Toronto's geography played a role in G20 mayhem
Sunday June 27, Canada woke up to saturation media coverage of police trying to reassert themselves as the dominant force in protest-ravaged Toronto. Attention focused on the downtown core, where...
View ArticleSmitherman is not worthy of strategic voting, Toronto deserves better
Saturday, October 23, 2010 Vote for Joe Pantalone as Toronto’s mayor because great cities are built on services, not on tax cuts. Great cities are compassionate homes for their citizens, not a stock...
View ArticleMay Day in Spain: Indignados against austerity
Tuesday, May 1, 2012 Massive May Day demonstrations are expected in Spain. As in Canada, the austerity agenda hits hardest at public services and those who are most at risk. Spain is not Greece, as...
View ArticleMay Day in Madrid: A firsthand account
Wednesday, May 2, 2012 A May Day report from a Canadian in Spain, where this year's May Day protests were the largest in many years, with close to one million people taking part. This is Part II of...
View ArticleMass protests in Spain emblematic of the popular anger in Europe
Monday, May 7, 2012 The last of our three-part report on May Day in Spain: May 1 may have come and gone in Spain but the echoes of the mobilizations still remain. This is the final installment of our...
View ArticleSpain's Indignados mark anniversary with anti-austerity mobilizations
Sunday, May 13, 2012 Across Spain, reports here confirm that hundreds of thousands of people have been marching under the slogan of 'We don't owe; we won't pay.' Yesterday marked the beginning of the...
View ArticleNeoliberalism no more: Making common cause to defeat the Harper agenda
Monday, January 28, 2013 Today, I will be standing up against Harper and his neo-liberal vision for us all as part of a joint day of action called by Idle No More and Common Causes. Change the...
View ArticleWill we let the Right stand in the way of a sensible CPP expansion?
In less than a week’s time, Finance Ministers from across the country will be gathering in Ottawa. We know that the one of the topics they will discuss -- if only because P.E.I.’s Wes Sheridan and...
View ArticleGarment factory workers in Bangladesh need support, solidarity, not boycott
Tuesday, March 1, 2016 The disaster at Rana Plaza in Bangladesh was not an isolated incident. How do we put pressure on the garment industry, who exploit Bangladeshi workers, to pay fair wages and...
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