Workers have been reluctant to return to work and risk exposing themselves and their families to infection because of the relative security that the Canada Emergency Relief Benefit (CERB) offered.…
LeeAnna Murphy, Spangdahlem Military Clothing Sales store manager, disinfects her work area at Spangdahlem Air Base, Germany, April 30, 2020. Photo courtesy Spangdahlem Air Base. On May 23, an article…
Graffiti adorns a boarded-up restaurant in New York City. Photo by Anthony Quintano/Flickr. One might have hoped that the very severity of the threat posed by the pandemic would compel…
Street vendor working during the early stages of the COVID-19 pandemic in Qingdao. Photo by Gauthie Delecroix/Flickr. It is a principle of historical materialism that social consciousness reflects social being…
A man walks down an empty Yonge Street in Toronto. Photo by Myles Herod/Instagram. In the conditions of extreme economic dislocation that the COVID-19 pandemic has created, a crisis of…
A face mask adorns a statue of St. Francis of Assisi in the town of San Fiorano in Italy. Photo by Marzio Toniolo. When people emerge from their homes after…
Man blows a shofar at a rally in London against anti-Semitism in the UK Labour Party. Photo by Getty Images. Bill 168, the Combating Antisemitism Act, was introduced in the…
Homeless camp in East Vancouver, September 2017. Photo by Kenny McDonald (Flickr). Last year, I stepped down as an organizer with the Ontario Coalition Against Poverty (OCAP) after 28 years…
In Toronto and across Canada, homelessness has reached proportions that no rational and just society would tolerate and it constitutes an emergency situation. The Trump Administration, seeing levels of destitution…
Free Palestine protest at Parliament Hill, Ottawa, July 2014 • Photo by Tony Webster (Flickr) On June 25, Canada’s Minister of Canadian Heritage and Multiculturalism announced that the Trudeau government’s…
Photo by Doug Ford/Twitter The federal system under which the Canadian state operates, places a great deal of decision making power in the hands of its provinces. While the dubiously…
Photo by Chrystia Freeland (Twitter) Anyone who still entertains any illusions in the ‘progressive’ nature of the Trudeau Government of Canada, would have been shocked to witness the Minister of…
Photo by William Murphy The greatly intensified austerity that has been imposed in the UK since 2010 has been looked to with considerable approval by right wing imitators. Among countries…
Photo by Doug Ford/Ford Nation The decision of the new Tory Government in Ontario to terminate the basic income (BI) pilot project that their Liberal predecessors had set in motion,…
Photo by Eli Christman Up until now, the concept of Basic Income (BI) has enjoyed a greater history of being proposed than of being implemented. We may well be approaching…
Photo by Jason Hargrove Both the Trudeau Liberals in Ottawa and the Wynne Government at Queen’s Park in Toronto have been making noises of late on the subject of Basic…
Photo by CUPE Ontario As we go into the New Year with Justin Trudeau’s Liberal Government in place, it’s worth noting that the struggle against poverty in Toronto now unfolds…
Photo by Ivaan Kotulsky The Mayor’s Office in Toronto is today occupied by a much slicker operation than it was during the years of dysfunctional, bigoted buffoonery that unfolded under…
Photo by Andy Burgess The twin agendas of urban redevelopment and austerity have increased the scale of the homeless crisis in Toronto. Over 4,000 people cram into the emergency shelters…
