A wildfire of organizing: Sparks from Labor Notes 2022
Chris Smalls addresses attendants at the 2022 Labor Notes Conference. Photo by James Hutt. “The white collar crime syndicate known as Corporate America is hereby put on notice that the…
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The rise and fall of the Green Party
Annamie Paul with Green Party of Canada supporters during the 2019 federal election held in downtown Toronto. Photo courtesy Annamie Paul/Wikimedia Commons. The Green Party of Canada is imploding. In…
A Year for Fare-Free Transit
Yorkdale Station in Toronto. Photo by Matt Wiebe/Flickr. When I made the case last year for fare-free public transit in Ottawa, it seemed like a longshot. What a difference a…
Pushing back on Canada’s war on drug users
Fighting for Space: How a Group of Drug Users Transformed One City’s Struggle with Addiction Travis Lupick Arsenal Pulp Press, 2017 Every night that Overdose Prevention Ottawa ran its illegal…
Why Canada’s overdose crisis is getting worse
Photo by Eric Molina On January 8, staff at an Ottawa community health centre found a woman unconscious and unresponsive in a bathroom. The nurse on duty quickly administered naloxone,…