple sources. On the morning of Saturday, July 18,...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 19, 20202 min read
ACLU: "A Constitutional Crisis in Portland"
Photo via the ACLU "While some federal officers had already been in the streets, we now have additional militarized special ops officers...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 18, 20201 min read
Black Lives Matter Toronto rallies to defund the police
"Let's tear down monuments to anti-Blackness and colonialism, including the police system." "Black Lives Matter held a rally and march...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 17, 20202 min read
Toronto area LifeLabs workers join OPSEU
In a victory for workers they voted to unionize despite what OPSEU calls a "heavy-handed union-busting campaign" on the part of the...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 14, 20203 min read
More than a "few bad apples"
Collette Flanagan, founder of Mothers Against Police Brutality in the United States, talks of "a police culture that is an orchard of...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 13, 20201 min read
Washington NFL team changes name
“This is a good decision for the country – not just Native peoples – since it closes a painful chapter of denigration and disrespect...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 11, 20202 min read
Grocery execs deny pandemic wage cut collusion
"What we got...was highly-paid grocery executives insisting they did not collude, and then going on to say – remarkably – virtually the...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 10, 20203 min read
"Nothing is worth more than a person’s life"
Cuban President DÃaz-Canel Bermúdez speaks at the ILO Summit, July 8, 2020 Photo via twitter from May, 2020 Excerpt from Miguel...
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Michael Laxer
Jul 9, 20202 min read
Petition drives organized against Ontario's Bill 184
Groups are demanding that the bill, which makes residential evictions easier, be scrapped and that Toronto Mayor John Tory take action to...
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